Kingsbridge Road station (IND Concourse Line)

the station at Kingsbridge Road & Jerome Avenue
New York City Subway station in the Bronx

The Kingsbridge Road station is an express station on the IND Concourse Line of the New York City Subway. Located within the Fordham Manor and Kingsbridge Heights neighborhoods in the Bronx, it is served by the D train at all times and the B train during rush hours only. It has three tracks and two island platforms.

This station was built as part of the IND Concourse Line, which was one of the original lines of the city owned Independent Subway System (IND). The route of the Concourse Line was approved to Bedford Park Boulevard on June 12, 1925 by the New York City Board of Transportation. Construction of the line began in July 1928. The station opened on July 1, 1933, along with the rest of the Concourse subway.

GStreet level196th Street exit/entranceB1Upper mezzanineFare control (not ADA accessible)B2Platform levelNorthbound local← toward rush hours (Terminus)← toward (Bedford Park Boulevard)Island platform Peak direction express ← PM rush toward Norwood–205th Street (Bedford Park Boulevard) AM rush toward →Island platform Southbound local toward rush hours (Fordham Road) → toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (Fordham Road) →B3Lower mezzanineKingsbridge Road exit/entrance, fare control, station agent Elevator at northeast corner of Grand Concourse (service road) and East Kingsbridge Road. The station has three tracks and two island platforms. The tile band in this station is Marine Blue and vent chambers are also present. White walls exist at the two northernmost platform staircases to the Kingsbridge Road exit. It is not known why they were built. The station was renovated to comply with ADA standards, with one elevator from each platform to the Kingsbridge Road mezzanine underneath it, and another from the mezzanine to the northeast corner of the Concourse and Kingsbridge Road. The elevators were opened in December 2014.

The station has one mezzanine above the platforms and another below them. The part time and unstaffed entrance is at 196th Street on the north end and contains two street stairs to the northwest and southeast corners of the intersection, and one stair to each platform. The current booth setup (full time at Kingsbridge; part time at 196th Street) was instituted in 2013. This was also the original setup. From a booth operation switch in the 1990s until the switch in 2013, the part time side was at the current full time side (Kingsbridge) and vice versa. The current setup was created in order to accommodate new elevators in the station. During the summer of 2019, the underpass was the center of unsanitary conditions, a hangout spot for the homeless and a hotspot for fights and drug addicts. As a safety measure, the walkway was sealed off to the public on July 10, 2020. Both exits to Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse also have closed passageways to both southern corners of the same intersection. They are sealed on street level. The passageway to the southwestern corner is blocked by a metal wall, and the one to the southeastern corner was walled off following the installation of the elevator shaft to the northeast corner.