Ranked shortlist · 10 of 33 train stations
Best train stations in The Bronx
The 10 most notable train stations in The Bronx, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Ossining Metro North Train Station
20 Secor Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.527, percentile 100 of 33
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2
Williams Bridge
402 Gun Hill Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.320, percentile 96.88 of 33
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3
Longwood Avenue
Longwood Avenue & Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10459
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.305, percentile 93.75 of 33
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4
Metro North - Botanical Garden Train Station
2999 Southern Blvd
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.305, percentile 90.63 of 33
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5
5 Train Gun Hill Rd
1356 E Gun Hill Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.251, percentile 87.5 of 33
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6
Bedford Park Boulevard–Lehman College
200 Bedford Park Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.196, percentile 84.38 of 33
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7
MTA Metro-North Railroad-Tremont
429 E Tremont Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.119, percentile 81.25 of 33
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8
Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street
West 242nd St & Broadway, Bronx, NY 10471
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.064, percentile 78.13 of 33
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9
Metro North Fordham rd station
417 E Fordham Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.064, percentile 75 of 33
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10
MTA Metro-North Train Station
33 Lower Station Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.064, percentile 71.88 of 33
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).