215th Street station
215 Street Bx20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | March 12, 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023 | 459,810[2] 14% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 396 out of 423[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 215th Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 215th Street and Tenth Avenue in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood, it is served by the 1 train at all times. It is the northernmost subway station in the system on Manhattan Island.
Built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the station opened on March 12, 1906, as part of the first subway. The northbound platform was lengthened in 1910 while the southbound platform was lengthened in 1948.
History
The West Side Branch of the
To address overcrowding, in 1909, the New York Public Service Commission proposed lengthening the platforms at stations along the original IRT subway.[8]: 168 As part of a modification to the IRT's construction contracts made on January 18, 1910, the company was to lengthen station platforms to accommodate ten-car express and six-car local trains. In addition to $1.5 million (equivalent to $49.1 million in 2023) spent on platform lengthening, $500,000 (equivalent to $16.4 million in 2023) was spent on building additional entrances and exits. It was anticipated that these improvements would increase capacity by 25 percent.[9]: 15 The northbound platform at the 215th Street station was extended 50 feet (15 m) at both its north and south ends.[9]: 114 The southbound platform was not lengthened.[9]: 106 Six-car local trains began operating in October 1910,[8]: 168 and ten-car express trains began running on the West Side Line on January 24, 1911.[8]: 168 [10] Subsequently, the station could accommodate six-car local trains, but ten-car trains could not open some of their doors.[11]
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.
In 1969, the station's wooden platforms were replaced with concrete ones.[18]
The station was renovated by an in-house crew of New York City Transit Authority employees in 1990.[19]
From January 5 to December 20, 2019, a free out-of-system transfer was provided from this station to
Station layout
Platform level | Side platform | |
Northbound local | ← toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (Marble Hill–225th Street) ← termination track (select AM rush trips) | |
Peak-direction express | No regular service | |
Southbound local | toward South Ferry (207th Street) → | |
Side platform | ||
Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines | |
Ground | Street level | Entrances/exits |
This elevated station has two
The 1991 artwork here is called Elevated Nature I-IV by Wopo Holup. It consists of two concrete panels with wooden frames on the southbound platform's station house. Each panel consists of eight squares depicting tree limbs. This artwork is also located at four other stations on this line.
The station is near the northern end of the
Exits
Both platforms have one wooden adjacent station house in the center. However, only the southbound one is used for passenger service. Three doors from the platform lead to a small waiting area, where a
The station house on the northbound platform is used for employees only. One exit-only turnstile at platform level leads to a staircase that goes down to the northeast corner of 215th Street and Tenth Avenue while a
Ridership
In 2018, the station had 553,050 boardings, making it the 402nd most used station in the 424-station system. This amounted to an average of 1,787 passengers per weekday. In terms of annual passenger ridership and in terms of weekday daily ridership, this is the least used station in Manhattan.[2]
References
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Farthest North in Town by the Interborough" (PDF). The New York Times. January 14, 1907. p. 18.
- ^ Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York. New York State Public Service Commission. 1913.
- ^ "Trains To Ship Canal: But They Whiz by Washington Heights Station" (PDF). The New York Times. March 13, 1906. p. 16. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Interborough Rapid Transit Company (1906). Subway Division - New York City (Map).
- ^ "Express to 221st Street: Will Run In the Subway To-day–New 181st Street Station Ready" (PDF). The New York Times. May 30, 1906. p. 1.
- ^ a b c Hood, Clifton (1978). "The Impact of the IRT in New York City" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record. pp. 146–207 (PDF pp. 147–208). Retrieved December 20, 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ a b c Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York For The Year Ending December 31, 1910. Public Service Commission. 1911.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
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- from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ProQuest 1248134780.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ^ Brown, Nicole (May 17, 2019). "How did the MTA subway lines get their letter or number? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ Friedlander, Alex; Lonto, Arthur; Raudenbush, Henry (April 1960). "A Summary of Services on the IRT Division, NYCTA" (PDF). New York Division Bulletin. 3 (1). Electric Railroaders' Association: 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ Minutes and Proceedings. New York City Transit Authority. 1969. p. 1217.
- ^ Cox, Jeremiah (December 31, 2010). "A plaque for the station opened in 1907 and rehabilitated in 1991". subwaynut.com. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
- ^ "Station Info (168 St)". MTA. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ^ "Washington Heights subway station set to close for elevator repairs". ABC7 New York. January 3, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
- OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "1 Subway Timetable, Effective August 12, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- ^ a b "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Inwood" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- ^ "Inwood Rezoning Proposal Chapter 14: Transportation" (PDF). edc.nyc. 2017. p. 14-47, 14-48. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 27, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
External links
- nycsubway.org – IRT West Side Line: 215th Street
- Station Reporter – 1 Train
- The Subway Nut – 215th Street Pictures Archived July 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- 215th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View