One of the Bronx’s oldest subway stations gets a $123M makeover after years of delays

The MTA is wrapping up a $123 million upgrade to one of the Bronx’s oldest subway stations.

The project — which faced nearly three years of delays — added elevators and restored the 120-year-old headhouse at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station.

When it opened in 1905, the station was called Mott Avenue after a street that no longer exists. The original station had elevators, but they were removed in the 1970s and it’s remained inaccessible to wheelchair users ever since…

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