149 St-Grand Concourse — Local services in New York

149th Street–Grand Concourse is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Jerome Avenue Line and the IRT White Plains Road Line. Located at East 149th Street and Grand Concourse in Mott Haven and Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The complex is served by the:

2 and 4 trains at all times 5 train at all times except late nights on weekdays 149th Street–Grand Concourse on the IRT White Plains Road Line has two tracks and two side platforms. There is a high rounded ceiling that is visible at the west end of the station and is similar in design to those of 168th Street and 181st Street stations on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. The IRT White Plains Road Line platforms are located on the lower level of this two level complex. There are elevators (now closed) and a pedestrian bridge between the two platforms (also closed) on this level at the southern end of the platforms.

Originally opened as Mott Avenue on July 10, 1905, 149th Street–Grand Concourse was the first subway station to be opened in the Bronx. The original headhouse is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Today, all of the original mosaic "Mott Avenue" name tablets have been covered over with metal "149 St–Grand Concourse" signs. Only one name tablet, located on the downtown platform between the last two staircases at the northern end, remained uncovered and survived intact until a few years into the 21st century when a serious water leak after very heavy rainfall caused individual tiles to separate from the wall and fall off. There were no known plans by the MTA to repair or restore this name tablet. In the fall of 2011, the MTA covered this name tablet with a metal "149 St–Grand Concourse" sign.

South of the station, there are track connections to the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. The line splits and makes a sharp turn to merge with the Jerome Avenue Line just south of the upper level station. There is a huge amount of train traffic in this area, and the connections' turns are so sharp that 5 trains using the connections usually get delayed for about a minute. The White Plains Road Line continues straight under the Harlem River and merges with the IRT Lenox Avenue Line at 142nd Street Junction.

From the time of the opening of the station in 1905 until 2002, there were no columns between the northbound and southbound tracks, allowing an unobstructed view across the station. Thin supports for communications conduit have since...

The 149st Grand Concourse train station is a place where you can get connected to the 4 train to Woodlawn, 2 and 5 train to Flatbush Avenue and Gunhill, Drye etc. All trains to uptown, downtown, Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Some times getting a direction may be a bit difficult expecially for naive transit passangers , don't hesitate to ask questions and New Yorkers are friendly people easy to provide support when requested in a respective...

I mean it is a little confusing see if u come back from 149th st on 3rd avene u wll see a elevator DO NOT GO ON IT if u want to go back to MANHATTAN it will take u to tha downtown side not tha manhattan side and u can not transfer out to get to tha other u have to get out and go back up again and pay twice . i know from expierence because that is what i did so i know what i'm...