Fulton Street station (New York City Subway)
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| Address | Fulton Street between Broadway & Nassau Street New York, NY 10007 | ||||||||||
| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||
| Locale | Financial District | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′36.74″N 74°0′27.88″W / 40.7102056°N 74.0077444°W | ||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT), B (BMT, IND)[1] | ||||||||||
| Line | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line BMT Nassau Street Line | ||||||||||
| Services | 2  (all times) 3  (all except late nights)4 (all times) 5 (all except late nights)A (all times) C (all except late nights)J (all times) Z  (rush hours, peak direction) | ||||||||||
| Transit |  NYCT Bus: M5, X1, X3, X4, X17, X19, X27, X28 | ||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||
| Levels | 3 (Eighth Avenue Line platforms bisect the other 3 lines; Nassau Street platforms are on 2 levels) | ||||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1948[2] | ||||||||||
| Accessible |  ADA-accessible | ||||||||||
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| 2023 | 17,887,203[3]  19.5% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 5 out of 423[3] | ||||||||||
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Fulton Street is a New York City Subway station complex in Lower Manhattan. It consists of four linked stations on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Nassau Street Line and the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. The last three cross Fulton Street at Broadway, Nassau Street, and William Street respectively; the Eighth Avenue Line station is underneath Fulton Street, between Broadway and Nassau Streets. The station is the eleventh busiest in the system, as of 2013, with 20,102,397 passengers.[4] The complex is served by the:
- 2, 4, A, and J trains at all times
- 3, 5, and C trains at all times except late nights
- Z train during rush hours in the peak direction
The Fulton Center is a renovation project that improves access throughout the station complex, introduces a new station building, and provides easier access to the World Trade Center site. It links the Fulton Street subway station with the nearby Cortlandt Street and Chambers Street stations through the out-of-fare control Dey Street Passageway. The Fulton Center opened on November 10, 2014.
IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms
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| Division | A (IRT)[1] | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Lexington Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services | 4 (all times) 5 (all except late nights) | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | January 16, 1905 | ||||||||
| Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||
| Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||
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| 2023 | 17,887,203[3] 19.5% | ||||||||
| Rank | 5 out of 423[3] | ||||||||
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Fulton Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line with two tracks and two side platforms.
History
Opened on January 16, 1905 as part of a one-stop extension southbound from Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall.[5] This marked the first time that the subway had been extended further downtown and towards Brooklyn; the previous terminus, Brooklyn Bridge, was also the original subway's southern end.
Originally, only the southbound platform was ADA-accessible. In October 2012, a new entrance on Dey Street opened for the Dey Street underpass to Cortlandt Street, and an ADA-accessible elevator was installed for the southbound platform. In November 2014, the northbound platform became accessible through an elevator to the underpass that connected to the southbound platform.
Despite being on the Lexington Avenue Line, the station actually lies underneath Broadway between Cortlandt and Fulton Streets, as the line takes its name from its Upper East Side trunk avenue. A number of exits to street level are available at Dey, John, and Fulton Streets, while the connecting passage to the other stations within the Fulton Street complex lies underneath the latter.
Because the local tracks loop at the abandoned City Hall station to the north, Fulton Street has only two tracks and two side platforms. The station, which is now a registered New York City Landmark, features a mosaic of the steamboat built by Robert Fulton. The southbound platform incorporates an ornate entrance to the building at 195 Broadway, which features fluted columns, engraved metal signs, ornate railings, and blacked out store windows.
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An R142 in Template:NYCS-bull-small service at Fulton Street, bound for Bowling Green.
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Further reading
- Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0
IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line platform
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| Division | A (IRT)[1] | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services | 2 (all times) 3 (all except late nights) | ||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | August 1, 1918 | ||||||||
| Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||
| Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||
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| 2023 | 17,887,203[3] 19.5% | ||||||||
| Rank | 5 out of 423[3] | ||||||||
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Fulton Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line opened on August 1, 1918 as part of an extension towards Brooklyn. It originally opened to a temporary terminus at Wall Street before the Clark Street Tunnel could open.
Fulton Street station has a standard local configuration of two tracks and one island platform. Brooklyn-bound trains use track K2 while uptown trains use track K3. These designations come from track chaining which measures track distances and are not used in normal conversation. Based on this chaining, Fulton Street is about 19,700 ft (3.73 mi) from post zero at Broadway and 44th Street since this is where the West Side Line "merges" with the 42nd Street Shuttle. This is slightly non-standard signage because it is a local station using express track numbers as these tracks become the express tracks on the main line, providing a reasonable explanation.
