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| Address | Prince Street & Broadway New York, NY 10012 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | SoHo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Broadway Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | N (all times) R (all except late nights) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 4, 1917[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 5,146,546[2] 6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 79 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Eighth Street – New York University: N R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | Canal Street: N R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prince Street is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the N train at all times and the R train at all times except late nights. Each side platform contains a fare control area and there are no other exits nor any crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfers between opposite directions.
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Prince Street opened on September 4, 1917 as part of the first section of the BMT Broadway Line from Canal Street to 14th Street – Union Square.[1]
In the late 1970s, 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.
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