(“Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street” is the northern terminal station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway)
Located at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway (US Route 9) in the Bronx, it is served by the 1 train at all times. It is adjacent to Van Cortlandt Park to the east, Manhattan College, and the 240th Street Yard of the subway system, along with the affluent neighborhoods of Fieldston and Riverdale to the west.
It was built from a design by subway architects Heins and Lafarge. Today it is the only remaining Victorian Gothic elevated terminal station on the subway, and contains the subway’s only remaining scrolled station sign among its decorative flourishes.
(in 2005, it was listed on the “National Register of Historic Places”)