34th Street–Herald Square (New York City Subway)

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New York City Subway station 34th Street


Station information
Services	B^(123a) D F V⁽¹²³⁾ N Q R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)
Other
Borough	Manhattan
Connection	PATH at 33rd Street

34th Street or 34th Street–Herald Square is a New York City Subway station complex on the BMT Broadway Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line. It is located at Herald Square in Midtown Manhattan where 34th Street, Broadway and Sixth Avenue intersect, and is served by:

D, F, N and Q trains at all times
R trains at all times except late nights
B, V and W trains weekdays

Just south of the complex, an underground connection is available to PATH at 33rd Street. There is an exit from the station directly into the Manhattan Mall, and Macy's flagship store is located just outside the station. Pennsylvania Station is one block west. Since the closure of an underground walkway between the two stations in the 1990s, passengers must walk at street level to transfer.

1 Renovations
2 BMT Broadway Line platforms
3 IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms
4 Bus connections
5 Bombing plot
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Renovations

34th Street station complex was overhaul in the late 1970s. MTA did fix the station's structure and the overhaul appearance. It replaces the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In the early 1990s, the station was receiving a major overhaul. It was received state of repairs as well as upgrading the station for ADA compliance and modernize wall tiling. MTA did repair the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

[edit] BMT Broadway Line platforms

Station information
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N Q R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other
Opened	January 5, 1918^[1]
Next north	Times Square–42nd Street N Q R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)
Next south	Local: 28th Street N⁽⁴⁵⁾ R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)
	Express: 14th Street–Union Square N⁽¹²³⁾ Q

34th Street on the BMT Broadway Line has 2 island platforms. These platforms opened several years after the opening of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson station; the Sixth Avenue platforms were built later.

[edit] IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms

Station information
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	B^(123a) D F V⁽¹²³⁾
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other
Borough	Manhattan
Opened	December 15, 1940
Next north	42nd Street–Bryant Park B^(123a) D F V⁽¹²³⁾
Next south	Local: 23rd Street F V⁽¹²³⁾
	Express: West Fourth Street–Washington Square B^(123a) D

34th Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line has 2 island platforms. The station has many entrances and exits, including one directly into Manhattan Mall and another that extends to the eastern side of Fifth Avenue.

During construction on the IND portion of this station, constructors had to counter problems in their path. For one, the BMT and PATH platforms existed decades before this portion of the station was completed. Constructors had to dig deeper in order to pass the original platforms without interference, as well as avoiding wires and pipes.

Until around mid-1980s, there were passageways (but not free transfers) to the adjacent 42nd Street–Bryant Park station to the north and to 34th Street–Penn Station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line.