Parkchester branch is located at 1985 Westchester Avenue. The branch opened in 1942 within the Parkchester development and moved to its current two-story structure in 1985. Transportation The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Parkchester: Bx4: to Westchester Square () or Third Avenue-149th Street () (via Westchester Avenue) Bx4A: to Westchester Square () or Simpson Street () (via Westchester Avenue and Metropolitan Oval) Bx11: to George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (via 170th Street, Claremont Parkway, 174th Street) Bx22: to Bedford Park (Bronx High School of Science) or Castle Hill (via Castle Hill Avenue and Unionport Road) Bx36: to Castle Hill or George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (via Tremont Avenue and White Plains Road) Bx39: to Wakefield – 241st Street subway station or Clason's Point (via White Plains Road) Bx40: to SUNY Maritime College or Morris Heights (via 180th Street and Tremont-Burnside Avenues) Bx42: to Throgs Neck or Morris Heights (via 180th Street and Tremont-Burnside Avenues) Q44 SBS: to Jamaica or West Farms (via East 177th Street, the Cross Bronx Expressway service roads) and Main Street) BxM6: express to Midtown Manhattan (via Metropolitan Avenue) The following New York City Subway station serves Parkchester: Parkchester () In popular culture Parkchester was the filming location for part of the Sporty Thievz 1999 video "No Pigeons." Extras were featured circling a red car parked in front of the Loews American (later known as just the American) theater on East Avenue. Parkchester was featured in the film Doubt (2008), during the scene when Sr. Aloysius is walking with Mrs. Miller behind the building located at 2051 St. Raymond Avenue. Notable people Claudette Colvin (born 1939), civil rights icon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989), U.S. Representative George A. Romero (1940–2017), filmmaker See also Cooperative Village Towers in the park Co-op City LeFrak City Marcus Garvey Village Mitchell Lama Parkfairfax, Virginia Parkmerced, San Francisco Park La Brea, Los Angeles Penn South Riverton Houses Rochdale Village, Queens Starrett City, Brooklyn Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village References External links Parkchester North and South Parkchester, the Bronx Parkchester South Condominium Parkchester Preservation Management (requires Flash to navigate) Parkchester Apartments Neighborhoods in the Bronx Condominiums and housing cooperatives in the Bronx Populated places established in 1939