Parkchester/Van Nest station
planned rail station in New York City
Parkchester/Van Nest station is a planned commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, to be located within Bronx Community Board 11 in Van Nest and just north of the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. The station is planned to open in 2027 as part of the Penn Station Access project, which will add four stations in the Bronx. It will be located east of Unionport Road, with entrance from East Tremont Avenue.
History
The Van Nest station of the New Haven Railroad, opened in the late 19th century, was located at the same site. The station and the Van Nest neighborhood are believed to be named for Abraham R. Van Nest, an 1870s director of the railroad. A new station building in the Dutch revival style was designed by Cass Gilbert around 1908, but never built.
The railroad's Van Nest Shops were located north of the station. A freight yard opened in 1895, with an electric locomotive repair facility built in 1912. The shops were closed in 1959, with locomotive repair moved to New Haven Yard. The site, with several original buildings still extant, has been used by Con Edison as their Van Nest Yard since 1959.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Parkchester/Van Nest station” as planned rail station in New York City. 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 planned rail station in New York City. 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 Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110078406. Authority coordinates are 40.842, -73.863. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2027, 1908, 1895 and 1912.
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This entry incorporates text from “Parkchester/Van Nest station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.