Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

Broadway – Lafayette Street New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	East Houston Street between Broadway & Lafayette Street New York, NY 10012
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	NoHo, SoHo
Coordinates	40.725112°N 73.995667°W / 40.725112; -73.995667
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	B  (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.)       D  (all times)       F  (all times)       M  (weekdays until 11 p.m.)
System transfers	IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4  6  <6> trains) at Bleecker Street (transfer only to southbound trains)
Connection	New York City Bus: M1, M5, M6, M21
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	January 1, 1936 (January 1, 1936)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	11,062,580 (station complex)  6%
Rank	25 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	West Fourth Street – Washington Square: B  D  F  M
Next south	Second Avenue (local): F  Grand Street (express via Chrystie St.): B  D  Essex Street (via Chyrstie St. local): M
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)

Broadway – Lafayette Street is an express station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located on East Houston Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street in Manhattan. It is served by the D and F trains at all times, and the B and M trains on weekdays.

This underground station, opened on January 1, 1936, has four tracks and two island platforms. B and D trains stop at the inner express tracks while F and M trains stop at the outer local tracks. Both outer track walls have a blue trim line on a black border and small "BROADWAY" signs beneath in white lettering on a black border. Large blue columns run along either side of both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate and white lettering.

The center of both platforms have three staircases that go up to a crossover, where wide staircases on either side go up to the station's three fare control areas. The full-time side is at the west end (railroad north). It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of Broadway and East Houston Street. The southeastern one is built inside an alcove of an Adidas Sport Performance Center.

The station's other fare control areas are unstaffed. One set of full height turnstiles lead to two staircases going up to the south side of East Houston Street between Lafayette and Crosby Streets while another set leads to a staircase that goes up to the north side. Here, a free transfer is available to the southbound platform of Bleecker Street of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line at the extreme south end. Due to the large offset of that station's platforms, a free transfer is not available to the northbound platform and access to it requires a one-block walk north to Bleecker Street and payment of an additional fare except to Unlimited-Ride MetroCard holders. This "one-way" transfer is the only one of its kind in the entire system.

A passageway connects the two fare control areas without going through the lower level mezzanine. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2005–2009 capital program allocated $50 million to renovate this station, which includes installation of ADA-accessible elevators and a free transfer to the northbound platform of Bleecker Street. As of December 2010, construction is underway on this renovation.

The 1998 artwork here is called Signal by Mel Chin. It features stainless steel and glass sculptures with lights on the mezzanine walls and ceramic tiles on the platform walls.

West (railroad north) of this station, there are crossovers between the two northbound tracks and a single one between the express tracks. The line turns north along Sixth Avenue and goes through a complex set of switches and crossovers with the IND Eighth Avenue Line before arriving at West Fourth Street – Washington Square.

East (railroad south) of this station, the tracks were reconfigured in 1967 by the Chrystie Street Connection. The express tracks turn south down Chrystie Street and the B and D trains stop at Grand Street before crossing the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn. The local tracks continue east and F trains stop at Second Avenue. A connection from the local tracks leads to Essex Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line. M trains use this connection before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn.

External links

Media related to Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org — IND 6th Avenue: Broadway/Lafayette
• nycsubway.org — Signal Artwork by Mel Chin (1998)
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Broadway – Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street
• Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Lafayette Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

The two street stairs along the north side of East Houston Street between Broadway and Crosby Street

External videos
	Bleecker St Station Expansion, Metropolitan Transportation Authority; February 5, 2010; 1:26 YouTube video clip (construction and rendering phase of the new transfer project between this station and the uptown Bleecker Street platform)