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Third Avenue–149th Street is a station in The Bronx of the New York City Subway . It is served by the 2 Line and 5 Line . The station, which has 2 tracks with 2 side platforms, has been fully renovated and now includes elevators and platform level fare control on each of the two wall platforms. There is a crossunder between the 2 platforms, but it has been closed to the public for many years. Safety is one of the reasons cited for doing this. Each platform has a bus transfer booth with separate fare controls; the bus transfer was used for the connection to the BX-55 bus which replaced the 3rd Avenue El in The Bronx . The extra booths and turnstiles, while still present, are no longer in use, having closed in July 1997 when the MetroCard free transfer policy went into effect. The tile has dark red and dark green/gray lower accents and dark red upper border. There is a mosaic artwork, installed in 1996, entitled ''Una Raza, Un Mundo, Universo'' (''One Race, One World, One Universe''), by Jose Ortega . Four such mosaics are on each platform near the fare control. The token booth is built into the wall. Prior to the renovation, terra cotta "3" plaques were on the platform walls. One of these has been preserved at the New York Transit Museum . North of the station the track ascends to become an elevated structure for the trip to East 180th Street . This is the longest section of elevated track built under Interborough Rapid Transit Contract I. Rising to the El level one can still see the shortened supports for former connections the Third Avenue El line. |
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