Castro Street Station

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Castro Street
Castro Street Station's Outbound Platform
Station statistics
Address	Market, Castro & 17th Streets San Francisco, CA
Lines	K Ingleside      L Taraval      M Ocean View      S Castro Shuttle      T Third Street
Connections	MUNI      F Market & Wharves 24 Divisadero 33 Stanyan 35 Eureka 37 Corbett L Owl
Platforms	Two side
Other information
Opened	November 1982
Accessible

Castro Street Station is a Muni Metro station at the intersection of Market Street, Castro Street, and 17th Street in The Castro district of San Francisco, California. The station consists of two side platforms next to the tracks on the second level down with the concourse mezzanine level overlooking it.

At both Castro Street Station and Church Street Station, there is only one stairway on each side of Market Street leading into the station. (All other stations on the Market Street Subway have entrances spread out along the length of the station.) One of these entrances is located in Harvey Milk Plaza on the south-west corner of Market and Castro, and the other is on the north-west corner of Market and 17th.

The Market Street Subway connects with the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel between Castro Street Station and the now disused Eureka Station. Service at this station began in November 1982.^{[citation needed]}

At the entrance of The Castro, is Harvey Milk Plaza, one of several tributes to Milk in The Castro, which doubles as the Castro District San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) station. An enormous Gay Pride flag flies above and this prophetic quote recalls the Moscone-Milk assassinations and those LGBT people who came out of their closets as a result.^[1]

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• Street map from Mapquest

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