Jackson Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line station)
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Jackson Avenue is a stop in The Bronx on the 5 Line of the New York Subway. It has a short canopy at the station house only. Fare control is on the southbound side only with iron maiden turnstiles on the northbound side. There are old signs, now covered up, and a closed station house on the north side, which has old plywood walls and floors. The station has escaped the windscreen treatment common at other elevated stations. The southbound has doors from the stationhouse to the street and a partially removed old token booth overlooking the southbound platform.
The track ascends to become an elevated structure for the trip to East 180th Street. This is the longest section of elevated teack built under Interborough Rapid Transit Contract. Rising to the El level one can still see the shortened supports for the Third Avenue El line which once ran above.