137th Street/City College (IRT West Side Line)
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137th Street/City College Station · Opened 10/27/1904Local station with three tracks and two side platforms. This station underwent 'modernization' in the 1970s into the present "restroom" style tilework and no theme icons or emblems. To make the walls smooth for the new tiles all the old moldings and reliefs were ripped out. One single relic, a ceramic cartouche of a three-faced figure, has been preserved at the New York Transit Museum. The three faces represent "Respice", "Adspice", and "Prospice", and is an emblem of nearby City College. There is a persistent local interest in restoring the station to a motif sympathetic to the original design.
Some of the schist excavated from the subway in this section of the IRT was used for facing on the buildings of City College.
Up to at least the late 1970s some weekday mid-day trains
terminated at this station. There is a tower on the north end of the
northbound platform, which is occasionally used to give some relief to
the mainline tower at 240th St Yard, during general orders when this
station is used as a terminal. Just north of this station is an
underground lay up yard of five tracks in addition to the three tracks
of the mainline. Looking south from the platforms one can see
daylight from the portal at 135th Street leading to the Manhattan
Valley Viaduct.
Artwork: Fossils, Steve Wood (1988)
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 9/6/2009
Notes: Phone/restrooms sign.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Platform/trackway view.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2273
Photo by: Leonard Wilson
Date: 11/21/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 4/21/2007
Notes: Platform view.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Route: Fan Trip
Car: Low-V (Museum Train) 5483
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 10/27/2004
Notes: Train in regular passenger service, technically not a "fan trip".
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Route: Fan Trip
Car: Low-V (Museum Train) 5443
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 10/27/2004
Notes: Train in regular passenger service, technically not a "fan trip".
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 6/18/2000
Notes: Mosaic/cartouche in Transit Museum exhibit
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Photo by: Richard Brome
Date: 3/18/1999
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 6/20/1998
Notes: Restored tablet-Heins & LaFarge
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 137th Street/City College
Collection of: Ed Levine
Notes: Postcard: "Cromwell Apartments, Broadway & 137th St., N.Y. City"
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