Dyckman Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

Dyckman Street New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Dyckman Street & Nagle Avenue New York, NY 10034
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Inwood
Coordinates	40.861°N 73.925°W / 40.861; -73.925
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1  (all times)
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	March 16, 1906 (March 16, 1906)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	2,237,661  7%
Rank	204 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	207th Street: 1
Next south	191st Street: 1
Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS:	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference#:	04001021
Added to NRHP:	September 17, 2004
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)

Dyckman Street is a station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located roughly at the intersection of Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue in the neighborhood of Inwood, Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times.

This embankment station, opened on March 16, 1906, has two side platforms, two tracks and maintains a level grade. It lies at the northern portal of the Washington Heights Mine Tunnel, which takes the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line through the bedrock of Manhattan. North of the station, the terrain of Upper Manhattan drops abruptly and the line becomes elevated to Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street.

Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies with green frames at the center. A waist-level black fence runs along either side. The platforms are offset as the South Ferry-bound one inclines more to the north than the 242nd Street-bound one. Each platform has two "DYCKMAN ST" mosaics.

The station's only entrance is a station house slightly above ground level at the southern corner of Nagle Avenue, Dyckman Street, and Hillside Avenue. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases to each platform. A 1991 artwork in the waiting area is called Flight by Wopo Holup. It features ceramic relief tiles depicting birds in flight.

This is one of only two elevated Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line stations with two tracks (the other being Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street). A center express track, which is currently unused in revenue service, forms just north of this station and runs nonstop to just south of 242nd Street.

Due to renovation, all South Ferry-bound 1 trains bypass this station until August 2012.

Gallery

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  Tunnel portal

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  A train leaves the station northbound as it crosses over Fort George Hill Road

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  The nearby Inwood Substation, which is also listed on the NRHP.

External links

• nycsubway.org — IRT West Side Line: Dyckman Street
• nycsubway.org — Flight Artwork by Wopo Holup (1991)
• Station Reporter — 1 Train
• The Subway Nut — Dyckman Street Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Dyckman Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
• Dyckman Street entrance from Google Maps Street View