Above Broadway at the jct. of W. 242nd St., Bronx, New York. County/parish: Bronx.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 30, 2005. NRIS 05000226.
Part of New York City Subway System MPS (NRIS 64500900).
1 contributing structure.
The Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station is the northern terminal station of the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. Located at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway (US Route 9) in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 1 train at all times. It is adjacent to Van Cortlandt Park to the east, Manhattan University, and the 240th Street Yard of the subway system, along with the affluent neighborhoods of Fieldston and Riverdale to the west.
It was built from a design by subway architects Heins & LaFarge. Today it is the only remaining Victorian Gothic elevated terminal station on the subway, and contains the subway's only remaining scrolled station sign among its decorative flourishes. In 2005, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312120