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Fulton Street station (New York City Subway)

Coordinates: 40°42′36.74″N 74°0′27.88″W / 40.7102056°N 74.0077444°W / 40.7102056; -74.0077444
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This article is about the station complex in Manhattan. For the renovation of that complex, see Fulton Center. For the station on the IND Crosstown Line, see Fulton Street (IND Crosstown Line). For other uses, see Fulton Street (disambiguation).

 Fulton Street
 "2" train​"3" train​"4" train​"5" train​"A" train​"C" train​"J" train​"Z" train
New York City Subway station complex
Turnstiles in the Fulton Center
Station statistics
AddressFulton Street between Broadway & Nassau Street
New York, NY 10007
BoroughManhattan
LocaleFinancial District
Coordinates40°42′36.74″N 74°0′27.88″W / 40.7102056°N 74.0077444°W / 40.7102056; -74.0077444
DivisionA (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 (all times)
​   3 all except late nights (all except late nights)​
   4 all times (all times)
​   5 all except late nights (all except late nights)​
   A all times (all times)
​   C all except late nights (all except late nights)​
   J all times (all times)
​   Z rush hours, peak direction (rush hours, peak direction)
TransitBus transport NYCT Bus: M55, SIM1, SIM2, SIM4, SIM4X, SIM32, SIM34, X27, X28
At Cortlandt Street via Fulton Center:
   N late nights (late nights)
​   R all except late nights (all except late nights)
​   W weekdays only (weekdays only)
StructureUnderground
Levels3 (Eighth Avenue Line platforms bisect the other 3 lines; Nassau Street platforms are on 2 levels)
Other information
OpenedJuly 1, 1948; 76 years ago (1948-07-01)[2]
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Traffic
202317,887,203[3] Increase 19.5%
Rank5 out of 423[3]
Location
Fulton Street station (New York City Subway) is located in New York City Subway
Fulton Street station (New York City Subway)
Fulton Street station (New York City Subway) is located in New York City
Fulton Street station (New York City Subway)
Fulton Street station (New York City Subway) is located in New York
Fulton Street station (New York City Subway)
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

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 seventh busiest in the system, as of 2017, with 26,838,473 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/World Trade Center stations (the latter one stop north on the A, C, 2 and 3 trains) and the World Trade Center Transportation Hub through the out-of-fare control Dey Street Passageway. The Fulton Center opened on November 10, 2014.[5]

Station layout

Template:NYCS Platform Layout Fulton Street Station

Fulton St to Cortlandt St subway cross-section
Greenwich St WTC Transportation
Hub (Oculus) /
Westfield Shops 		Church St Broadway Fulton
Center /
Westfield
Shops 		Nassau St William St
1 R / W 4 / 5 J / Z south mezzanine
underpass underpass Dey Street Passageway underpass mezzanine J / Z north mezzanine 2 / 3
mezzanine ← A / C →
PATH
This box:


Lower Manhattan transit
Legend
"1" train Franklin Street
Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall "4" train​"5" train (arrow for u "6" train)
"1" train​"2" train​"3" train Chambers Street
Chambers Street "J" train​"Z" train
"A" train​"C" train (arrow for u "E" train) Chambers Street–WTC
City Hall "R" train​"W" train
"2" train​"3" train Park Place
"1" train WTC Cortlandt
Cortlandt Street "R" train​"W" train
(arrow for l  HOB   NWK ) World Trade Center
Fulton Street "2" train​"3" train​"4" train​"5" train​"A" train​"C" train​"J" train​"Z" train
"1" train Rector Street
Rector Street "R" train​"W" train
"4" train​"5" train Wall Street
Wall Street "2" train​"3" train
"4" train​"5" train Bowling Green
Broad Street (arrow for u "J" train​"Z" train)
"R" train (arrow for u "1" train "W" train) South Ferry/Whitehall Street
Whitehall Terminal
South Ferry loops

IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms

 Fulton Street
 "4" train​"5" train
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Uptown platform
Station statistics
DivisionA (IRT)[1]
Line   IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services   4 all times (all times)
​   5 all except late nights (all except late nights)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedJanuary 16, 1905; 119 years ago (1905-01-16)
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
202317,887,203[3] Increase 19.5%
Rank5 out of 423[3]
Station succession
Next northTemplate:NYCS next
Next southTemplate:NYCS next
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Track layout
Legend
to Brooklyn Bridge
to Wall St
An R142 in 5 service at Fulton Street, bound for Bowling Green.
Tilework trim detail

Fulton Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line with two tracks and two side platforms.

