It also serves as a rush hour short turn northern terminal for select 4 trains from Crown Heights–Utica Avenue.

As part of Contract 3, the IRT agreed to build an elevated line along Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.

[25] This station was renovated a second time from June 17 to October 16, 2006 as part of a $55 million project to renovate five stations (183rd Street, Kingsbridge Road, Bedford Park Boulevard and Mosholu Parkway being the other four) on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line, bringing them to a state of good repair.

Also, the token booth in the mezzanine was reduced in size and relocated from directly facing the main turnstiles from the unpaid side of fare control to facing the Manhattan-bound stairs from behind the Woodlawn-bound stairs, also from the unpaid side of fare control.

In May 2018, New York City Transit Authority President Andy Byford announced his plan subway and bus modernization plan, known as Fast Forward, which included making an additional 50 stations compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 during the 2020–2024 MTA Capital Program to allow most riders to have an accessible station every two or three stops.

[28][29] The draft 2020–2024 Capital Program released in September 2019 included 66 stations that would receive ADA improvements.

[30] In December, the MTA announced that an additional twenty stations, including Burnside Avenue, would be made ADA-accessible as part of the Capital Program.

There are extra side exits from the wooden mezzanine near the stairs to the platform, and the station is three to four stories above street level.