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168 STREET
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168th
Street (Originally 168th
Street-Washington Heights) Opened 9/10/1932: is discussed on the
complexes page
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163 STREET
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163rd
Street-Amsterdam Ave (161st
Street/Amsterdam Ave and St. Nicholas Ave) opened 9/10/1932:
Exits are located at 161st and 162nd
Streets only. Descending from one of the 2 street stairs
at the 161st Street/Amsterdam Ave side, one can see
an floor imprint facing the current booth further down.
It is where the old-style change booth once existed, giving the
impression that when the station first opened, most of the
mezzanine layout was inside fare control and a crossover from
one platform side to another was allowed. Today, the booth
is between the 161st street exits and the lone 162nd
street exit and 2 separate fare controls exist, one to each side
and the mezzanine is cut off in half. There is no
crossover allowed, except if you have any type of Unlimited Ride
MetroCard. The area beyond 162nd street is sealed off,
thus there were exits at the north end at 163rd
street along with 2 closed staircases from platform to mezzanine
level. (Some evidence of the “163” with directional
arrows, still exist on the platform tablets.) Station is 2
tracks and 2 side platforms, the 2 express tracks are directly
below the station. There are 3 stairs to each platform,
along with open air vents that are visible at both ends of each
platform. There is at least one “ghost booth” reported,
this would be at the closed 163rd street end.
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155 STREET
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155th
Street (155th Street and Saint Nicholas Ave)
Opened 9/10/1932: Similar to 163rd street, but
station layout is not as complex. Station had full length
mezzanine, as evident by closed area at south end. This
area is now used as a NYCT station facility. 2 tracks and
2 side platforms, the express tracks are again beneath the
station. 6 street stairs and 4 stairs to each platform,
there is also closed staircases at the south end leading up to
the old 153rd street side and possible ghost booth.
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145 STREET
A
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145th
Street-Harlem
(St. Nicholas Ave between 145th and 147th Streets)
opened 9/10/1932: This station
has 2 levels, the upper level is where the A (See
A Lefferts and A
Rockaway) and C trains stop, and the lower level is where
the Concourse
B and
D trains stop here. There are 2 full time mezzanines,
one at 145th street (4 street stairs available, one for each
corner), and the other at 147th street (2 street stairs).
Each side has 3 stairs from mezzanine to the upper level, and 1
escalator from each mezzanine, directly down to the Uptown only
side lower level (B/D)
platform. There are no escalators from the Downtown side
to upper level. Like many other IND stations when first
opened, it had a full length mezzanine connecting both of
today's mezzanines; this space is now used by the NYPD as a
Transit Bureau District Office. Unknown to most people,
there was also exits in the middle of the closed mezzanine,
there actually is (what appears to be) an original 1932 IND sign
on the Downtown, upper level side that sits overhead in the
middle of the platform. To see this sign, you need to stand and
face the north end it reads "exit to street". Outside of
the station, on the street, a closed and slabbed over staircase
still sits on the NW corner of 146th Street and St. Nicholas.
The upper level is 4 tracks and 2 island platforms; however the
lower level has 3 tracks and 2 island platforms. The
Uptown platform on the lower level is wider than the Downtown
platform, the possible IND plan was to make the Concourse line
in the Bronx as 4 tracks, but plans were scaled back down to 3.
The Concourse line opened a year later after the first IND line
(1933). This station is where midday and evening B trains
terminate on the middle track before returning back to Brooklyn.
During AM and PM rush hours, the same middle track is used by D
Concourse express trains in the peak direction traveled only (AM
Southbound and PM Northbound). From this point down to 59th
Street/Columbus Circle, there are 4 lines A ( See
A Lefferts and A
Rockaway , B, C,
D) running. From 145th the train
enters a maze of complex switches, but is actually easier to
figure things out when you ride area between these points a few
times each way.
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135 STREET
A
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135th
Street
(Saint Nicholas Ave between 135th and 137th Streets)
opened 9/10/1932:
Local stop, tile band now becomes
green. This is the only local stop that has 6 tracks
separating both side platforms. Fare controls are all at
platform level, no mezzanine and no crossover or crossunder.