History

This station opened on January 16, 1905 as part of a one-stop extension southbound from Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall. Only the northbound platform was in use when service started at this station.[6] The southbound platform opened for service on June 12, 1905, when the subway was extended one stop to the south at Wall Street.[7][8] 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.[9] In November 2014, the northbound platform became accessible through an elevator to the underpass that connected to the southbound platform.

The station, which is now a registered New York City Landmark, features a mosaic of the steamboat built by Robert Fulton.[10] 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.

Exits

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.[11] Southbound exits are located at:

  • Two stairs, NW corner of Fulton Street and Broadway[11]
  • One stair, SW corner of Fulton Street and Broadway[11]
  • One stair, NW corner of Dey Street and Broadway[11]
  • Disabled access One stair, one elevator, and passageway, SW corner of Dey Street and Broadway[11]
  • One stair, NW corner of Cortlandt Street and Broadway[11]

Northbound exits are located at:

  • Disabled access Fulton Center building, SE corner of Fulton Street and Broadway[11]
  • One stair, NE corner of John Street and Broadway[11]
  • One stair, SE corner of John Street and Broadway[11]
  • One stair, NE corner of Cortlandt Street and Broadway[11]
  • Column
    Column
  • Name plaque
    Name plaque
  • 33 Maiden Lane
    33 Maiden Lane
  • 140 West Street
    140 West Street
  • Dey Street stair
    Dey Street stair

Further reading

  • Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0

IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platform

 Fulton Street
 "2" train​"3" train
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
DivisionA (IRT)[1]
Line   IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services   2 all times (all times)
​   3 all except late nights (all except late nights)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedJuly 1, 1918; 106 years ago (1918-07-01)
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
202317,887,203[3] Increase 19.5%
Rank5 out of 423[3]
Station succession
Next northTemplate:NYCS next
Next southTemplate:NYCS next
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekdays during the day
Stops weekdays and weekday late nights Stops weekdays and weekday late nights
Track layout
Legend
to Park Pl
to Wall St

The Fulton Street station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was built on the portion of the line built as part of the Dual Contracts, which is the section south of Times Square–42nd Street. The line first opened as a shuttle to 34th Street–Penn Station on June 3, 1917,[12][13] and then south to South Ferry on July 1, 1918. On this same date, the Fulton Street station opened, with service to the station running as a shuttle between Chambers Street and Wall Street, on the line's Brooklyn Branch.[14] On August 1, 1918, the new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square.[15] As a result, shuttle service to this station was replaced by through service.[16]

During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Fulton Street, along with those at four other stations on the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, were lengthened to 525 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 51-foot IRT cars.[17]

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.

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. The Marine Grill Murals, salvaged from the restaurant of the same name in the Hotel McAlpin, reside near these elevators.

Exits

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.[11]

  • Former entrance in doorway of Royal Building. This stair is currently boarded up.
    Former entrance in doorway of Royal Building. This stair is currently boarded up.
  • Entrance at William Street and Fulton Street
    Entrance at William Street and Fulton Street

BMT Nassau Street Line platforms

 Fulton Street
 "J" train​"Z" train
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Broad Street-bound platform
Station statistics
DivisionB (BMT)[1]
Line   BMT Nassau Street Line
Services   J all times (all times)
​   Z rush hours, peak direction (rush hours, peak direction)
Levels2
Platforms2 side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks2 (1 on each level)
Other information
OpenedMay 29, 1931; 93 years ago (1931-05-29)[18]
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
202317,887,203[3] Increase 19.5%
Rank5 out of 423[3]
Station succession
Next northTemplate:NYCS next
Next southTemplate:NYCS next
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
style="color:white;background:#Template:NYCS color;text-align:center;padding:5px"|
Track layout
Legend
to Chambers St
Superimposed track section
(Right track above left one)
to Broad St
Upper level
Lower level

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.[19] The station is ADA-accessible via the use of elevators to the IND platform, which then leads to the ADA-accessible Fulton Center main building.

