Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line)

Coordinates: 40°42′25″N 74°00′39″W / 40.70694°N 74.01083°W / 40.70694; -74.01083
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 Broad Street
StructureUnderground
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedMay 29, 1931; 92 years ago (1931-05-29)[2]
Accessiblenot ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
20231,214,353[3] Increase 17.6%
Rank250 out of 423[3]
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
Z rush hours, peak direction
toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer
 Terminus
Location
Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line) is located in New York City Subway
Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line)
Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line) is located in New York City
Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line)
Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line) is located in New York
Broad Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line)
Track layout

Legend
to Fulton Street
to
Whitehall St–South Ferry
to Court Street
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

The Broad Street station is a

Z
trains during rush hours in the peak direction.

The station was built as part of the Dual Contracts, signed between the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (later reorganized as the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT) and the city in 1913. The Nassau Street Line was one of the last lines to be completed under the Dual Contracts, and construction did not proceed until James Walker was elected as mayor of New York City in 1926. This station opened on May 29, 1931, as part of the final portion of the Nassau Street Line. Despite being under Broad and Nassau Streets, with Wall Street as the cross-street, this station was named after Broad Street to prevent confusion with other stations. Between 1990 and 2015, Broad Street was only open on weekdays and weekday nights.

History

Planning and construction

On March 19, 1913, the

John Hylan refused to act during his final two years in office.[5] BOT chairman John H. Delaney believed that the line was unnecessary because both of its planned stations would be extremely close to existing subway stations.[9] Meanwhile, the BMT claimed that the city's failure to complete the line was overburdening other BMT lines.[10] By January 1925, the BMT was asking its passengers to pressure Hylan into approving the remainder of the Nassau Street Line.[11] Work did not commence until after James Walker succeeded Hylan as mayor at the end of 1925.[5]

The city government agreed to build the Nassau Street Line in May 1927,

cut-and-cover method, despite merchants' requests that the line be constructed using tunneling shields.[18]

The line was constructed 20 feet (6.1 m) below the active IRT Lexington Avenue Line, next to buildings along the narrow Nassau Street, and the project encountered difficulties such as quicksand.[5][19] When the construction contracts were awarded, work had been projected to be completed in 39 months.[5] Nassau Street is only 34 feet (10 m) wide, and the subway floor was only 20 feet (6.1 m) below building foundations. As a result, 89 buildings had to be underpinned to ensure that they would stay on their foundations. Construction had to be done 20 feet below the active IRT Lexington Avenue Line. An area filled with quicksand with water, which used to belong to a spring, was found between John Street and Broad Street.[5] Additionally, the station underpinned the former Sub-Treasury building (now Federal Hall) at the northeast corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street; the city had to receive permission from the United States Congress to dig under the building, and it constructed a new foundation for that edifice.[20] Construction was done at night so as to not disturb workers in the Financial District.[5][21]

By early 1929, sixty percent of the work had been finished.[5][22] The project was 80 percent complete by April 1930.[23][21] Later that year, a federal judge ruled that the city government did not have to pay the BMT $30 million in damages for failing to construct the Nassau Street Line.[24] The total construction cost was $10.072 million[19][25] for 0.9 miles (1.4 km) of new tunnels, or $2,068 per foot ($6,780/m), which was three times the normal cost of construction at the time.[5]

Operation

Grecian revival tablet and frieze circa 1996 from original Vickers design

The station opened on May 29, 1931, completing what was known as the "

DeKalb Avenue. Service on the Jamaica Line was extended to operate to this station.[31][32]

The station is under Broad and

William Street.[20][33] When the station opened, it had 14 exits to nearby buildings.[20][21] Banking firm J.P. Morgan & Co., which occupied a structure at 23 Wall Street (on the southwest corner with Broad and Nassau Streets), paid for the installation of bronze rails and stanchions on the subway entrance just outside its building. Other entrances were built to the basements of the Equitable Building and the Bankers Trust Company Building. In addition, there were street entrances outside the New York Stock Exchange Building; to the intersection of Broad Street and Exchange Place; and to the northwest corners of Nassau and Cedar Streets.[20]

In April 1993, the

full-time service (the remaining two being the platforms for the 42nd Street Shuttle).[38]

