Prince Street (BMT Broadway Line)

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Prince Street
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N (late nights and weekends) R (all except late nights) W (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Passengers (2006)	4.444 million ▼ 2%
Other
Borough	Manhattan
Opened	September 4, 1917^[1]
Next north	Eighth Street-NYU: N R W
Next south	Canal Street: N R W

Prince Street is a local station on the New York City Subway's BMT Broadway Line. Each platform contains a fare control area and there are no other exits nor any crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfers between opposite directions.

In the late 1970's, New York City Transit fixed the station's structure and the overall appearance. They replaced the original wall tiles, signs, and incandescent lighting with a 1970s style wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In 2001, the station received a major overhaul. It included an upgrade of the station for ADA compliance and restoration of the original late 1910s tiling. New York City Transit repaired the staircases, re-tiled the walls, fitted new tiling on the floors, upgraded the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

The 2004 artwork, Carrying On, is by Janet Zweig. It uses water jet-cut steel, marble, and slate to create a mural along the entire length (totaling 1,200 feet) of both platforms. The 194 different frames in this frieze detail contain images of New Yorkers from all walks of life. As the title suggests, almost all of the images involve carrying something.