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}} 190th Street (originally 190th Street – Overlook Terrace) is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, served by the A train at all times. It is located on Fort Washington Avenue near its intersection with Cabrini Boulevard at Margaret Corbin Circle, about 3 blocks north of 190th Street. The station is close to Fort Tryon Park and the Mother Cabrini Shrine in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights. The Cloisters medieval art museum, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is located in the park, about a 10-minute walk north from the station's Fort Washington Avenue exit. An additional exit through the side of the hill leads to Bennett Avenue and provides access to the Broadway Valley area of Washington Heights. ==Station layout== The station has two tracks and two side platforms. It is below the surface due to the very high hills of Washington Heights. This places the 190th Street station as one of the deepest stations in the entire system by distance to ground level – it is even deeper than the 34th Street – Hudson Yards station, the deepest station in the system by elevation below sea level.〔("The Deepest and Highest Subway Stations in NYC: 191st St, 190th Street, Smith & 9th" ) on ''Untapped Cities'' (June 26, 2013)〕 (By comparison, 34th Street – Hudson Yards is only below the surface, which is about above sea level.) Because of this, there is a bank of elevators to Fort Washington Avenue. Despite the fact that this is an extremely deep station, however, the Bennett Avenue entrance is actually at a lower elevation than the platforms, so the ramp slopes down. The elevators can be used by pedestrians going between Bennett and Fort Washington Avenues without paying a fare. Additionally, Dyckman Street, the next station north, is only one level below the surface, in contrast to the 190th Street station. 190th Street is the third-to-last station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line proceeding northbound. The station boasts platforms in length and in width. Located below ground level, the station has a double-barrel, vaulted ceiling supported by an arcade in the center. Concrete retaining walls also side the station and fit into the structure. The station maintains three elevators from the mezzanine in one tower at its eastern end. There is access from Bennett Avenue via a tunnel.〔 The 207th Street-bound platform contains an exit-only (one turnstile and one gate) ramp that bypasses fare control and leads to the passageway to the Bennett Avenue entrance. The station is not wheelchair accessible (non-ADA-compliant) because access from the fare control area to the platforms is only possible via stairways. The nearest accessible station is 175th Street. The elevators to the platforms still utilize elevator operators, one of the few stations in the system to do so.〔(The Subway’s Elevator Operators, a Reassuring Amenity of Another Era ). By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM. Published: April 28, 2011. The New York Times.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「190th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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