Proposed elevators

A proposed skyscraper at 45 Broad Street will provisionally include an entrance to the station that contains elevators, making the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.[39] The plans call for two elevators, one for each platform, at the northeastern and southwestern corners of Broad Street and Exchange Place.[40] The New York City Council approved the construction of the elevators in July 2018, and granted the developers an additional 71,391 square feet (6,632.4 m2) in zoning rights in exchange for building the elevators.[41]

Residents and tenants of 15 and 30 Broad Street opposed construction of glass-and-metal elevators, saying they posed a risk for terrorist attacks; the buildings' occupants hired a security consultant who determined they were a terrorist risk.[42] However, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority hired its own security consultant who found they would not make the area more prone to terrorist attacks. Regular riders at the Broad Street station also advocated for the elevators because only six of the 30 stations served by the J and Z trains were wheelchair-accessible as of 2020.[42]

Station layout

Ground Street Level Entrance/exit
Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, out-of-system passageway to
Wall Street
Platform level Side platform
Northbound ← "J" train toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Fulton Street)
← "Z" train PM rush toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Fulton Street)
Southbound → "J" train"Z" train termination track →
→ (No service: Court Street)
Side platform
A consist of R42 cars in J service at Broad Street

This station has two tracks and two

bumper blocks used for laying-up and relaying trains.[20][43] Trains terminate on the southbound track and continue to the center stub tracks, where they reverse direction. There is also a single switch north of the station to enable trains on the southbound track to return to the northbound track.[43]

Further south, the two tracks of the BMT Nassau Street Line merge with the BMT Broadway Line via a flying junction as it enters the Montague Street Tunnel into Downtown Brooklyn.[43] After the line merges with the Montague Street Tunnel, the next station to the south is Court Street.[43] No regular service has used this connection since the M train was rerouted in June 2010.[46][47]

The station originally had red tile bands, similar to those used on the Independent Subway System.[48][49] This station was renovated in the late 1990s and a mosaic design was added to the platform walls. Beneath a small green and gold trim-line is a larger gold trim-line with a maroon border and white "B" and "BROAD ST" tablets on a blue-green background at regular intervals.[50]

Exits

Entrance next to 23 Wall Street, following the restoration of full-time service to the station

This station has three entrance and exit areas, with eight total stairways. The full-time entrance/exit is at the north end above the platforms. Two staircases from each side go up to a

fare control, two street stairs go up to the southeastern corner of Wall and Broad Streets (outside 23 Wall Street).[51] Two more street stairs go up to the southwestern corner of the same intersection and lie outside of the New York Stock Exchange Building (NYSE). After the September 11 attacks in 2001, the stair facing away from Wall Street was closed off by the New York City Police Department, which had instituted a security zone around the NYSE.[5][50] In 2012, the stair facing towards Wall Street was closed when the security zone was reorganized.[52] In 2017, the two exits were proposed to be sealed as part of general improvements in that area, but no action was taken.[53] In 2019, the MTA again proposed permanently closing and removing the stairways to allow the NYSE to improve the streetscape just outside the building.[52]

The other two fare entrances/exits are unstaffed and at platform level. The northbound platform has a part-time bank of both regular and

30 Broad Street.[51] A third on the southwestern corner of Exchange Place and Broad Street was closed and sealed. There is another exit-only staircase at the station leading to the northwestern corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place. It was previously closed by the New York City Police Department as well, but was reopened when security zone was reorganized.[50]

Outside of fare control, the station's main entrance/exit has a long passage that is only open weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It runs north three blocks to the basement of

Canal Street).[57]

Lower Manhattan transit
Legend
"1" train Franklin Street
Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall "4" train​"5" train (arrow for u "6" train)
"1" train​"2" train​"3" train Chambers Street
Chambers Street "J" train​"Z" train
"A" train​"C" train (arrow for u "E" train) Chambers Street–WTC
City Hall "R" train​"W" train
"2" train​"3" train Park Place
"1" train WTC Cortlandt
Cortlandt Street "R" train​"W" train
(arrow for l  
NWK ) World Trade Center
Fulton Street "2" train​"3" train​"4" train​"5" train​"A" train​"C" train​"J" train​"Z" train
"1" train Rector Street
Rector Street "R" train​"W" train
"4" train​"5" train Wall Street
Wall Street "2" train​"3" train
"4" train​"5" train Bowling Green
Broad Street (arrow for u "J" train​"Z" train)
"R" train (arrow for u "1" train "W" train) South Ferry/Whitehall Street
Whitehall Terminal
South Ferry loops

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