Franklin Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

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Franklin Street
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1 (all times) 2 (late nights)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Passengers (2006)	1.706 million ▼ 3%
Other
Borough	Manhattan
Opened	July 1, 1918
Next north	Canal Street: 1 2
Next south	Chambers Street: 1 2

Franklin Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Franklin Street, Varick Street, and West Broadway.^[1]

1 Station description
2 Services
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Station description

The station has two side platforms and four tracks with no crossover or crossunder.^[2] The full-time entrance is on the uptown side, on a traffic island where Varick Street and West Broadway meet. There is a kiosk reminiscent of the original IRT kiosks at 72nd Street and Bowling Green, but it was added during the station's renovation during the mid-1990s.^[2] The downtown entrance is on the west side of West Broadway, but the booth is not staffed at all times. There are part-time high-exit turnstiles one block north, at North Moore Street, on both the uptown and downtown sides.

There are "store window"-style art displays on the southbound platform and a faux-newsstand on the northbound side.^[2] Although the station's original wall tiling was replaced during renovations, its mosaic bands were kept; there are "Franklin Street" large mosaics, small "F" mosaics and directional mosaics "To Franklin St." and "To North Moore St."^[2] The floor tiles are rose-coloured.^[2]

[edit] Services

Franklin Street is served by the 1 at all times and supplemented by the 2 during night hours. Each services operates every 20 minutes during early morning and late night hours so as to have at least 10 minute intervals with alternating 1 and 2 trains.^[3] At around 5.35am, the 2 begins running express through Manhattan, leaving the station solely served by 1 trains until almost 1am the next day,^[4] at which time 1 service increases to every ten minutes, eventually increasing to five minute increments.^[3] Peak hour services run at up to three-minute gaps between trains.^[3] Service then gradually decreases throughout the rest of the day. Despite being on the same main line and passing through the station, the 3 continues as express and never stops at Franklin Street.^[5]