Claremont Parkway station
New York City Subway station in The Bronx (closed 1973)
The Claremont Parkway station, signed as "Claremont Parkway − Between 171st St. & 172nd St." was a local station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in the Bronx, New York City. It originally opened on September 19, 1888, by the Suburban Rapid Transit Company as Wendover Avenue Station, and had three tracks and two side platforms. It was the northern terminus of the Third Avenue elevated until 1891. It was also two blocks east of the former Claremont Park New York Central Railroad station along the Harlem Line that was closed in 1960. The next stop to the north was 174th Street. The next stop to the south was 169th Street. The station closed on April 29, 1973. Claremont Parkway station burned down on April 30, 1973, in a huge arson fire.
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"Claremont Parkway (3rd Avenue El)".
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Claremont Parkway station” as new York City Subway station in The Bronx (closed 1973). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as new York City Subway station in The Bronx (closed 1973). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5126320. Authority coordinates are 40.838, -73.901. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1891, 1960 and 1973.
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