Cortlandt Street (BMT Broadway Line)

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New York City Subway station Cortlandt Street
(southbound only)

Station information
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N⁽⁵⁾ R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Borough	Manhattan
Opened	January 5, 1918^[1]
Next north	City Hall N⁽⁵⁾ R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)
Next south	Rector Street N⁽⁵⁾ R⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W^(123a)

Cortlandt Street is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway, located under Church Street, beteween Fulton and Cortlandt Streets in Lower Manhattan. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights, and the W train on weekdays. The N train, which is normally an express service to Brooklyn via the Manhattan Bridge, runs local via the Montague Street Tunnel during late nights, providing service to Cortlandt Street and other local stops in Lower Manhattan.

Cortlandt Street is the closest stop on the BMT Broadway Line to the former World Trade Center, with an exit at the north end of the station that once led to the World Trade Center's lower concourse, now leading to the concourse area of the temporary PATH station. It was closed for about a year in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The station was overhauled in the late 1970s, with repairs made to the station's structure and cosmetic appearance. The original BMT wall tiles were covered over with the MTA's then-standard large rectangular wall tiles, with bolted-on signs replacing the "Cortlandt Street" mosaics in the wall. Lighting was converted from incandescent to flourescent, and staircases and platform edges were repaired. Much of the cosmetic change that came with this renovation was undone in a subsequent 1998-1999 renovation. In addition to "state-of-repair" work and upgrades for ADA compliance, the station's original 1918 tilework was restored. Other improvements were made to the public address system, directional signage, and concrete trackbeds.

The station sustained significant damage during the collapse of the adjacent World Trade Center towers on September 11th, 2001. It was closed for repairs including the removal of debris, fixing structural damage, and restoring the track beds, which had suffered flood damage in the aftermath of the collapse. Cortlandt Street station reopened in late 2002 when these repairs were completed.

On August 20, 2005, Cortlandt Street station was closed again for installation of a new pedestrian concourse underneath Dey Street as part of the Fulton Street Transit Center project. At the same time, the station is to be made ADA-accessible in both directions. Previously, the station was accessible on the downtown side only, via the temporary PATH World Trade Center station's elevator. MTA posters and flyers at that time indicated the station would reopen in the spring of 2006, but in the spring of 2006, new literature appeared, promising completion by spring 2007, but providing no explanation as to why the project's time frame was being extended by 200%. As of Februrary, 2007, the station remains closed indefinitely at the request of the Port Authority, while excavation is performed for three new buildings on the Church Street side of the World Trade Center site, adjacent to the station.^[2]