York Street station (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

York Street
York Street
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
	Station platform
Station statistics
Address	York Street & Jay Street; Brooklyn, NY 11201
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Dumbo
Coordinates	40°42′06″N 73°59′12″W / 40.701529°N 73.986783°W
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	F (all times) <F> (two rush hour trains, peak direction)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B67; NYC Ferry: East River and South Brooklyn routes (at Old Fulton Street and Furman Street)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 88 years ago
Opposite-; direction; transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	3,345,474 31.1%
Rank	96 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

York Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the F train at all times, it is located at York Street and Jay Street in DUMBO and is the only Sixth Avenue Line station in Brooklyn.

History

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Track layout

Legend

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More than 50 years before the construction of the IND Sixth Avenue Line, let alone the station, the intersection of York and Jay Streets was between two stations on the original BMT Lexington Avenue Line. West of the intersection was York and Washington Streets station, which had a connection to the Brooklyn Bridge via the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway. One block east of the station was the Bridge Street station. The line and the two stations ran west to east, were built by Brooklyn Elevated Railroad on May 13, 1885^[4] and closed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit on April 11, 1904.^[5]

Mass transit returned to the vicinity when the York Street subway station opened on April 9, 1936,^[6] as part of an extension of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from East Broadway to Jay Street, although this was more accurately a replacement for the IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan. The IND Fulton Street Line to Rockaway Avenue opened on the same day.^[6]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
		Ramp to Exits, double-wide staircase to platform level
B2	Northbound	← toward Jamaica – 179th Street (East Broadway)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Jay Street – MetroTech) →

This underground, deep-level station has two tracks and one narrow island platform. Located at the southern end of the Rutgers Street Tunnel, it has round deep-bore walls with matte-finish white brick tiling and purple tile border; this tiling scheme is also present on the large, circular platform columns at the center of the station. The standard I-beam columns are painted blue with alternating ones having black name plates in white lettering.

To the north of the station, the Sixth Avenue Line continues via the Rutgers Street Tunnel to Manhattan; to the south, it converges with the IND Eighth Avenue Line and ends north of Jay Street. The Sixth Avenue Line tracks continue south as the IND Culver Line.

Exit

The only exit, located at the station's north end, leads to the Rutgers Street tunnel ventilation tower at the intersection of York Street and Jay Street. It has a turnstile bank and long passageway and staircase to the platform.^[7]

There used to be a mezzanine at the station's south end. It had exits leading to Sands Street. It was closed some time after World War II.

Points of interest

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.
^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
^ "Done at Last". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. May 13, 1885. p. 1.
^ "www.nycsubway.org". www.nycsubway.org.
^ ^a ^b "Two Subway Links Start Wednesday". The New York Times. April 6, 1936. p. 23. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Downtown Brooklyn and Borough Hall" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.

External links

nycsubway.org – IND 6th Avenue: York Street
Station Reporter — F Train
The Subway Nut — York Street Pictures
York Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platform from Google Maps Street View

[SASDEIS-DIVISION-1] "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.

[riderref-2] "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

[3] "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

[Gates-4] "Done at Last". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. May 13, 1885. p. 1.

[nycsubway.org-5] "www.nycsubway.org". www.nycsubway.org.

[Rutgers-6] "Two Subway Links Start Wednesday". The New York Times. April 6, 1936. p. 23. Retrieved October 7, 2011.

[maps-7] "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Downtown Brooklyn and Borough Hall" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.

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v t e Stations of the New York City Subway, by service
Queens Blvd Express/ Sixth Avenue Local	Jamaica–179th Street 169th Street Parsons Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard Briarwood Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike 75th Avenue Forest Hills–71st Avenue Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue 21st Street–Queensbridge Roosevelt Island Lexington Avenue–63rd Street 57th Street 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue 34th Street–Herald Square 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street Second Avenue Delancey Street East Broadway York Street Jay Street–MetroTech Bergen Street Carroll Street Smith–Ninth Streets Fourth Avenue Seventh Avenue 15th Street–Prospect Park Fort Hamilton Parkway Church Avenue Ditmas Avenue 18th Avenue Avenue I Bay Parkway Avenue N Avenue P Kings Highway Avenue U Avenue X Neptune Avenue West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
Queens Blvd Express/ Sixth Avenue Local (Rush Hour Express)	Jamaica–179th Street 169th Street Parsons Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard Briarwood Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike 75th Avenue Forest Hills–71st Avenue Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue 21st Street–Queensbridge Roosevelt Island Lexington Avenue–63rd Street 57th Street 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center 42nd Street–Bryant Park 34th Street–Herald Square 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Broadway–Lafayette Street Second Avenue Delancey Street East Broadway York Street Jay Street–MetroTech Seventh Avenue Church Avenue Ditmas Avenue 18th Avenue Avenue I Bay Parkway Avenue N Avenue P Kings Highway Avenue U Avenue X Neptune Avenue West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
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