After months of construction, the Mosholu Parkway #4 subway station has reopened, with the unveiling of an entrance that hasn’t been used in over 30 years.

The reconstruction project comes as part of the MTA NYC Transit’s plan to rehabilitate five stations along the Jerome Avenue #4 line.

There is still some work to be done at the station, says Fernando Tirado, district manager of Community Board 7. The city plans to renovate the park area surrounding the station. Tirado said that during the repairs on the station, trucks and other construction equipment drove on the grass, sections of which were damaged. Come spring, he said, “they’re going to rebuild and beautify the area.”

In addition, new artwork will be installed in the station, much like that currently found in the Bedford Park station.

The initial idea was to have mosaics in some of the Bronx stations, akin to those along the 4 and 5 lines in Manhattan. In Bedford Park, the new mosaic depicts the Bronx Botanical Garden. It is not yet known what the decorum at Mosholu will be.  

For now, local residents are particularly happy about having the southside entrance back after decades without it.

“It’s good that it’s opened closer to us,” said Sam Gillian, a resident of nearby Tracey Towers and a member of the building’s tenant association. Since the entrance closed, Gillian and his neighbors have had to walk further to get in to the subway.

Gillian’s one concern: “City agencies haven’t decided who’s shoveling the snow yet,” he said, adding that neither the transit nor the park authorities have cleared snow around the staircases at the station. “It’s just dangerous,” he said.