Exits

Exit stairs rise to all four corners of Nassau Street and Fulton Street, with the eastern stairs for the southbound platform and the western stairs for the northbound platform. On the south end of the southbound platform, there are exits to either eastern corner of John and Nassau Streets that are open only during rush hours.[11]

There is 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.[11][19]

IND Eighth Avenue Line platform

 Fulton Street
 "A" train​"C" train
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
The IND Eighth Avenue Line platform
Station statistics
DivisionB (IND)[1]
Line   IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services   A all times (all times)
​   C all except late nights (all except late nights)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedFebruary 1, 1933; 91 years ago (1933-02-01)[20]
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Former/other namesBroadway – Nassau Street
Traffic
202317,887,203[3] Increase 19.5%
Rank5 out of 423[3]
Station succession
Next northTemplate:NYCS next
Next southTemplate:NYCS next
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Track layout
Legend
to Chambers St
to High St

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 (18m) 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. The station adopted the "Fulton Street" name in December 2010 to become unified with the other platforms in the station complex.[21] Overhead and column signage carry the new name.

An Arts for Transit piece, Nancy Holt's Astral Grating, was formerly located on the mezzanine but was removed during renovation.

Elevators lead from this line's platform to the mezzanines for the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platform, both of the BMT Nassau Street Line's platforms, and both of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line's platforms. There is an elevator to street level at the southwestern corner of William and Fulton Streets.

Exits

The IND platform can be accessed via the entrances to any of the three other stations, but the BMT platforms' entrances provide the most direct access.[11]

  • Mezzanine before reconstruction. Note the Marine Grill Murals on the walls
    Mezzanine before reconstruction. Note the Marine Grill Murals on the walls
  • Cliff Street Substation supplies power
    Cliff Street Substation supplies power

Notable places nearby

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ New York Times, Transfer Points Under Higher Fare, June 30, 1948, page 19
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  5. ^ "MTA | news | Welcome to the New Fulton Center". www.mta.info. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  6. ^ "Subway at Fulton Street Busy" (PDF). Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  7. ^ "SUBWAY TRAINS RUN AGAIN THIS MORNING; Through Service Promised for the rush-Hour Crowds. TUNNEL PUMPED OUT AT LAST Big Water Main That Burst Was an Old One, Pressed Into Service Again After a Five-Hour Watch" (PDF). Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  8. ^ "SUBWAY TO WALL ST. OPEN IN TEN DAYS; And All the Way to the Bronx by July 1. WHOLE ROAD READY IN AUGUST As to the Air Therein, William Barclay Parsons Says It Is Pure and Can't Be Bettered" (PDF). Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  9. ^ "MTA | Press Release | MTA Headquarters | New Dey Street Entrance Opened". www.mta.info. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  10. ^ "The ships of the Fulton Street subway station". Ephemeral New York. December 6, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  12. ^ "Three New Links of the Dual Subway System Opened, Including a Shuttle Service from Times Square to Thirty-Fourth Street — Service on the Jerome Avenue Branch From 149th Street North to About 225th Street Began Yesterday Afternoon — The Event Celebrated by Bronx Citizens and Property Owners — The Seventh Avenue Connection Opened This Morning" (PDF). The New York Times. June 3, 1917. p. 1. Retrieved November 6, 2016. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  13. ^ "Annual report. 1916-1917". HathiTrust. Interborough Rapid Transit Company. December 12, 2013. p. 22. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  14. ^ "Open New Subway to Regular Traffic — First Train on Seventh Avenue Line Carries Mayor and Other Officials — To Serve Lower West Side — Whitney Predicts an Awakening of the District — New Extensions of Elevated Railroad Service" (PDF). The New York Times. July 2, 1918. p. 11. Retrieved November 6, 2016. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "Open New Subway Lines to Traffic; Called a Triumph — Great H System Put in Operation Marks an Era in Railroad Construction — No Hitch in the Plans — But Public Gropes Blindly to Find the Way in Maze of New Stations — Thousands Go Astray — Leaders in City's Life Hail Accomplishment of Great Task at Meeting at the Astor" (PDF). The New York Times. August 2, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved November 6, 2016. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  16. ^ Whitney, Travis H. (March 10, 1918). "The Seventh and Lexington Avenue Subways Will Revive Dormant Sections — Change in Operation That Will Transform Original Four-Tracked Subway Into Two Four-Tracked Systems and Double Present Capacity of the Interborough" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 12. Retrieved August 26, 2016. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ Annual Report 1964–1965. New York City Transit Authority. 1965.
  18. ^ New York Times, Mayor Drives Train in New Subway Link, May 30, 1931, page 11
  19. ^ a b "Broadway Nassau Fulton Street Complex". April 27, 2005. Archived from the original on April 27, 2005. Retrieved July 4, 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ New York Times, City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, February 1, 1933, page 19
  21. ^ http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/FultonStreetStation.htm
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