The full time booths are at the 135th street side (one booth to
each side, 3 stairs on Uptown side, 1 stair on Downtown side),
and the Part time sides at 137th Street had ghost booths and 1
street stair to each side. There were restrooms at the
north end of the Downtown platform. Both of the
street stairs on the downtown side were built facing Morningside
Park and have a 19th Century feel to them. The exit-only
stair from the Part time Uptown side features a nice array of
stone casting in a Cathedral like setting, originally built in
1932, not your common steel entrance. Of the 6 tracks,
only 4 are in active revenue service. The other 2 tracks
are only used for non-revenue service.
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125 STREET
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125th
Street (125th
Street and Saint Nicholas Ave.)
Opened
9/10/1932:
Express stop in the heart
of Harlem's busiest commercial strip, it is an express stop with
4 tracks and 2 island platforms. The station had a
renovation in the 1980's, during which the set of stairs to each
platform at the north end were removed. The current plan
restored these 2 stairs at the far North end. Station has
full length mezzanine with one each of Fulltime and Part time
fare control areas. fulltime side at 125th street has 4 street
stairs and Part time side has 2 street stairs. There are 5
stairs to each platform. There are large scale photos of
Harlem in the 1920's and 1930's, In the middle of the
mezzanine, there is evidence of closed stairs and exits to 126th
street, one on each side. One of the stairs appears to
lead into a business that existed at street level. The
tile band on the platform walls is untouched from the 1980's
renovation and is green
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116 STREET
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116th
Street (West 116th
Street/Frederick Douglas Boulevard Ave) opened
9/10/1932: 4 tracks, 2 side platforms. Each
side has one platform level mezzanine, no crossover or underpass
and 2 street stairs. 116,135, and 163 Street are the only
3stations north of 59th Street that do not permit
doubling back to the opposite direction without leaving the
system. There is evidence on both sides of an
abandoned Part time entrance or exit at the north end, by West
118th St.
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110 STREET
CATHEDRAL PARKWAY
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110th
Street
Cathedral Parkway( West 109th St and
Central Park West) opened 9/10/1932:
Local station with Fulltime mezzanine and crossover at 109th
Street side at south end with 2 street stairs and 2 stairs to
each platform. The station and wall tiles were recently
restored to a near immaculate appearance. Additional Part
time booth and fare control at southbound side to Cathedral
Parkway, the street stairs were most likely extended when the
apartment high-rise at the Northwest corner of Central Park West
and Cathedral Parkway was built in the 1970’s. There is
evidence of an underpass at the 110th St side, and a
closed booth on the Northbound side. This station and 103rd
St are very interesting places for train watching, especially
seeing the unusual track configuration of the Northbound express
track. At 110th Street, the trains rise up from
below at the north end. Artwork: “Migrations” by
Christopher Wynter (1999) At this point below 110th
St, the Southbound (Downtown) tracks will drop below the
Northbound side to create bi-level stations from 103rd
St to 72nd St. Downtown trains will use the
lower level, while Uptown trains use the upper level. Due
to the track configuration, the Northbound express track drops
from upper to lower level at 103rd St, then rises
back up at 110th St-Cathedral Parkway, an unusual
place to watch in the NYC subway system . The secondary name
comes from the nearby Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
According to the
MTA Web Site" At Cathedral Parkway, Harlem's southern boundary,
three large mosaic murals were created that refer to migration
and African homelands. "Overall, the panels present the ideas of
uprooting, migration, and progress in symbolic form," says
artist Christopher Wynter. He further explains that the blocks
of color differentiate various African ancestral homelands, and
the circular symbol represents the n'kis, or sacred place
concept, of the Nkongo people. Houses on stilts suggest Central
African buildings, while horizontal bands of color denote
village paths. Wheels and walking feet describe faraway
destinations, according to Wynter, and reference the mass
movements of Africans throughout history. The station is located
below Frederick Douglass Circle. Douglass, the abolitionist
crusader, is also depicted.."""
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103 STREET
A
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103rd
Street (West 103rd
Street and Central Park West) Opened 9/10/1932:There used to be
3 entrances to this station, only one now exists, 1 street stair
to mezzanine, with one stair level down to Southbound local
platform. The Northbound express track runs from upper to
lower level before rising up at 110th Street.
