242 St-Van Cortlandt Park
242 Street-Van Cortlandt Park is the terminus of the 1 train. The station is located on an elevated structure with two tracks, ending in bumper blocks visible from the platforms. Departing trains can leave from every track, with trains using crossover switches just before the station, where the third unused middle express track also ends. Just before the station is where the lead tracks into the 240 Street yard are located; an elevated train yard just west of Broadway.
The design of the terminus station is an island platform for the two track terminating tracks that are normally used both entering and exiting passengers with no longer in passenger use exit side platforms running along each track. These side platforms can only accomidate 8 and a half modern subway cars so they can't be used today.
These platforms were renovated in 2015-2016 and today have Green and cream windscreens, with lots of green accent lines on the windscreens, forming boxy squares. The platforms are canopied for the front-most 6 cars of terminating trains, after this canopied section, trains cross under a large crew quarters building, it consists of a single main story with grey corrugated metal sides, and red accents perched above the station's tracks and platforms. The main door into it, near the southern end of the island platform has a black circluar sign on it with a large 1 in the middle of it and "We are No. One·The Pride is Back." There is a secondard staircase down to the southern island platform.
Beyond this building at the very end of the island platform, beyond where trains stop, is a smaller and older looking two story building containing a crew waiting room (the core of the larger building are crew locker rooms). This is a two-story building, the first story along the platform and second story one-level above the platform.
For exits, the station has a single station house painted red that provides the main access with turnstles and a token booth. The station house and exits are located just beyond the bumper blocks of the platforms at platform level. Next to each side of the station house is also a High Exit Turnstile (near the start of the side platforms) so exiting passengers can bypass going inside. After exiting, there are two staircases from the west immediately down to the west side of Broadway, just north of 242 Street. To reach the east side of Broadway, there is a footbridge (the station is located above the eastern side of Broadway, not the middle of this wide street) that leads down to two more streetstairs alongside Van Cortlandt Park. Although these streetstairs are adjacent to parkland, they are heavily used by passengers connecting to Bee-Line bus routes that lead to Yonkers and other parts of Westchester County, who's border is 1.5 miles north of the station. Photos 1-15: December 21, 2003; 16: October 30, 2004; 17-20: April 25, 2004; 21-25: December 27, 2012; 26-31: March 26, 2013; 32-35: July 19, 2013; 36: November 13, 2013; 37-40: March 13, 2014; ; 41 & 42: November 6, 2004;
Station Subway Lines (1989-2005)
