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Stair at southeast corner of East Broadway and Rutgers Street |
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| Address | East Broadway & Rutgers Street New York, NY 10002 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Lower East Side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IND Sixth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | F (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | January 1, 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 4,001,149[1] 1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 111 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Delancey Street: F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | York Street: F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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East Broadway is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the F train at all times.
There is an abandoned tower at the north end of the island platform. The station has two mezzanines, four open staircases, three closed staircases, and one escalator. The full-time entrance at Madison Street has one street staircase, while the part-time entrance at Canal and Rutgers Streets has three. A passageway outside of fare control connects the two areas.
A sealed staircase in the middle of the passageway led to Henry Street. Inside fare control, the mezzanine extends to an area now used as space for maintenance.
The 1992 artwork at this station is called Displacing Details by Noel Copeland, with assistance by students from the Henry Street Settlement.
Some of the staircases lead to an intermediate level. This level was supposed to be a station of the unbuilt IND Worth Street Line. Behind a locked door, located in the north end of the mezzanine, the floor drops to the level of the intended trackways for the unbuilt Worth Street Line.[2] The unused space runs for no more than fifteen feet to a solid wall. Near the north end of this station, a different ceiling structure angling across marks where the unbuilt subway would have gone.[3] The ramp that descends from the full-time side would have led to the same intermediate level, with a station facility in between, but that was never constructed.