Signs to abandoned 102nd and 104th Street
exits are covered with red with white “Exit” signs.
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96 STREET
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96th
Street (West 96th
Street and Central Park West) Opened 9/10/1932:
Current station has 2 exits, Fulltime area is smaller
than most platform level IND entrances, 3 steps up to Northbound
platform, 1 stair down to lower level at Fulltime side, another
at Part time side to 97th St. Part time side at
97th Street has 2 street stairs, one stair to
Northwest corner at 97th St and CPW is relocated with
longer passageway (it has 1960’s type of entrance, similar in
design to the Lenox Ave stations or Grand St/IND). This is
due to the widening of 97th Street. An old “K”
route bullet sits on the face of this entrance, the line was
discontinued on 12/10/1988. The south end has a closed
exit to 95th Street .
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86 STREET
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86th
Street (West 86th
Street and Central Park West) Opened 9/10/1932: only
station along CPW to have all station fare control areas left
intact. Station has 3 entrances from 86th to 88th
Streets. 86th Street is, of course, the full
time area with 2 street stairs and 2 stairs to lower level.
87th St. is exit only and still has old fashioned HXT
wheel with 1 street stair and possible ghost booth. 88th
St has ghost booth and is HEET accessible
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81 STREET
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
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81st
Street Museum of Natural History
(West 81st Street and Central
Park West) Opened 9/10/1932: A good number of
movies were filmed inside and outside this station, among them
“Men in Black II”, where Will Smith exits the 79th St
passageway after nearly been “eaten” by a monster in an mock R32
trainset. Other films are: “Hannah and Her Sisters”.
This station was renovated in-house by NYCT forces in 2000 and
is a shining example of how renovations should be done, by
updating the footprints of the IND tile band and signage, while
preserving the integrity of this station, and combing the
artwork with the IND footprints in their natural habitat at the
same time. This station serves both the Museum of the same
name and the adjacent Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Artwork: “For Want of a Nail” (1999-2001) done by the
staff and design team of the very same MTA Arts for Transit
program, features a beautiful array of animals on the upper
level and extinct species on the lower level using 4 different
types of material, from bronze to glass, to create over 35
different mosaics. For example: a lizard is drawn as
if he is “walking” on the purple tile band, an owl sits on top
of an 81 tile mosaic, while the most interesting artwork is a
whale “diving” underneath the platform near the 81st
St side. Full time side is at 81st St and has 2
street stairs. Part time side has direct entrance to
Museum of Natural History and passageway to West 79th
St and Central Park West, and 3 staircases from Uptown level to
Downtown level. Most portions of the tile band are 1 tile
deep, instead of the usual 3 tile height and are an addition
because 81st Street had no tile band. “MUSEUM”
and 81 directional mosaics are a shade of dark purple, instead
of the customarily white lettering on black background on most
pre-unification IND stations.
According to the
MTA Web Site "...In
For Want of a Nail, the artist team used a variety of
materials to suggest the range and diversity at the American
Museum of Natural History, directly above the subway station.
Glass mosaic, glass tile, ceramic tile, granite, and bronze
relief are combined in ways that highlight the ten key
disciplines at the Museum. The mosaics represent extinct and
living animals, the former in grey and the latter in color. The
work assembles images from outer space to
the earth's core and from the first organisms to emerge to
mammals of today. The artwork was a collaboration between MTA
Arts for Transit and the Museum. For Want of a Nail, the
title of an old proverb, asks the viewer to consider the way
everything is connected.
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72 STREET
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72nd
Street (West 72nd
Street-Central Park West) opened 9/10/1932: Station
currently has 2 entrances and a closed exit in the middle of the
station. This station has an interesting street level
entrance at the Southwest corner of West 72nd Street
and Central Park West; it is one of the longest subway
entrances. Fulltime booth at West 72nd Street
has 2 street stairs (including the extra-long entrance), while
Part time side at West 70th Street, and has ghost
booth and 1 street stair. Much of the Part time fare
control is shortened due to an additional station facility.
There also was a central exit. The West 71st St, has
been reopened with HEETs. The “71” directional tablets,
below the large “72nd St” station mosaic tile, are
covered up with current black and white lettering signs.
Access to the downtown lower level can be made via any one of
the 3 staircases; the center staircase from upper to lower is
gated shut.
