34th Street – Penn Station (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

34th Street – Penn Station
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Northbound local platform
Station statistics
Address West 34th Street & Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Borough Manhattan
Locale Chelsea
Coordinates 40°45′04″N 73°59′28″W / 40.751°N 73.991°W / 40.751; -73.991Coordinates: 40°45′04″N 73°59′28″W / 40.751°N 73.991°W / 40.751; -73.991
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: M4, M7, M20, M34 SBS, M34A SBS, Q32, X17J, X22, X22A, X31
MTA Bus: BxM2
Academy Bus: X23, X24
Railway transportation Amtrak, LIRR, NJT Rail (at Penn Station)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms (local)
1 island platform (express)
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened June 3, 1917 (1917-06-03)[1]
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 28,309,160[2]Decrease 1.2%
Rank 5 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Times Square – 42nd Street: 1  2  3 
Next south 28th Street (local): 1  2 
14th Street (express): 2  3 


Next north Times Square – 42nd Street: 1  2  3 
Next south Chambers Street: 1  2  3 

34th Street – Penn Station is an express station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 34th Street and Seventh Avenue, it is served by the 1 and 2 trains at all times, and the 3 train at all times except late nights. Connections are available to the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak at Pennsylvania Station, and to PATH at its 33rd Street station.

History

Name on trim line

34th Street – Penn Station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line was opened on June 3, 1917 as part of an extension of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the dominant subway in Manhattan at the time, from Times Square – 42nd Street to South Ferry.[1] It was served by a shuttle train to Times Square until the rest of the extension opened a year later on July 1, 1918.[3] This meant that the subway would be expanded down the Lower West Side to neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village and the western portion of Lower Manhattan.

As part of this and the northern IRT Lexington Avenue Line extension, the IRT network would be radically changed from an S-shaped line connecting the eastern side of Lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side to an H-shaped network with two parallel lines, the East and West Side Lines, and a shuttle at 42nd Street connecting them.[3][4]

Station layout

G Street Level Entrances/Exits
(Elevator on south side of 34th Street west of Seventh Avenue at LIRR entrance)
P
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound local toward Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( toward Wakefield – 241st Street late nights) (Times Square – 42nd Street)
Northbound express toward Wakefield – 241st Street (Times Square – 42nd Street)
toward Harlem – 148th Street (Times Square – 42nd Street)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound express toward Flatbush Avenue (14th Street)
toward New Lots Avenue (14th Street)
Southbound local toward South Ferry ( toward Flatbush Avenue late nights) (28th Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the right
M Mezzanine Connector between platforms
Trim line tablets

Like 34th Street – Penn Station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line and Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, this station has two side platforms for local service and a center island platform for express service. This is due to the expected increase in ridership and to encourage riders to switch at the next stop northbound, Times Square – 42nd Street, as it is set up in the usual island platform manner for cross-platform interchanges.[5]

There is no free transfer between this station and the station of the same name on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, despite the fact that both connect to Penn Station. The nearest transfer location is at Times Square – 42nd Street with a free transfer to 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal.[5]

Entrances and exits

33rd Street Staircase

34th Street – Penn Station spans three streets—32nd, 33rd, and 34th Streets—with a set of entrances/exits at all of these streets. For the purposes of this article, entrance and exit are interchangeable.[6]

Ridership

34th Street – Penn Station on the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line is continually ranked as one of the busiest stations in the subway system. In 2013, it was the fifth-busiest subway station, with 27,730,331 riders as recorded by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[2] By comparison, its sister station on the Eighth Avenue Line is ranked sixth-busiest, with 26,758,623 passengers.[2] When the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line station was a shuttle stop before the rest of the South Ferry extension opened, ridership was quite low; in its first year of operation, only 78,121 boardings were recorded.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 New York Times, Three New Links of the Dual Subway System Opened, June 3, 1917, page 33
  2. 1 2 3 "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  3. 1 2 Open new subway to regular traffic New York Times Retrieved 2008-08-27
  4. Open new subway lines to traffic; called a triumph New York Times Retrieved 2008-08-27
  5. 1 2 34th Street-Penn Station NYCSubway Retrieved 2008-08-27
  6. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Pennsylvania Station / Times Square" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York). 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  7. 1904-2006 ridership figures Metropolitan Transportation Authority Retrieved 2008-08-28

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