Wall Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
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 New York City Subway station (rapid transit) | |||||||||
 Downtown train leaving Wall Street | |||||||||
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| Address | Wall Street & Broadway New York, NY 10006 | ||||||||
| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||
| Locale | Financial District | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT)[1] | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Lexington Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services | 4  (all times) 5  (all except late nights) | ||||||||
| Transit |  NYCT Bus: M5, X1, X2, X3, X4, X17, X19, X27, X28 NJT Bus: 120 | ||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | June 12, 1905 | ||||||||
| Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| 2023 | 3,393,094[2]  24.3% | ||||||||
| Rank | 94 out of 423[2] | ||||||||
| Station succession | |||||||||
| Next north | Template:NYCS next | ||||||||
| Next south | Template:NYCS next | ||||||||
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Wall Street Subway Station (IRT) | |||||||||
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| Location | Under Broadway at Wall Street, New York, NY 10016 | ||||||||
| Area | less than one acre | ||||||||
| Built | 1905 | ||||||||
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts | ||||||||
| MPS | New York City Subway System MPS | ||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 04001011[3] | ||||||||
| Added to NRHP | September 17, 2004 | ||||||||
Wall Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street. It is served by the 4 train at all times and the 5 train at all times except late nights.
Station layout
| G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
| B1 Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Northbound | ← toward Woodlawn (Fulton Street) ← toward Nereid Avenue PM rush hours, Dyre Avenue all times (Fulton Street)
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| Southbound | → toward Crown Heights – Utica Avenue ( toward New Lots Avenue late nights) (Bowling Green) → → toward Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College weekdays, Bowling Green weekends (Bowling Green) →
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| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| B2 | Crossunder | Transfer between platforms, passageway to Broad Street |
Wall Street is an underground, two-tracked station, with two side platforms that are slightly offset from one another.
The standard IRT name tablet mosaics are original as well as the fancy ceiling accents and the iron pillars. On the southbound platform is a wooden token booth and ticket chopper, wooden restroom doors on each side. The walls on the platforms are clad in pink stone at the bottom, followed by white tiles, the name of the station in white letters and blue mosaics, and decorated tiles at the top. The top part is decorated with tiles depicting vines or artistic depictions of a New Amsterdam stapled colonial house with the palisade wall in front of it, which gave today's Wall Street its name.
There is a crossunder about midway along the length of the platforms, and a lesser-used one at the north end. At street level are faux kiosks on the southbound side. A complex underground passageway exists outside the fare control which connects to the Broad Street station on the BMT Nassau Street Line, and to the Wall Street station on the Brooklyn Branch of the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. This passageway also leads to the Chase Manhattan Plaza and the old Equitable Building.
The entrances are covered with curved metal roofs painted green. The metal is sculpted with patterns made to resemble wood or leaves.
Renovation
The original white tiles from the early 20th century were walled over with glossy dark blue tiles in the 1970s, with only the name of station allowed to stay. Similar remodeling work was done during that time with 51st Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, using beige tiles.
In 2006, a project to renovate/restore the station back to its original appearance began. As of May 2006, the blue tiles mentioned above had been removed and remnants of the original white tile-work exposed. The condition of the original tiles were fair to poor to completely missing. All missing tiles were refitted based on original models.
Image gallery
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Depiction of the wall of New Amsterdam on a mosaic tile -
Old wooden ticket booth -
View of the wall, consisting of pink stone at the bottom, white tiles, the mosaic name of the station and further artful tiles -
Decorated ceiling elements
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
Further reading
- Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0
External links
- nycsubway.org – IRT East Side Line: Wall Street
- Wall Street - Rector Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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