Wall Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

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Wall Street
NYCS-bull-trans-2.svg NYCS-bull-trans-3.svg
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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148th Street-bound 3 train leaves the station
Station statistics
Address Wall Street & William Street
New York, NY 10005
Borough Manhattan
Locale Financial District
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Division A (IRT)
Line       IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line
Services       2 all times (all times)
      3 all except late nights (all except late nights)
Structure Underground
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened August 1, 1918; 106 years ago (August 1, 1918)
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 7,845,023[1]Increase 5%
Rank 51 out of 421
Station succession
Next north Fulton Street: 2 all times 3 all except late nights
Next south Clark Street: 2 all times 3 all except late nights

Wall Street is a station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Wall Street and William Street in the Financial District of Manhattan. It is served by the 2 and 3 trains, the latter of which does not stop here during late night hours.

Station layout

G Street Level Exit/ Entrance
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
P
Platform level
Northbound NYCS-bull-trans-2.svg toward Wakefield – 241st Street (Fulton Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-3.svg toward Harlem – 148th Street (Fulton Street)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound NYCS-bull-trans-2.svg toward Brooklyn College – Flatbush Avenue (Clark Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-3.svg toward New Lots Avenue (Clark Street)

This underground station, opened on August 1, 1918, is the southernmost in Manhattan on the Brooklyn Branch of the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. South of here, the line travels under the East River via the Clark Street Tunnel to Brooklyn Heights. The single island platform is between the two tracks, and very narrow compared to other stations in system. It has blue I-beam columns and dark blue floors tiles. The walls by the tracks have small "W" tablets on a mosaic trim except at the north end, where they have "WALL ST" written in black letters on white tablets over a green trim line. This is where the platform was extended in the 1950s.

There is a narrow full length mezzanine above the platform that has mosaics pointing to and connecting all four station entrances.

Entrances and exits

This station has four entrances/exits:

  • The first exit is at the northern end of the station. It has a customer assistance booth with a bank of turnstiles and long passageway to a set of doors, where a short staircase goes up to the front entrance of One Chase Manhattan Plaza. Though signs at this entrance/exit say it leads to Cedar and William Streets, which are right outside the building, it does not go to the actual streets and the building entrance has no signs informing people that there is a subway entrance inside. This entrance is only open on weekdays.
  • The second exit, also open weekdays only, contains a bank of turnstiles and passageway to a spiral staircase that leads to Pine Street outside 60 Wall Street. The passageway has an artwork called Subway Wall by Harry Roseman made in 1990 and installed after a 1993 station renovation. This exit also has a set of doors to two escalators and a double-wide staircase that go up to the public atrium lobby of 60 Wall Street. This entrance has two red globes and overhead signs, giving the impression of an outdoor station entrance built in the lobby.
  • The third exit was the first to open to the station and is staffed full-time. It has a bank of turnstiles and staircases to the northeast and northwest corners of William and Wall Streets. The entrance at the northeast corner is made of ornate medal and has a sign reading "Interborough Rapid Transit Co-to All Trains."
  • The last exit is at the south end of the station. A single double-wide staircase from the platform leads to two HEET turnstiles and two regular turnstiles. Staircases lead to the both southern corners of William and Wall Streets. This exit, though open at all times, is unstaffed as there is no token booth.

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References

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