Eighth Street–New York University (BMT Broadway Line)
8th Street–New York University | |||||||||||||
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New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||||||
Platform for downtown trains | |||||||||||||
Station statistics | |||||||||||||
Address |
East 8th Street & Broadway New York, NY 10003 | ||||||||||||
Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||
Locale | Greenwich Village, NoHo | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°43′50″N 73°59′33″W / 40.730543°N 73.992448°WCoordinates: 40°43′50″N 73°59′33″W / 40.730543°N 73.992448°W | ||||||||||||
Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||
Line | BMT Broadway Line | ||||||||||||
Services |
N (weekends and late nights) Q (late nights only) R (all except late nights) W (weekdays only) | ||||||||||||
Transit connections | NYCT Bus: M1, M2, M3, M55, M8, X27, X28 | ||||||||||||
Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Opened | September 4, 1917[1] | ||||||||||||
Station code | 016[2] | ||||||||||||
Wireless service | [3] | ||||||||||||
Former/other names | 8th Street-NYU | ||||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||||
Passengers (2016) | 6,030,544[4] 2.3% | ||||||||||||
Rank | 72 out of 422 | ||||||||||||
Station succession | |||||||||||||
Next north | 14th Street–Union Square: N Q R W | ||||||||||||
Next south | Prince Street: N Q R W | ||||||||||||
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8th Street–New York University is a local station on the New York City Subway's BMT Broadway Line. Located at the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, it is served by the R train at all times except late nights, the W train on weekdays, the N train during weekends and late nights and the Q train during late nights. It is so named because it is the closest stop on the Broadway Line to New York University.
Station layout
G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Southbound local | ← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach weekends and late nights ( via Brighton late nights) (Prince Street) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Prince Street) ← toward Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (Prince Streetl) | |
Southbound express | ← do not stop here | |
Northbound express | → do not stop here → | |
Northbound local | → weekdays ( weekends and late nights) toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (14th Street–Union Square) → → toward 96th Street late nights (14th Street–Union Square) → → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (14th Street–Union Square) → | |
Eighth 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] It has four tracks and two side platforms. The inner two tracks are express tracks that do not serve the station.
The station's overhaul in the late 1960s included extending the station platforms required for 10 car trains, and fixing the station's structure and the overall appearance (including the staircases and platform edges), replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. In 2001, the station received a state of repairs including upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading 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.
In 2005, the artwork Tim Snell's Broadway Diary mosaics installed on the station platform wall titles in both directions.
Exits
The staffed fare control for each platform is at platform level at the center of each platform. There is no free transfer between directions. Outside of fare control, the northbound platform has one street stair to each eastern corner of Broadway and Eighth Street, while the southbound platform has two street stairs to each western corner of that intersection.[5]
Near the southern ends of each platform, one stair ascends from each platform to an intermediate landing on each side. Each landing has an exit-only turnstile and a HEET turnstile. The exits then ascend to their respective northern corners of Broadway and Waverly Place (the southbound platform's exit to the northwest corner, the northbound platform's exit to the northeast corner).[5]
References
- 1 2 "Open First Section of Broadway Line". New York Times. September 5, 1917.
- ↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2011–2016". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 31, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- 1 2 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: East Village" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eighth Street – New York University (BMT Broadway Line). |
- nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Subway: 8th Street
- Station Reporter – N Train
- Station Reporter – R Train
- Flickr – Photo of Tim Snell's Cube mural
- Wired New York Forum – Subway mosaics and their artists
- MTA's Arts For Transit – 8th Street–NYU (BMT Broadway Line)
- Eighth Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Waverly Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View