182-183 Streets
182-183 Streets, should really be renamed 182 Street, after the exit to 183 Street was closed with it’s four staircases slabbed over sometime between 1999 and 2002. The station has two side platforms for the three track Concourse Line and is skipped by D trains during peak direction rush hours. Each platform has a maroon trimline with a black border and 182-183 Street name tablets with a marron border. Under the trimline there are ‘182s’ towards the 182 Street end of the station (there are more of these because 182 Street’s exit is over the platform, while 183 Street’s was accessed via an extension of the mezzanine passageway).
For exits the station opened with 3 different sets, only 1 is still open roughly to the middle of the train. The station also has a nearly full-length mezzanine (it isn’t over the southernmost 1 to 2 cars) that is mostly still open when it’s above the station platform. Starting at the northern end of the mezzanine, closed streetstairs once led out to all 4 corners of 183 Street, these led to their own now closed fare control area before a 200 foot passageway finally led to the northern end of the mezzanine above the platforms. Here a staircase that is currently closed by a gate leads down to each platform near it’s northern end.
Soon the mezzanine opens, with a closed gate and fencing providing views of the abandoned and closed portion of the mezzanine. There are two more staircases down to each platform with original station department cleaning and now closed public restrooms (still used by employees) between them. Next the station’s only bank of turnstiles is reached by the token booth. From here are the station’s only open exits short passageways lead east and west from the mezzanine to four total streetstairs, one at each corner of 182 Street and the Grand Concourse.
The mezzanine continues in a split configuration with a central passageway outside of fare control that is now closed off, that once provided a way for passengers to enter the subway at the 182 Street turnstiles from the now closed southern-most station exit. Here are two staircases up from each platform, each of these sets of staircases are exit only and leads to a single High Exit turnstile at their northern ends to each exit, at the southern end is a still intact but locked High Exit Turnstile. Passengers can peer through the fencing into the closed area at a single directional mosaic that says Concourse, East Side or West Side with arrows in each direction on the southern wall of the mezzanine. This closed exit area has two dark passageways with gentle ramps leading up to two now slabbed over streetstairs one out each side of the Grand Concourse, just north of where Anthony Avenue merges into the Grand Concourse from the east, between 182 and 181 Streets.
Photos 1-3: July 29, 2004; 4-15: March 24, 2007; 16-43: January 6, 2011
