34th Street–Herald Square (New York City Subway)
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34th Street–Herald Square        |
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New York City Subway station |
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| Services | B  (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.)D  (all times)F (all times)N (all times)Q (all times)R  (all except late nights)V (weekdays until midnight)W (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.) |
| Passengers (2006) | 36.403 million ▲ 4% |
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| Borough | Manhattan |
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| Connection | PATH at 33rd Street |
34th Street–Herald Square is a New York City Subway station complex on the BMT Broadway Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line and is the third busiest station on the network. 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.
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[edit] Renovations
34th Street station complex was overhauled in the late 1970s. MTA fixed the station's structure and renovated its appearance. It replaced 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 another major repair as well as an upgrade for ADA compliance and modernized 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] "REACH New York, An Urban Musical Instrument"
In 1996, artist Christopher Janney installed "REACH New York, An Urban Musical Instrument." The piece consists of green racks with sensors hanging along the platforms of the BMT Broadway line. Waving one's hands in front of the sensors creates a corresponding sounds from the rack.
[edit] BMT Broadway Line platforms
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| Line | BMT Broadway Line |
| Services | N (all times) Q (all times)R (all except late nights)W (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.) |
| Platforms | 2 island platforms |
| Tracks | 4 |
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| Opened | January 5, 1918[1] |
| Next north | Times Square–42nd Street: N Q R W |
| Next south | 28th Street (local): N  R W 14th Street–Union Square (express): N 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
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| Line | IND Sixth Avenue Line |
| Services | B (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.) D (all times)F (all times)V (weekdays until midnight) |
| Platforms | 2 island platforms |
| Tracks | 4 |
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| Borough | Manhattan |
| Opened | December 15, 1940 |
| Next north | 42nd Street–Bryant Park: B D F V |
| Next south | 23rd Street (local): F V West Fourth Street–Washington Square (express): B 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.
The platforms are not equal in length, as the northbound platform is longer than the southbound, which explains why northbound trains stop at a long distance from the north end of the platform.
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.
[edit] Bus connections
[edit] Bombing plot
On August 28, 2004, Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay were arrested for planning to bomb the station during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
