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New York City Subway station
149th Street–Grand Concourse
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Station Information
Line IRT White Plains Road Line
Services 2 5 (1234)
Transfers 4 at 149th Street-Grand Concourse (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
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Platforms Side platforms
Tracks 2
Other
Borough Bronx
Opened July 10, 1905
Next North Third Avenue-149th Street
2 5 (1234)
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Express:
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Express:
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Next South Lenox Avenue Line:
135th Street
2 3 (1234)
Jerome Avenue Line:
138th Street-Grand Concourse
4 5 (1234)
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149th Street–Grand Concourse is a subway station in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

The lower level of the station, which was originally known as Mott Avenue, was opened on July 10, 1905. It was the first subway station to be opened in the Bronx. The station was designed with a high rounded ceiling similar to 168th Street on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line, as well as elevators (now closed) and a pedestrian bridge between the 2 platforms (also closed). It has two side platforms.

Nearly all of the original mosaic Mott Avenue name tablets have all 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, remains 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 are no plans by the MTA to repair or restore this name tablet.

This station is served by the 2 Line and 5 Line.

The upper level station was built as part of the Dual Contracts and was opened on July 17, 1918, to serve the newly built IRT Jerome Avenue Line. This construction also included track connections to the lower level station.


New York City Subway (official site)
Services 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A B C D E F G J L M N Q R V W Z
Shuttles (S) 42nd Street • Franklin Avenue • Rockaway Park
Unused/defunct 8 9 10 11 12 13 H K P T U X Y • JFK Express
BMT: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Shuttles: 63rd Street • Bowling Green • Culver • Grand Street • Other
Divisions IRT • BMT • IND (Second System)
Lists Lines • Services • Stations • Terminals • Inter-division connections • Inter-division transfers • Yards
Miscellaneous Accessibility • Dual Contracts • Chaining • History • Nomenclature • Rolling stock • Straphanger
Other transit in NYC Amtrak • LIRR • Metro-North • NJ Transit • PATH • Staten Island Railway • AirTrain • Roosevelt Island Tramway