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 40°42′36.74″N 74°0′27.88″W / 40.7102056°N 74.0077444°W / 40.7102056; -74.0077444Coordinates: 40°42′36.74″N 74°0′27.88″W / 40.7102056°N 74.0077444°W / 40.7102056; -74.0077444
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[1]
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 21,671,684 (station complex)[2] Increase 7.8%
Rank 8 out of 422

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.[3] The complex is served by the:

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 

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.[4] 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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Further reading

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 

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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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)[5]
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

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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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)[6]
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 

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.[7] 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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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

References

  1. ↑ New York Times, Transfer Points Under Higher Fare, June 30, 1948, page 19
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  3. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  4. ↑ Subway at Fulton Street busy New York Times Retrieved January 03, 2010
  5. ↑ New York Times, Mayor Drives Train in New Subway Link, May 30, 1931, page 11
  6. ↑ New York Times, City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, February 1, 1933, page 19
  7. ↑ http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/FultonStreetStation.htm

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