Broad Street (BMT Nassau Street Line)

Broad Street New York City Subway rapid transit station
Southbound / Terminating platform
Station statistics
Address	Broad Street & Wall Street New York, NY 10005
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Lower Manhattan
Coordinates	40.707059°N 74.01073°W / 40.707059; -74.01073
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Nassau Street Line
Services	J  (weekdays only)       Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1931 (May 30, 1931)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	1,636,627  8.9%
Rank	273 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Fulton Street: J  Z
Next south	(Terminal): J  Z  Court Street: no regular service
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

Broad Street is a station on the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway located at the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets in the Financial District of Manhattan.

This station is the southern terminal of the J train on weekdays and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction. On weekends, J trains terminate at Chambers Street, two stations north. During this time, this station and the BMT portion of the Fulton Street station are closed. These are the only two stations in the system that are not open full-time.

Description

This station has two tracks and two side platforms. South of this station, there are two center stub tracks ending at bumper blocks used for laying-up and relaying trains. Further south, the two tracks of BMT Nassau Street Line merge with the BMT Broadway Line via a flying junction as it enters the Montague Street Tunnel into Downtown Brooklyn. No regular service has used this connection since the M train was re-routed from the Nassau Street Line to the IND Sixth Avenue Line in June 2010.

Trains terminate on the southbound track, then continue to one of the two relay tracks before returning on the northbound track to start service to Brooklyn and Queens.

This station was renovated in the late 1990s and a mosaic design was added the platform walls. Beneath a small green and gold trim-line is a larger gold trim-line with a maroon boarder and white "B" and "BROAD ST" tablets on a blue-green background at regular intervals.

Entrances/Exits

This station has three entrances/exits. The full-time entrance/exit is at the north end above the platforms. Two staircases from each side go up to a mezzanine containing a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside of fare control, two street stairs go up to the southern corners of Wall and Broad Streets. The one outside of the New York Stock Exchange has been closed due to heightened security measures taken after the September 11th attacks.

The other two fare entrances/exits are un-staffed and at platform level. The northbound platform has a part-time bank of both regular and HEET turnstiles and three street stairs, one to the northeast corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place and two along Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street. The southbound platform has turnstiles that were originally HEET access, but were converted to exit-only following the elimination of thru-service at this station, and two staircases to Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street. There was another staircase here leading to the northwest corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place, but it was also closed after the September 11th attacks.

Out of system transfer to Wall Street

Outside of fare control, the station's main entrance/exit has a long passageway to Wall Street on IRT Lexington Avenue Line that is only open weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It first runs north three blocks to the basement of One Chase Manhattan Plaza, where two sets of doors and a wide staircase lead to an unmarked entrance/exit at street level. Halfway through the passageway, a short staircase from the west side leads up to a narrower passageway that runs through the basement of the Equitable Building before two offset High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles provide entrance to the subway system. Inside fare control, the passageway splits in half with each branch leading to either side platform of Wall Street.

That station provides alternate service when Broad Street is not open, but the transfer is not free. Free connections between the BMT Nassau Street Line and IRT Lexington Avenue Line are available at the next three stations north (Fulton Street, Chambers Street, and Canal Street).

Image gallery

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  Grecian revival tablet and frieze circa 1996 from original Vickers design

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  Mezzanine level waiting area at Broad Street exit

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  train at Broad Street

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  Entrance next to 23 Wall Street

External links

• nycsubway.org — BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line: Broad Street
• Station Reporter — J Train