The Parkchester station is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. It is located above Hugh J. Grant Circle in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx, where East 177th Street (the Cross Bronx Expressway service road), Metropolitan Avenue, and Westchester Avenue intersect. The station is served by the 6 train at all times and the <6> train during weekdays in the peak direction.

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Parkchester  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
Address	Hugh J. Grant Circle Bronx, NY
Borough	The Bronx
Locale	Parkchester, Unionport
Coordinates	40°50′0″N 73°51′39.5″W
Division	A (IRT)[1]
Line	IRT Pelham Line
Services	6  (all times) <6>  (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)​
Transit	NYCT Bus: Bx4, Bx4A, Bx11, Bx36, Bx39, Q44 SBS MTA Bus: BxM6[2]
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1920; 103 years ago (1920-05-30)[3]
Accessible	not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Former/other names	Parkchester–East 177th Street East 177th Street–Parkchester East 177th Street
Traffic
2023	3,295,956[4]  17.3%
Rank	99 out of 423[4]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Castle Hill Avenue 6  <6> ​ toward Pelham Bay Park Express Hunts Point Avenue <6> toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall Local St. Lawrence Avenue 6  toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall
Non-revenue services and lines Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Pelham Bay Park express no service
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Pelham Bay Park to Castle Hill Avenue to St. Lawrence Avenue to Hunts Point Avenue
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

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By passenger count, Parkchester was the third-busiest station in the Bronx in 2017, behind 161st Street–Yankee Stadium and Third Avenue–149th Street, and the busiest station on the Pelham Line.

Parkchester station opened on May 30, 1920.^[3]

This station was rehabilitated in 2010.

In 2019, as part of an initiative to increase the accessibility of the New York City Subway system, the MTA announced that it would install elevators at the Parkchester station as part of the MTA's 2020–2024 Capital Program.^[5] In December 2022, the MTA announced that it would award a $146 million contract for the installation of eight elevators across four stations, including Parkchester. The work would include demolishing an existing escalator to make way for an elevator.^[6]

P Platform level	Southbound local	← toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall (St. Lawrence Avenue)
	Island platform
	Peak-direction express	← AM rush toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall (Hunts Point Avenue) → PM rush toward Pelham Bay Park (Castle Hill Avenue) → →(No service: Pelham Bay Park) →
	Island platform
	Northbound local	→ PM rush termination track → → toward Pelham Bay Park other times (Castle Hill Avenue) →
M	Mezzanine	Station agent, MetroCard vending machines, fare control
G	Street level	Exit/entrance

Parkchester is an express station with three tracks and two island platforms. The 6 stops on the outer local tracks while the <6> stops on the center express track. The 6 train serves the station at all times, and the <6> runs during weekdays in the peak direction.^[7] The next stop to the south is Hunts Point Avenue for express trains and St. Lawrence Avenue for local trains, while the next stop to the north is Castle Hill Avenue.^[8] There are 1950s-style mushroom-shaped lights at the end of the platforms and the staircases to the mezzanine are sheltered. Just north of the station is a signal tower which was used until the late 1990s, when a new master tower was created in Westchester Yard.

During weekdays, some 6 local trains terminate at Parkchester. All local trains end their runs at Parkchester during the PM rush hour, when the <6> express operates, while selected local trains terminate there during the AM rush hour and the evening.^[7] After discharging passengers on the northbound local track, terminating trains use the center track past switches north of the station as a pocket track to relay.

All trains continuing on the IRT Pelham Line north of this station make all subsequent stops, these stations are only served by the <6> in the peak direction when it is operating, and the 6 at all other times.

• Entrance to Parkchester station
• The lampposts at the station, which still read "E 177 ST"
• Facing a sunset on the northbound local track
• An R142A 6 local train approaching Parkchester