Chambers Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

Chambers Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
300px Uptown platform
Station statistics
Address	Chambers Street & West Broadway New York, NY 10013
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District, Tribeca
Coordinates
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1  (all times)       2  (all times)       3  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M20, M22
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1918 (1918-07-01)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	7,054,771  1.2%
Rank	62
Station succession
Next north	Franklin Street (local): 1  2  14th Street (express): 2  3
Next south	Rector Street (local): 1  Park Place (express): 2  3  Cortlandt Street (local, closed)
Next north	34th Street – Penn Station: 1  2  3
Next south	South Ferry: no regular service none; elevator at South Ferry out of service: 1  Fulton Street: 2  3
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only
Location
Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference #	05000234
Added to NRHP	March 30, 2005

Chambers Street is an express station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Chambers Street and West Broadway in Lower Manhattan. It is served by the 1 and 2 trains at all times, and the 3 train at all times except during nights.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent (Elevator at NW corner of Hudson and Chambers Streets)
P Platform level	Northbound local	← toward Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street (Franklin Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Northbound express	← toward Wakefield – 241st Street (14th Street all except nights; Franklin Street late nights) ← toward Harlem – 148th Street (14th Street)
	Southbound express	→ toward Brooklyn College (Park Place) → → toward New Lots Avenue (Park Place) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Southbound local	→ toward South Ferry (Rector Street) → → (under construction) toward South Ferry (Cortlandt Street) →

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Exit at Chambers Street and West Broadway

There are four tracks and two island platforms. The 1 train uses the local tracks, and the 2 and 3 trains use the express tracks. South of this station, the 2 and 3 trains curve east and branch off to Park Place, Fulton Street, Wall Street, and then Brooklyn. The 1 train continues directly south towards its terminal, South Ferry.

North of the station are diamond crossovers in both directions, allowing the 2 train to run local during late nights, switching over to the express tracks north of Chambers Street and then heading to Brooklyn; there are no crossovers south of the station due to its close proximity to Park Place. These switches were also used after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when the South Ferry branch of the line was impassable, and the 1 train was routed to Brooklyn in place of the 3 train and all trains that stopped here were local in Manhattan.

As part of a 2007–2009 renovation, elevators were installed in the station (two from platform level to the mezzanine and one from fare control to the streets) to make it ADA-accessible for people with disabilities.

Nearby points of interest

• World Financial Center
• World Trade Center site
• Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Stuyvesant High School
• New York Law School

Further reading

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

External links

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Plaque with the first building of Kings College (later Columbia University), which was located around the corner on Park Place

• nycsubway.org—IRT West Side Line: Chambers Street
• Station Reporter—1 Train
• Station Reporter—2 Train
• Station Reporter—3 Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit—Chambers Street/Park Place (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
• Chambers Street entrance from Google Maps Street View