Dyckman Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

For the station actually at Dyckman Street and Broadway, see Dyckman Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

Dyckman Street
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station platforms
Station statistics
Address	Dyckman Street & Nagle Avenue New York, NY 10034
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Inwood
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1  (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus: M100 MTA Bus: BxM1
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	March 12, 1906 (1906-03-12)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	1,512,897  3.1%
Rank	214 out of 423
Station succession
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Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.	04001021
Added to NRHP	September 17, 2004

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.

History

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to 242 St to 207 St to 191 St

The West Side Branch of the first subway was extended northward to a temporary terminus of 221st Street and Broadway on March 12, 1906 with the first open station at Dyckman Street, as the stations at 168th Street, 181st Street, and 191st Street were not yet completed. This extension was served by shuttle trains operating between 157th Street and 221st Street until May 30, 1906 when express trains began running through to 221st Street.

In 1948, platforms on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line from 103rd Street to 238th Street were lengthened to 514 feet to allow full ten-car express trains to platform. Previously the stations could only platform six car local trains. The platform extensions were opened in stages. On April 6, 1948, the stations from 103rd Street to Dyckman Street had their platform extensions opened, with the exception of the 125th Street, which had its opened on June 11, 1948.

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform, doors open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (207th Street) (No service: Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street)
	Southbound	→ toward South Ferry (191st Street) →
	Side platform, doors open on the right
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent Ramp to station house; elevators at southwest corner of Hillside Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue and Fort George Hill.
G	Street level	Exit/entrance

This embankment station 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 aboveground Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line stations with two tracks (the other being 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.

The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the nearby Substation 17.

Handicapped access

In February 2014, as part of an ongoing rehabilitation, the MTA built a ramp from street level to the mezzanine and opened an elevator to connect the southbound platform to the mezzanine. The elevator, which was not originally planned in the station renovation, was built due to a lawsuit by the United Spinal Association. The elevator is of a "machine room-less" design and is the first of its type to be installed in the New York City Subway system. The renovations also included rehabilitation of the tunnel portal, realignment and rehabilitation of the platforms and installation of new cast iron lighting fixtures.

The southbound elevator is located at the southwest corner of Hillside Avenue, St. Nicholas Avenue, and Fort George Hill, and is accessible by a ramp to the station house.

This station is not accessible to the disabled on the northbound side because the suit was settled only after the northbound side was already renovated, and in any case, the area's geography made it prohibitively expensive to add an elevator to the northbound platform.

Image gallery

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  Platforms before renovation
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  Platforms during renovation
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  Platforms after renovation
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  Looking at the downtown platform
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  Facade
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  Inside headhouse
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  Elevator inside
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  Tunnel portal
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  The nearby Inwood Substation

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
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View