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59 STREET
COLUMBUS CIRCLE
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59th
Street Columbus Circle
(entire area within Columbus Circle, at Broadway/Central Park
West) IRT section opened 10/27/1904, IND section opened
9/10/1932: This station is fully discussed on the
Complexes Page.
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50 STREET
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50th
Street (on 8th
Avenue at 50th Street) has two levels. The upper
level opened on 9/10/1932 and is served by the C train has four
tracks and two wall platforms with no crossover or crossunder.
Fare control is at platform level. The lower level opened on
8/19/1933 and has two tracks and two wall platforms with a
curtain wall separating the tracks, also no crossover or
crossunder. The lower level serves the E
train. The downtown side has an expanded mezzanine area with
exits to West 49th and West 50th Streets,
plus two elevators, one from the street level to the mezzanine
and the second from the mezzanine to the upper platform to the
lower level E platform. This
mezzanine was redone at the same time when the Worldwide Plaza
Complex was constructed. Artwork on the downtown upper
level is by Matt Mulligan and was installed in 1998 and features
neighborhood life and is untitled. It is on etched granite.
Downtown has an escalator to the lower level and exits into a
building façade. had closed exits at 51st street and
52nd Street. Also, part of the upper level (C
train) is slightly to the north of the lower level.
According to the
MTA Web Site "...Matt
Mullican, Untitled, 1989.Etched granite mural in entrance,
sponsored by New York Communications Center Associates .Artist
Matt Mullican created an 8-foot by 68-foot sandblasted black
granite mural that presents a time-line of the history of the
station site, atop which sits an office tower. (The subway
station was rehabilitated in concert with the office
development.) Mullican employs an iconographic visual vocabulary
through which he reveals the site's past as rural, occupied by a
cabin, and as a previous site of Madison Square Garden.
Depictions of maps and aerial views are also part of the large
mural. Mullican's pictographs reward the repeat visitor with
layers of meaning as the piece is viewed again and again.
Mullican communicates through a simplified visual system, but
his signs provide deeper meaning to those who look.
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42 STREET
PORT AUTHORITY
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42nd
Street Port Authority Bus Terminal
opened on 9/10/1932 and is described on the
Complexes Page
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34 STREET
PENN STATION
STATION
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34th
Street Penn Station
opened on 9/10/1932 and has four tracks. There are two wall
platforms serving the local trains and an island platform
serving the express trains. It was renovated by Citnalta
Construction Company and features art on the lower Mezzanine
with a Madison Square Garden theme and has full ADA to all
platforms. Alongside the walls of both local platforms are nice
IND style replica lettering and tablets showing "Madison Square
Garden" . The Garden did not open at their current location
until 36 years after the station opened ( 1968) A source within
Citnalta advised the curved wall was a real challenge for them
(and they did do very well.). The station also has exits to
Penn station which serves
NJT, LIRR, and
Amtrak. One fallacy exists with the renovation—the lower
mezzanine’s booth is closed overnight and a big backup trying to
enter and exit via the HEETs. It is remedied only by crowd
control or NYPD opening the turnstiles. This station has
numerous ghost booths. Your webmaster has had excellent
cooperation from employees, supervisors and managers of the many
contractors (in house or external) renovating stations and
extends our thanks for their generous assistance.
According to the
MTA web site"...The Garden
of Circus Delights is the artist's homage to the circus,
which makes annual visits to Madison Square Garden, located
above the station, and also connected to the Long Island Rail
Road. Eric Fischl's work is narrative and this work follows in
this tradition. A series of murals takes commuters from the
familiar to the bizarre circus world. "I thought it would be
amusing," Fischl says, "to do a contemporary Dante's Inferno, to
turn commuting into a spiritual quest." The murals portray
fire-breathers, acrobats, and animals; gradually one realizes
that a commuter has left home and been pulled into the circus,
where he meets incredible circus characters and then, on the
other side of the tent, he emerges in the white light and
harmony, a commuter again, but transported and transformed."
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23 STREET
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23rd
Street (on 8th
Avenue at 23rd street) opened on 9/10/1932 and has
four tracks and two wall platforms. There is a closed crossunder
at 25th street, the north exit. Two exits at 24th
street (one per platform) and an open crossunder on the south
end. The station is unrenovated. There are
numerous ghost booths at this station.
