The 200th Street station was a local station on the demolished
IRT Third Avenue Line
The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railwa ...
in
the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
,
New York City
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, near the
New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...
. The station was opened on October 4, 1920, and had three tracks and two
side platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platform ...
s. It was also one block south of the
Botanical Garden New York Central Railroad station. The next stop to the north was
204th Street. The next stop to the south was
Fordham Road–190th Street. The station was closed on April 29, 1973, along with the rest of the IRT Third Avenue Line.
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Railway stations in the United States opened in 1920
1920 establishments in New York City
1973 disestablishments in New York (state)
IRT Third Avenue Line stations
Former elevated and subway stations in the Bronx
Bedford Park, Bronx
Railway stations in the United States closed in 1973
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