Wall Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

Not to be confused with Wall Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line).

Wall Street  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Downtown train leaving Wall Street
Station statistics
Address	Wall Street & Broadway New York, NY 10006
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District
Coordinates	40.70771°N 74.011717°W / 40.70771; -74.011717
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services	4  (all times) ​   5  (all except late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus: M55, SIM1, SIM2, SIM4, SIM4X, SIM32, SIM34, X27, X28 NJT Bus: 120
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	June 12, 1905 (1905-06-12)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	3,393,094  24.3%
Rank	94 out of 423
Station succession
Next north	Template:NYCS next
Next south	Template:NYCS next
Location
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times
Wall Street Subway Station (IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Under Broadway at Wall Street, New York, NY 10016
Coordinates	40°42′27″N 74°0′44″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1905
Architect	Parsons, William Barclay; Heins, George L., et al
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.	04001011
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.

History

Track layout
to Fulton St to Bowling Green

Downtown entrance at Trinity Church

This station opened on June 12, 1905, as a one-stop extension of the original subway from Fulton Street.

On January 6, 1994, Automated Fare Collection turnstiles went into service at this station, and at the Whitehall Street station.

In 1995, as a result of service reductions, the MTA was considering permanently closing one of the two Wall Street stations, as well as two other stations citywide, due to their proximity to each other. Either the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT Lexington Avenue Line station would have been closed.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Woodlawn (Fulton Street) ← toward Eastchester–Dyre Avenue all times except nights, or Nereid Avenue rush hours (Fulton Street)
	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) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2	Crossunder	Transfer between platforms, passageway to Broad Street

Downtown train of R142 cars arriving

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.

The entrances are covered with curved metal roofs painted green. The metal is sculpted with patterns made to resemble wood or leaves.

There is a crossunder about midway along the length of the platforms, and a lesser-used one at the north end.

Exits

There are three exit areas. On the south end, between Rector Street and Exchange Place, there are two exits to either side of Broadway, with the northbound exits on the east side and the southbound exits on the west side. There 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 stations have a shared exit to the eastern corner of Cedar and Nassau Streets.

On the north end on the southbound side only, there is an exit under the Trinity Building. It has an opulent gold-colored banner proclaiming "SUBWAY ENTRANCE" atop the entrance, which is half a flight below ground. The exit also has a Subway restaurant outside fare control.

Lower Manhattan transit
Franklin Street Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall ​ ( ) ​​ Chambers Street Chambers Street ​ ​ ( ) Chambers Street–WTC City Hall ​ ​ Park Place WTC Cortlandt Cortlandt Street ​ (  HOB   NWK ) World Trade Center Fulton Street ​​​​​​​ Rector Street Rector Street ​ ​ Wall Street Wall Street ​ ​ Bowling Green Broad Street ( ​) ( ) South Ferry/Whitehall Street Whitehall Terminal South Ferry loops

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

• 
  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

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