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14 STREET
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14th
Street (on 8th
Avenue at 14th Street) opened on 9/10/1932 and is
described on the Complexes Page
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WEST 4 STREET
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West 4th
Street (Ave of the
Americas between West 3rd St and Waverly Place) Upper
level opened 9/10/1932, Lower level opened 12/15/1940. has four
tracks on the upper level, serving A,( see A
Lefferts and A Rockaway) C and
E trains, a lower Mezzanine and then a
lower level serving B,
D , F,
M and former V
trains. The lower Mezzanine is full width and length and also
holds numerous offices for NYCT. The north end of the upper
level has exits to the street. The south end of the upper level
ramps up to a crossover and a booth. Full ADA is via the south
end. A tower is at the south end of the southbound lower level
platform. The North exit leads to West Eighth Street and the
south to west Third Street. The exit to west Fourth Street has
been removed. The station has a secondary name of Washington
Square.
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SPRING STREET
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Spring
Street (on 6th
Avenue at Spring Street) opened on 9/10/32 and has 4 tracks and
two wall platforms with a crossunder at the South end. The
station has numerous closed exits
and areas.
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CANAL STREET
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Canal
Street (on 6th
Avenue at Canal Street) opened on 9/10/1932 and has four tracks
and two offset island platforms (the offset is due to switches
at both ends) with a crossunder at the extreme south end only.
There is an artwork entitled “A Gathering” installed in 2000. It
is by Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz and features 188 birds in
fourteen lifelike poses. The American Museum of Natural History
assisted the designers with this project by providing specimens
to study. It has been renovated and had a closed passageway and
exit to Grand Street. It was closed due to security
concerns by NYCT and the Transit Police (at that time before the
1998 merger.)
According
to the MTA
web Site "...Bronze sculptures on token booth, railings, and
beams throughout mezzanine. Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have
turned the Canal Street Station into a subterranean aviary.
There are dozens of birds - 174 grackles and blackbirds, in a
number of different poses, and seven crows, all cast in bronze
and given a glossy black patina. They are seen roosting on
railings and perched in groups, like people waiting for the
train, watching, lost in thought, or chatting. Birds, the
artists note, are very social creatures - just like New Yorkers,
and riders may find echoes of themselves and other subway riders
in their lively expressions. Canal Street is a busy commercial
thoroughfare, devoid of nature. A Gathering compensates
for this by enlivening the space and providing respite from the
dense traffic and bustling commercialism above."
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CHAMBERS STREET
WORLD TRADE CENTER
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Chambers
Street World Trade Center
opened on 9/10/1932 and is described on the
Complexes Page
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FULTON STREET
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Fulton
Street ( originally
Broadway Nassau
) opened on 2/1/1933 and is described on the
Complexes Page
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HIGH STREET
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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High
Street Brooklyn Bridge
opened on 2/1/1933 and has two tracks and
an island platform in a tube design. There are exits at both
ends to t full Mezzanine along with evidence (gated stairways)
of removed center exits to the Mezzanine. The
F Train joins us for one station and we
enter the next station
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JAY STREET METRO TECH
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Jay
Street Metro Tech (on
Jay Street at Willoughby Street. Multiple entrances all the way
from Fulton Mall to Myrtle Avenue on Jay Street) opened on
2/1/1933 and has four tracks and two island platforms. As
currently configured there is a mezzanine most of the length of
the platforms and a passageway to Fulton Street outside the paid
area. There are also HEETs to allow access to Fulton Street..
Based on tile evidence this station has many ghost booths and
sealed exits. There are also entrances to the NYCT
building at both ends, the north leading directly into the
building and is guarded by Transit Property Protection Agents.
This end also has an intermediate level outside the subway
entrance there was also a paper transfer to the elevated Myrtle
Avenue el which ran on Myrtle Avenue and met the
Brown M train at Broadway Myrtle and is
now demolished. The F train leaves us
and we press on. This station has been connected to the
R train Lawrence Street Station
with a new in system transfer. This complex is described on the
complexes page.
