Canal Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

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This article is about the station at Canal Street and Sixth Avenue. For the station at Canal and Varick Streets, see Canal Street (IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line). For the station complex in Chinatown, see Canal Street (New York City Subway).


Canal Street
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services	A (all times) C (all except late nights) E (all times)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Passengers (2006)	5.259 million ▲ 5%
Other
Opened	September 10, 1932^[1]
Next north	Spring Street (local): A C E West Fourth Street–Washington Square (express): A
Next south	World Trade Center (local): E Chambers Street (express): A C

Canal Street (formerly Canal Street–Holland Tunnel) is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the A and E trains at all times, and the C train at all times except late nights.

There are four tracks and two island platforms, which are each approximately 600 feet long. There are two sets of switch tracks allowing express trains to cross to the local track or local trains to cross to the express track. One set is located to the south of the station for downtown (southbound) trains and one set located to the north of the station for uptown (northbound) trains. The platforms are offset, and a signal tower is located at the south end of the southbound platform.