161st Street - Yankee Stadium (New York City Subway) - Thursday 12th June 2008

161st Street - Yankee Stadium is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line and the underground IND Concourse Line. Located at the intersection of 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, it is served by:

4 trains at all times
D trains at all times except rush hours in the peak direction
B trains during rush hours

Yankee Stadium is outside and many Bronx County courts, government facilities, and shopping districts are a short walk to the east. (Yankee Stadium is also accessible via the MTA's Metro-North via the Yankees-E. 153rd Street station.)

161st Street -- Yankee Stadium is a local station on the IND Concourse Line that has three tracks and two side platforms.

When originally built in 1933 as 161st Street -- River Avenue, paper tickets were used to transfer to the Jerome Avenue Line; this method was used until the 1950s, when the indoor escalators were built. The full-time mezzanine is at 161st Street and River Avenue with four street staircases. The part-time entrance is at Walton Avenue and has two street staircases and a passageway to 161st Street. Before the renovation, there was a full length mezzanine, with Transit Bureau Offices located to one side. After the renovation, the NYPD area was expanded, and public areas inside fare control were sealed, thus dividing the mezzanine into two separate areas. A few staircases to the platforms were also sealed and removed.

The 2002 artwork here is called Wall-Slide by Vito Acconci and Sea of Tranquility by Helene Brandt.

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