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HOYT SCHERMERHORN
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Hoyt
Schermerhorn (at the
intersection of Hoyt Street and Schermerhorn Street)
opened on 4/9/1936 and is a very unusual station which has lots
to see. It has six tracks and four island platforms of which
only the inner pair of platforms are in use. The two outer
island platforms are used for movie and commercial shoots. The A
(See A Lefferts and
A Rockaway) and C use the local side of the open
island platforms and the G uses the
express. There are numerous sealed stairways and exits including
a sealed passageway to Livingston Street and the long gone
Loesser’s Department Store via direct entrance to the store. A
police facility also occupies the mezzanine along with various
NYCT offices. The last use of the outer platforms was for the
Aqueduct Race Track specials. While not done today, trains on
the local track of the open island could open doors on the
closed island’s express track but bold red signs at the
conductor’s position advise “ DO NOT OPEN DOORS—WRONG SIDE”.
The “local” tracks on the closed wall platforms lead to the
Transit Museum (Court Street Station) and were once used for the
short lived Court Street Shuttle which ran from Hoyt to Court
Street. Based on track numbers, these tracks were planned to
continue to today’s World Trade Center Station
on the E train. (Both lines share
the same track letter codes. For more information on this see
www.nycsubway.org and
Brennan’s
page .
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LAFAYETTE STREET
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Lafayette
Street (on Fulton
Street at Lafayette Street) opened on 4/9/1936 and has four
tracks and two wall platforms with vent chambers on both
platforms and the Mezzanine. There are numerous removed
stairways to the full Mezzanine. A tower at the south end of the
southbound platform is used for G.O. and emergencies only. The
north exit leads to South Portland Avenue and Fulton Street and
the south to Lafayette and Fulton Streets. As configured there
is no crossover in the Mezzanine but it could be reconfigured to
allow a free crossover. It is most likely that when the station
first opened there were booths at both ends and had a crossover
The G Train stop is around the corner
with no connection between the two stations. A conductor on the
G advised that the two sets of tracks
cross under each other making a transfer difficult. (An employee
transfer exists behind locked doors on both stations and is
only for track qualified employees.)
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CLINTON WASHINGTON AVENUES
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Clinton Washington Avenues (on Fulton Street
between Clinton and Washington Avenues ) opened on 4/9/1936 and also has four
tracks and two wall platforms. Fare control is at platform level with no
crossover or crossunder. Each side has at least one
ghost booth.i
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FRANKLIN AVENUE
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Franklin
Avenue is discussed
on the complexes page
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NOSTRAND AVENUE
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Nostrand
Avenue (on
Fulton Street at Nostrand Avenue) opened on4 /9/1936 and is a
unique two level station with two wall platforms and two tracks
on the upper level and two wall platforms with a curtain wall
which hides two more tracks or trackways! In an interesting
arrangement the express tracks use the upper level rather than
the lower level, the only station in the entire NYC subway
system to have that arrangement. This station was
originally planned to be a local station with a mezzanine. The
upper platforms are double wide which would be consistent with
the design of a Mezzanine. There is a closed passageway with a
crossover to Bedford Avenue at the north end of the upper level
along with a closed exit to Arlington Place. The lower level has
a curtain wall separating the two tracks. If you are fortunate
enough to get a rail fan window view you can see the express
rising and see the local track directly under the express
platforms. If you had x-ray vision the local tracks are under
the express platforms. There is no direct entrance to the
LIRR station which is two blocks
south on street. From the northbound platform’s south end a hole
in the curtain wall allows a bright flashlight beam to show the
two center tracks or trackways.
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KINGSTON THROOP AVENUES
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Kingston
Throop Avenues (on
Fulton Street between Kingston and Throop Avenues ) opened on
4/9/1936 and has four tracks and two offset wall platforms with
no crossover or crossunder .Northbound has a center
exit to Throop Avenue and southbound has an exit at the north
end to Kingston Avenue . The name "Throop" is
pronounced "Troop." (The letter H
is Silent .)
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UTICA AVENUE
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Utica
Avenue (On Fulton
Street at Utica Avenue) opened on 4/9/1936 and has four tracks
and two wall platforms. This station has a shell for a future
Utica Avenue IND subway. For more information see
Brennan’s
page and
www.nycsubway.org. Platforms widen toward the center.