The station has two mezzanines, separated at Fulton Street. The full-time entrance is to the south mezzanine, at the southeast corner of Fulton and William Streets. There are also part-time entrances mid-block on William Street, and through an office building on John Street. The north mezzanine is open part-time, with an entrance through an office building on the northeast corner of Fulton and William Streets. Like Wall Street, the next station south, there is a narrow island platform and a number of comparatively narrow staircases up to the mezzanine level.
There is an ADA-accessible elevator from platform level to the mezzanine at the platform's extreme south end, connecting to the mezzanine, which has elevators to the rest of the station via the IND Eighth Avenue Line platform.
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Entrance at William Street and Fulton Street
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BMT Nassau Street Line platforms
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| Division | B (BMT)[1] | ||||||||
| Line | BMT Nassau Street Line | ||||||||
| Services | J (all times) Z (rush hours, peak direction) | ||||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms (1 on each level) | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 (1 on each level) | ||||||||
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| Opened | May 30, 1931[6] | ||||||||
| Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||
| Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||
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| 2023 | 17,887,203[3] 19.5% | ||||||||
| Rank | 5 out of 423[3] | ||||||||
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Fulton Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line has two tracks and two side platforms, with downtown trains on the upper level and uptown trains on the lower level due to the narrowness of Nassau Street. The station has an unusual layout. The entrance for uptown trains is on the west side of Nassau Street, and the entrance for downtown trains is on the east side of Nassau Street (the reverse of what one would normally expect). It is possible to cross between the uptown and downtown sides via the IND platform, which passes underneath both levels of this station.
Exits are to Nassau Street and Fulton Street. There is a south exit to John Street that is open only during rush hours and a sealed north end exit to Ann Street and passageway to Beekman Street and Pace University to the far north. This passageway was out of system and more than one block long.
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IND Eighth Avenue Line platform
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 The IND Eighth Avenue Line platform. Note the name sign saying the station's former name, "Broadway – Nassau Street". | |||||||||
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| Division | B (IND)[1] | ||||||||
| Line | IND Eighth Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services | A (all times) C (all except late nights) | ||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | February 1, 1933[7] | ||||||||
| Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||
| Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||
| Former/other names | Broadway – Nassau Street | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| 2023 | 17,887,203[3] 19.5% | ||||||||
| Rank | 5 out of 423[3] | ||||||||
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Fulton Street (formerly Broadway – Nassau Street) on the IND Eighth Avenue Line has two tracks and one island platform. The station is located approximately sixty feet below ground level. Similar to other stations near it, Fulton Street utilizes a tube station design because of its depth. The tile on this station is colored purple, with wall tiles reading "FULTON". An alternating pattern of "BWAY" and "NASSAU" was the original tiling until recently. The station adopted the "Fulton Street" name in December 2010 to become unified with the other platforms in the station complex.[8] Overhead and column signage carry the new name.
There are two sets of artwork here. One is the Marine Grill Murals, salvaged from the restaurant of the same name in the Hotel McAlpin, located at the William Street entrance (originally on the mezzanine) and the other is Nancy Holt's Astral Grating, also on the mezzanine.
Elevators lead from this platform's mezzanine to the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line platforms and to both of the BMT Nassau Street Line's platforms. There is an elevator to street level at the southwestern corner of William and Fulton Streets.
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Cliff Street Substation supplies power
Station layout
Template:NYCS Platform Layout Fulton Street Station
Notable places nearby
References
- ^ a b c d e "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ New York Times, Transfer Points Under Higher Fare, June 30, 1948, page 19
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ a b "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ^ Subway at Fulton Street busy New York Times Retrieved January 03, 2010
- ^ New York Times, Mayor Drives Train in New Subway Link, May 30, 1931, page 11
- ^ New York Times, City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, February 1, 1933, page 19
- ^ http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/FultonStreetStation.htm
External links
nycsubway.org:
- nycsubway.org – IRT East Side Line: Fulton Street
- nycsubway.org – IRT West Side Line: Fulton Street
- nycsubway.org – BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line: Fulton Street
- nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: Broadway/Nassau Street
- nycsubway.org — Marine Grill Murals, 1913 Artwork by Fred Dana Marsh (2000)
- nycsubway.org — Astral Grating Artwork by Nancy Holt (1987)
Station Reporter:
- Station Reporter — Broadway Nassau/Fulton Street Complex[dead link]
MTA's Arts For Transit:
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Fulton Street/William Street
Google Street View:
- Broadway & Dey Street entrance (Dey Street Headhouse) from Google Maps Street View
- Broadway & Fulton Street entrance (street) from Google Maps Street View
- Broadway & Fulton Street entrance (Fulton Center building) from Google Maps Street View
- Broadway & John Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Broadway, Maiden Lane, and Cortlandt Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Nassau Street & Fulton Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Nassau Street & John Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- William Street & Fulton Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Lexington Avenue Line platforms from Google Maps Street View
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