181st Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

181st Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

West 181st Street & Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10033

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Washington Heights, Hudson Heights

Coordinates

40°51′03″N 73°56′18″W / 40.850891°N 73.938289°WCoordinates: 40°51′03″N 73°56′18″W / 40.850891°N 73.938289°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

A (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M4, M98

GWB Bus Station

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Other entrances/
exits

Fort Washington Avenue & 181st St, Overlook Terrace & 184th St, east side of Fort Washington Avenue

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

3,628,174^[2]

Rank

144 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

190th Street: A

Next south

175th Street: A

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

Location
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181st Street Subway Station (IND)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

MPS

New York City Subway System MPS

NRHP Reference #

05000233^[3]

Added to NRHP

March 30, 2005

181st Street is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located on Fort Washington Avenue and 181st Street, one of the main shopping districts of the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights, and served by the A train at all times.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance (Elevator at Bennett Park exit. Note: Platforms are not accessible)
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending machines, tunnel to Overlook Terrace at north end
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Inwood – 207th Street (190th Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Lefferts Boulevard, Far Rockaway, or Rockaway Park (175th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

This underground station, opened on September 10, 1932, has two tracks and two side platforms and is deep below the surface due to the area's hills. In fact, the highest natural point on Manhattan Island is in Bennett Park, adjacent to the station exit on Fort Washington Avenue between West 183rd and 185th Streets (there is no West 184th Street there).

Because of the station's depth, escalators lead to 181st Street at the south end, and elevators at the north end of the station carry passengers to the Bennett Park exit. The elevators can be used by pedestrians going between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Avenue without paying a fare; a similar situation exists at 190th Street, the next station uptown, as well as at 191st Street, on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line.

Exits

Exit at Overlook Terrace and West 184th Street
Exit at Fort Washington Avenue across from Bennett Park, between West 183rd and 185th Streets
Exit at Fort Washington Avenue at 181st Street

In popular culture

The station is mentioned in the title song of the Broadway musical In the Heights, where Usnavi says to take the A train "even farther than Harlem to Northern Manhattan and maintain, get off at 181st and take the escalator. I hope you're writing this down I'm gonna test ya later".
On September 13, 1980, aspiring pianist Eric Kaminsky was robbed and stabbed to death in the station. His murder became the basis for his mother's book The Victim's Song.^[4]

Gallery

Overlook Terrace entrance at West 184th Street
Fort Washington Avenue entrance between West 183rd and 185th Streets

References

Notes

↑ "List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line", The New York Times (September 10, 1932), p.6
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
↑ Kaminsky, Alice. The Victim's Song. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1985. ISBN 0879752920.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 181st Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org—IND 8th Avenue: 181st Street
Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
181st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Overlook Terrace entrance from Google Maps Street View
Fort Washington Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

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