225th Street is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Wakefield, Bronx, at the intersection of 225th Street and White Plains Road, it is served by the 2 train on weekdays and the 5 train during rush hours in the peak direction and on weekends.Station layoutThis elevated station, opened on March 31, 1917 and renovated in Fall 2005, has three tracks and two side platforms.The center track is normally not used in revenue service. Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies with green outlines, frames, and support columns in the center and black, waist-high steel fences at either ends with lampposts at regular intervals. The windscreens have mesh fences at various points. The station signs are in the standard black name plates with white lettering.The 2006 artwork here is called Universal City by Nicky Enright. It consists of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicting images related to astronomy, including constellations, shooting stars, and orbiting planets and moons.ExitsThis station has one elevated station house beneath the center of the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from each platform go down to a waiting area. The back of the token booth faces this crossunder with steel fences on either side. On the Wakefield-bound side, there are two exit only turnstiles. On the Manhattan-bound side, there is an emergency gate and a bank of three turnstiles. Outside fare control, two staircases go down to the northwest and southeast corners of 225th Street and White Plains Road. The station house has glass windows.
