163rd Street – Amsterdam Avenue (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

163rd Street – Amsterdam Avenue

New York City Subway rapid transit station

View south from northbound platform

Station statistics

Address

Amsterdam Avenue & St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Washington Heights

Coordinates

40°50′13″N 73°56′24″W / 40.836866°N 73.940134°WCoordinates: 40°50′13″N 73°56′24″W / 40.836866°N 73.940134°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

A (late nights)
C (all except late nights)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M3, M100, M101

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

4 (2 on each level)

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

1,395,260^[2]

0.3%

Rank

317 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

168th Street: A C

Next south

155th Street: A C

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only

Location
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163rd Street – Amsterdam Avenue is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located in Washington Heights, Manhattan at the intersection of Amsterdam and Saint Nicholas Avenues. It is served by the C train at all times except nights, when the A train takes over service.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
B2	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (168th Street)
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (155th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B3^[3]	Northbound express	← does not stop here
B3^[3]	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →

The 162nd Street entrance to the station

This underground station, opened on September 10, 1932, has two local tracks and two side platforms. Two express tracks, used by the A train during daytime hours, run below the station and are not visible from the platforms. To the north, the upper level local tracks become the center tracks of 168th Street, allowing C trains to terminate there, while the lower level express tracks become the outer tracks, continuing towards 207th Street.

Both platforms have name tablets reading "163RD STREET - AMSTERDAM AV" in white sans serif font on two lines. The background is yellow with a black border. Small black "163" and directional signs in white lettering run at regular intervals, but there is no trim line on either platform. Yellow i-beam columns run along both platforms with all of them having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.

This station has a full length mezzanine supported by yellow i-beam columns above the platforms, but only southern half is opened. The closed-off northern half has an exit-only turnstile leading to the fare control area at the center, three staircases from each platform, and sealed exits leading to 163rd Street.^[4]

The opened southern half of the mezzanine is split into three sections by two black steel fences. Free transfers between directions are not possible. The two outer portions have two staircases from their respective platforms and a turnstile bank leading to the center of the mezzanine. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and the extreme south end has two staircases going up to the streets, one to the northwest corner of 161st Street and Amsterdam Avenue and the other to the western corner of Amsterdam and Saint Nicholas Avenue across from 162nd Street. The latter staircase is built inside 1033 Saint Nicholas Avenue, which is currently a Rite Aid pharmacy.

References

↑ New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ Station Reporter — C Train
↑ "Review of the A and C Lines" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York). December 11, 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 163rd Street – Amsterdam Avenue (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org—163rd Street/Amsterdam Avenue: IND 8th Avenue
Station Reporter — C Train
The Subway Nut — 163rd Street – Amsterdam Avenue Pictures
161st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
162nd Street / Amsterdam Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

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