Eighth Street – New York University (BMT Broadway Line)

Eighth Street – New York University New York City Subway rapid transit station
Platform for downtown trains
Station statistics
Address	East Eighth Street & Broadway New York, NY 10003
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Greenwich Village
Coordinates	40.730543°N 73.992448°W / 40.730543; -73.992448
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N  (all times)       R  (all except late nights)
Connection	New York City Bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M8, X27, X28
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	September 4, 1917 (September 4, 1917)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	5,474,109  1.1%
Rank	74 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	14th Street – Union Square: N  R
Next south	Prince Street: N  R
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)

Eighth Street – New York University is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, it is served by the N train at all times and the R train at all times except late nights. It is the closest stop on the Broadway Line to New York University.

History

Eighth Street – NYU opened on September 4, 1917 as part of the first section of the BMT Broadway Line from Canal Street to 14th Street – Union Square. It has four tracks and two side platforms.

The station's overhaul in the late 1970s included 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.

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External links

Media related to 8th Street – NYU (BMT Broadway Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• 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