Fulton Street (New York City Subway)

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).

Fulton Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station complex
New Fulton Center Building entrance, opened 2014
Station statistics
Address	Fulton Street between Broadway & Nassau Street New York, NY 10007
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District
Coordinates
Division	A (IRT), B (BMT, IND)
Line	IND Eighth Avenue Line       IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line       IRT Lexington Avenue Line       BMT Nassau Street Line
Services	2  (all times)       3  (all except late nights)       4  (all times)       5  (all except late nights)       A  (all times)       C  (all except late nights)       J  (all times)       Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M5, X1, X3, X4, X17, X19, X27, X28
Structure	Underground
Levels	3 (Eighth Avenue Line platforms bisect the other 3 lines; Nassau Street platforms are on 2 levels)
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1948
Accessible
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	21,671,684 (station complex)  7.8%
Rank	8
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times 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 eighth busiest in the system, as of 2016, with 21,671,684 passengers. 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 stations through the out-of-fare control Dey Street Passageway. The Fulton Center opened on November 10, 2014.

IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms

Fulton Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Uptown platform
Station statistics
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services	4  (all times)       5  (all except late nights)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 16, 1905 (1905-01-16)
Accessible
Station succession
Next north	Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall: 4  5
Next south	Wall Street: 4  5
Next north	Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall: 4  5
Next south	Bowling Green: 4  5
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times

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

History

Opened on January 16, 1905 as part of a one-stop extension southbound from Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall. 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. In November 2014, the northbound platform became accessible through an elevator to the underpass that connected to the southbound platform.

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.

Because the local tracks loop at the abandoned City Hall station to the north, Fulton Street has only two tracks and two side platforms. The station, which is now a registered New York City Landmark, features a mosaic of the steamboat built by Robert Fulton. 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.

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  An R142 in service at Fulton Street, bound for Bowling Green.

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
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line
Services	2  (all times)       3  (all except late nights)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	August 1, 1918 (1918-08-01)
Accessible
Station succession
Next north	Park Place: 2  3
Next south	Wall Street: 2  3
Next north	Chambers Street: 2  3
Next south	Borough Hall: 2  3
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times

Fulton Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line opened on August 1, 1918 as part of an extension towards Brooklyn. It originally opened to a temporary terminus at Wall Street before the Clark Street Tunnel could open.

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.

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.

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.

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  Former entrance in doorway of Royal Building. This stair is currently boarded up.

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  Entrance at William Street and Fulton Street

BMT Nassau Street Line platforms

Fulton Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Broad Street-bound platform
Station statistics
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Nassau Street Line
Services	J  (all times)       Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Levels	2
Platforms	2 side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks	2 (1 on each level)
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1931 (1931-05-30)
Accessible
Station succession
Next north	Chambers Street: J  Z
Next south	Broad Street: J  Z
Next north	Marcy Avenue (via Jamaica): J  Z
Next south	none: J  Z  Jay Street – MetroTech: no regular service
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

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.

Exits are to Nassau Street and Fulton Street. There is a south exit to John Street that is open only during rush hours and 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.

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  A train made of R42 cars at Fulton Street, bound for Broad Street.

IND Eighth Avenue Line platform

Fulton Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
The IND Eighth Avenue Line platform. Note the name sign saying the station's former name, "Broadway – Nassau Street".
Station statistics
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services	A  (all times)       C  (all except late nights)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	February 1, 1933 (1933-02-01)
Accessible
Former/other names	Broadway – Nassau Street
Station succession
Next north	Chambers Street – World Trade Center: A  C
Next south	High Street: A  C
Next north	West Fourth Street – Washington Square (Eighth): A  C
Next south	Jay Street – MetroTech (8th Ave express): A  C
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times

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 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 until recently. The station adopted the "Fulton Street" name in December 2010 to become unified with the other platforms in the station complex. Overhead and column signage carry the new name.

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

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

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  Mezzanine before reconstruction. Note the Marine Grill Murals on the walls

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  Cliff Street Substation supplies power

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1 Upper Mezzanine	Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line Mezzanine	Fare control, station agents, connections between services (Elevators located: on the SW corner of Dey Street and Broadway for southbound trains only; out-of-system connection to trains using Dey Street Passageway to Cortlandt Street. Note: All other platforms accessible by first using IND Eighth Avenue Line platform. on the NE corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets. Note: IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, BMT Broadway Line, and IRT Lexington Avenue Line platform levels are accessible from this elevator by first using the IND Eighth Avenue Line platform. on the SW corner of William and Fulton Streets. Note: BMT Nassau Street Line, BMT Broadway Line, and IRT Lexington Avenue Line platform levels are accessible from this elevator by first using the IND Eighth Avenue Line platform.)
B1 Nassau St Line S/B Platform	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound Nassau Street Line	→ ( AM rush hours) toward Broad Street (Terminus) →
B1 Lex Ave Line Platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound Lexington Avenue Line	← toward Woodlawn (Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall) ← toward Eastchester – Dyre Avenue or Nereid Avenue (Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall)
	Southbound Lexington Avenue Line	→ toward Crown Heights – Utica Avenue (toward New Lots Avenue late nights) (Wall Street) → → toward Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College weekdays, Bowling Green weekends (Wall Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2 Broadway–7th Ave Line Platforms	Northbound Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line	← toward Wakefield – 241st Street (Park Place) ← toward Harlem – 148th Street (Park Place)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line	→ toward Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College (Wall Street) → → toward New Lots Avenue (Wall Street) →
B2 Lower Mezzanine	East IND Mezzanine	Transfers to other services
	Separating wall
	Northbound Nassau Street Line	← ( PM rush hours) toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Chambers Street)
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	West IND Mezzanine	Dey Street Passageway, transfers to other services
B3	Northbound Eighth Avenue Line	← toward Inwood – 207th Street (Chambers Street) ← toward 168th Street (Chambers Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound Eighth Avenue Line	→ toward Lefferts Boulevard, Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue or Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street (High Street) → → toward Euclid Avenue (High Street) →

Notable places nearby

• St. Paul's Chapel
• World Trade Center site
• World Trade Center complex

External links

nycsubway.org:

• nycsubway.org—IRT East Side Line: Fulton Street
• nycsubway.org—IRT West Side Line: Fulton Street
• nycsubway.org—BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line: Fulton Street
• nycsubway.org—IND 8th Avenue: Broadway/Nassau Street
• nycsubway.org — Marine Grill Murals, 1913 Artwork by Fred Dana Marsh (2000)
• nycsubway.org — Astral Grating Artwork by Nancy Holt (1987)

Station Reporter:

• Station Reporter — Broadway Nassau/Fulton Street Complex

MTA's Arts For Transit:

• MTA's Arts For Transit — Fulton Street/William Street

Google Street View:

• Broadway & Dey Street entrance (Dey Street Headhouse) from Google Maps Street View
• Broadway & Fulton Street entrance (street) from Google Maps Street View
• Broadway & Fulton Street entrance (Fulton Center building) from Google Maps Street View
• Broadway & John Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Broadway, Maiden Lane, and Cortlandt Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Nassau Street & Fulton Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Nassau Street & John Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• William Street & Fulton Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Lexington Avenue Line platforms from Google Maps Street View