Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
Spring Street | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Address |
Spring Street & Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locale | Hudson Square, SoHo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°43′32″N 74°00′15″W / 40.725503°N 74.004035°WCoordinates: 40°43′32″N 74°00′15″W / 40.725503°N 74.004035°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Division | B (IND) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line | IND Eighth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Services |
A (late nights) C (all except late nights) E (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | September 10, 1932[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Passengers (2014) | 3,965,206[2] 2.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 124 out of 421 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Station succession | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next north | West Fourth Street – Washington Square: A C E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Next south | Canal Street: A C E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Spring Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Spring Street and Sixth Avenue in the Hudson Square and SoHo neighborhoods of lower Manhattan, it is served by the C and E trains, the former of which is replaced by the A train during late nights.
Spring Street opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the original operating segment of the Independent Subway System (IND) from Chambers Street to Inwood – 207th Street.[1] Extensions southward in 1933 and 1936 brought direct access to Brooklyn on the IND Fulton Street Line, while service from Spring Street to Queens became possible with the opening of the IND Queens Boulevard Line in August 1933 to Jackson Heights. The station has numerous closed exits.[3]
Station layout
G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance |
B1 Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Northbound local | ← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (West Fourth Street – Washington Square) ← toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (West Fourth Street – Washington Square) | |
Northbound express | ← does not stop here | |
Southbound express | → does not stop here → | |
Southbound local | → toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (Canal Street) → → toward World Trade Center (Canal Street) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
B2 | - | Crossunder between platforms |
Like most local subway stations, Spring Street has two side platforms and four tracks. The two center express tracks are used by the A train during daytime hours. A crossunder just within fare control allows a free transfer between directions.
All fare control areas are at platform level. The station's main ones are at the south end of the platform. Each contains banks of regular and HEET turnstiles, a token booth, and a single staircase going up to Spring Street and Sixth Avenue. The one on the northbound side is built inside a school building and leads to the northeast corner while the one on the southbound side leads to the northwest corner. The southbound platform has an un-staffed HEET entrance that has a single staircase going up to the southwest corner of Vandam Street and Sixth Avenue.
Wall tiling suggests that fare controls and a crossunder have been removed from the north end of the station. The platforms have a blue trim line on a dark blue border (ultramarine blue and cobalt blue, with replacement tiles at the north end that are ultramarine blue and navy blue).[4] The name tablets consist of "SPRING ST" in white sans-serif font on a dark blue background with a lighter blue border. Beneath the trim line and name tablets are "SPRING" and directional signs in white lettering on a black border tiled onto the walls. Blue I-beam columns run along the entire length of both platforms, with every other one having the standard black and white station signs.
Artwork
In December 1984, artist Chilean Alfredo Jaar rented all the ad space in the station for the month, and put up an installation he called "Rushes", showing 81 photos he had taken of workers in Serra Palada, Brazil of poor workers digging in government-run gold mines with their hands and primitive tools, along with world oil prices.[5][6][7]
The 1994 artwork installed at the stairway of the northbound platform's fare control is a large, lively mosaic called New York City Subway Station by Edith Kramer.[8] It consists of a single painting depicting 14th Street – Union Square on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2015-04-28.
- ↑ "C Train". Stationreporter.net. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ "IND Station Tile Colors". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ Michael W. Brooks. Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
- ↑ Tracy Fitzpatrick (May 30, 2009). Art and the Subway: New York Underground. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
- ↑ "IN THE SUBWAYS; A Little Digging Yields Clues to the Revolution". Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "subway station art". Ephemeral New York. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
External links
Media related to Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons
- nycsubway.org—IND 8th Avenue: Spring Street
- nycsubway.org — New York Subway Station Artwork by Edith Kramer (1994)
- Station Reporter — C Train
- Station Reporter — E Train
- Spring Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Vandam Street entrance from Google Maps Street View