Sedgwick Avenue station
Sedgwick Avenue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Former New York City Subway station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Sedgwick Avenue station, c. 1918 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Address | Sedgwick Avenue near 161st Street Bronx, NY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Borough | The Bronx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Highbridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°49′52.8″N 73°55′56.6″W / 40.831333°N 73.932389°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IRT Ninth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | None (abandoned) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | August 31, 1958[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2023 | [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | out of 423 155th Street | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sedgwick Avenue station was an elevated, ground level and underground station on the Bronx extension of the IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Highbridge, Bronx, New York City.
History
The station was built to connect to the
155th Street terminal and New York Central Railroad Hudson Division trains that stopped at the new (1918) platforms at this location. The station opened on July 1, 1918, and remained in use by the Polo Grounds Shuttle until 1958. The Putnam Division of the New York Central also ended service in 1958.[4]
Station layout
The station was built extending from the tunnel entrance to Jerome Avenue on the side of a cliff on a steel structure spanning the tracks of
New York City and Northern Railroad. The station street entrance and mezzanine was above the tracks on Sedgwick Avenue. The west end of the platforms on the steel structure were constructed of wood. The east end of the concrete platforms extended into the tunnel for about a car length. A connecting passageway and stairways from the west end of the northbound platform led to the platforms on the New York Central Hudson Division tracks to permit transfers to that division's trains.[5]
The station site, in 2010, has ruins of the platforms and the track-bed into the tunnel entrance on Sedgwick Avenue. In late 2022, the station was filled in and sealed off as part of the I-87 reconstruction project.
The tunnel from Sedgwick Avenue to
Harlem–148th Street in Manhattan, which had been proposed by the New York City Board of Transportation
in 1940. A footbridge to West 161st Street remains.
Gallery
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West end of platforms -
Inside the station
References
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ "Polo Grounds El is Doomed". New York Daily News. August 20, 1958. p. C8. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ Polo Grounds Shuttle
- ^ See New York Central Hudson Division Sedgwick Avenue Station in Forgotten BronxTransit
External links
- "Ninth Avenue Express". Station Reporter. Archived from the original on 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- Sedgwick Avenue station photos, diagrams and tour guide, by Joseph Brennan, 2002