There are exists at both ends and the center. The center exit
leads to an intermediate level and has an artwork entitled
“Children’s Cathedral” by Jimmy James Greene and was installed
in 1996. A close look at the ceiling reveals the trackways for
this future subway as well as double doors on the intermediate
level at the center exit. The once full mezzanine's center
portion is now employee space and holds a big secret-- A mosaic
tablet points the way to a slabbed over exit to Stuyvesant
avenue.
According to the
MTA Web site "...Ceramic
mosaic and iron grillwork in passageways leading to platforms.
Dominating one of Jimmy James Greene's huge mosaic panels in the
Utica Avenue station is a plump yellow angel on rollerblades.
Perhaps more than any image in the ten panels that compose
Children's Cathedral, this demonstrates the artist's
intentions: to reflect the desires, dreams and memories of the
community's children in their own drawings. "At first," he says,
"I talked with the kids about how they play, learn, pray, and
celebrate. Then they drew." What emerged were images of the
neighborhood: shops, a woman pushing a baby carriage, a teacher
in class, plants, flowers, and, most of all, children in action:
singing in choir, jumping rope, reading, riding bikes. The
artist took hundreds of the children's images and arranged them
into eight groupings, adding color to the pencil drawings. "They
were the soloists," he says, "I was the orchestra leader."
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RALPH AVENUE
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Ralph
Avenue (on Fulton
Street at Ralph Avenue ) opened on 4/9/1936 and has four tracks
and two wall platforms. There are numerous closed and removed
stairways along with an exit at the south end to Howard Avenue.
A mosaic tablet "to Howard Avenue" was still visible in the
mezzanine. The south mezzanine is closed with the booth in the
center leading to the north exit to Ralph Avenue, however the
street level entrances on Howard Avenue remain intact. This
station once had a booth at each end.
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ROCKAWAY AVENUE
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Rockaway
Avenue (on Fulton
Street at Hopkinson Avenue (Thomas Boyland Street) opened on
4/9/1936 and has four tracks and two wall platforms. South end
leads to Rockaway Avenue with no crossover or crossunder and the
North exit has a crossover and leads to Hopkinson Avenue (Thomas
Boyland Street). The southbound platform is slightly longer than
the northbound platform. The northbound side at Rockaway Avenue
has a ghost booth, a victim of the hit list of a rash of booth
closures in 2003.
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BROADWAY JUNCTION
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Broadway
Junction
(Entrance at Van
Sinderen Avenue between Fulton Street and Eastern Parkway
)opened on 12/30/1946 as Broadway East New York and is described
on the Complexes Page
The next three
stations are unique in being the first stations to have had
fluorescent lighting when opened and feature beige tile rather
than white and blue and white name tiles rather than black and
white.
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LIBERTY AVENUE
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Liberty Avenue
(on Pennsylvania Avenue at Liberty Avenue) opened on 4/9/1936
and has four tracks and two wall platforms .The exit is in the
center with two stairways to a crossover. Exit is to Liberty and
Pennsylvania Avenues Old signs indicate “To Manhattan” and “To
Richmond Hill and Ozone Park” and “public Telephone” (no phone
!) At platform level there was a wide area under the stairways
now used for storage. No ads were found.
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VAN SICLEN AVENUE
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Van
Siclen Avenue (on
Pitkin Avenue at Hendrix Street) opened on 4/9/1936 and has four
tracks and two wall platforms The station also has a crossover
but has single double wide stairway to the Mezzanine. No ads
were found. If there was an exit to Van Siclen is it sealed.
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SHEPHERD AVENUE
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Shepherd
Avenue
(on Pitkin Avenue at
Shepherd Avenue) opened on 4/9/1936 and has four tracks and two
wall platforms. Resembles Van Siclen and has a crossover. No ads
were found
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EUCLID AVENUE
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Euclid Avenue
(on Pitkin Avenue at Euclid Avenue) opened on 11/28/1948 and has
four tracks and two island platforms. It represents the first
expansion of the IND since the Sixth Avenue Line opened in
1940There is a crossover at the south end. This is the end of
the C train. Normally the C uses the local track but can use the
express track. which is currently used by the A Train ( See
A Lefferts and A
Rockaway)
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