231 Street (1) - The SubwayNut

231 Street is the most southern station fully in the Bronx on the 1 train. The station was an "All Stop" During the skip-stop era with both 1 and 9 trains stopping to service the large Kingsbridge Shopping district, and bus connections to Riverdale.

The design of the station itself is a regular Broadway elevated station with two side platforms on the three-tracked line. The platforms are slightly offset from each other with the downtown platform running slightly farther south of the uptown one. Each platform has canopied sections around the station house running for about three cars, towards the middle of each platform.

The station received the 1990 renovation that the rest of the elevated 1 train stations also received. The station was one of the designated "100 Key Station's" for ADA accessibility so a further renovation was done around 2008, this renovation gave the station the green and cream colored windscreens and stained glass windows that are typical of other renovated elevated stations of this era (the entire IRT Jerome Avenue Line 4 train stations are very similar).

For exit's the uptown platform contains 3 High Entrance/Exit turnstiles, and three regular Exit Only Turnstiles. There is also an automated door that can be opened and closed with Autogate MetroCards for passengers using the elevator. From here streetstairs lead down to Broadway (alongside the elevated) at the NE and SE corners of Broadway and 231st Street. The street elevator is at the SE corner along 231 Street a few steps away from Broadway.

The downtown platform contains the open station house, which is painted white and directly along the platform, inside the station house has been renovated with green support beams and a white roof. Passengers entering via stairs, at the NW and SW corners of Broadway, directly next to emergency exits along the platform, to enter the subway passengers must walk away from the platform about 10 feet to reach doors - there is a passageway that continues to this platform's elevator to the SW corner - into the station house before going through the turnstiles to board trains.
Photos 1-7: September 7, 2003; 8: June 24, 2004; 9-36: December 31, 2010; 37-43: March 26, 2013; 44-47: July 25, 2015;

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The exits on the northbound platform at 231 Street (1,9), are only high exit turnstiles. There is no way to board a northbound train.

The No Entry staircase down from the northbound platform at 231 Street

An old 'DOWNTOWN' sign above a staircase to the station house at 231 Street

Looking west the view from the downtown platform 231 Street (1,9)

Looking north up the tracks at 231 Street (1,9)

Looking north up the tracks at 231 Street (1,9)

Looking south down the tracks at 231 Street (1,9)

Crain car #253 at 231 Street (1,9) with construction workers

A repainted green and modernized fence on the platform at 231 Street

An Uptown R62A 1 train leaves 231 Street

A crowd of passengers head towards the exit as a R62A 1 train leaves 231 Street

Approaching the station's high Turnstile's only exit area

High Turnstiles, and a sign for the elevator at the Uptown 231 Street platform exit

High Exit Turnstiles out to 231 Street and Broadway there is a passageway connecting the exits to both sides of 231 Street outside fare control in front of the no longer in public use former Uptown platform station house

Heading down one of the staircases from platform to street at 231 Street

The upper elevator landing along the uptown platform at 231 Street

Looking off the elevated walkways that are the station entrances at the green modern elevator tower for 242 Street trains at 231 Street

AN entrance to the Uptown platform, the ornate grillwork has been preserved, including the sign for Uptown

A tall subway globe pylon and entrance to the Uptown platform

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