Dyckman Street station (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
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Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 (2 in passenger service) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | September 10, 1932[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former/other names | Dyckman Street–200th Street | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other entrances/ exits | Broadway, Riverside Drive, and Dyckman Street | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023 | 1,306,098[3] 7.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 240 out of 423[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dyckman Street station (pronounced
train at all times.History
New York City mayor John Francis Hylan's original plans for the Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in 1922, included building over 100 miles (160 km) of new lines and taking over nearly 100 miles (160 km) of existing lines. The lines were designed to compete with the existing underground, surface, and elevated lines operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and BMT.[4][5] On December 9, 1924, the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) gave preliminary approval for the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line.[6] This line consisted of a corridor connecting Inwood, Manhattan, to Downtown Brooklyn, running largely under Eighth Avenue but also paralleling Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Lower Manhattan.[6][7] The BOT announced a list of stations on the new line in February 1928, with a station at Thayer Street (one block southwest of Dyckman Street).[8]
The finishes at the five stations between
Dyckman Street was formerly named Dyckman Street–200th Street despite Manhattan never having a street numbered 200th.[16]
The station was planned to be rehabilitated as part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program.[17]
Station layout
G | Street level | Exit/entrance |
B1 Platform level |
Side platform | |
Northbound | ← toward Inwood–207th Street (Terminus) ← termination track (select rush hour trips) | |
Yard lead | No regular service | |
Yard lead | No regular service | |
Southbound | toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue, Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard or Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street (190th Street) → | |
Side platform | ||
B2 | Crossunder | Connection between platforms |
There are four tracks and two
Both platform walls have no trim line, but there are mosaic name tablets reading "DYCKMAN–200TH ST." in white sans-serif lettering on a maroon background and black border. Small "200" tile captions in white numbering on a black background run along the walls between the name tablets. Yellow I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering, reading "Dyckman Street".[20] A few column signs still read "200".[21] There is an underpass connecting the platforms.[22][23]
Exits
Each platform has one same-level
Since
Nearby points of interest
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.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ^ from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-82325-369-2.
- ProQuest 1113431477.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
- ProQuest 1331181357.
- from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
- ProQuest 1125436641.
- ^ a b Crowell, Paul (September 10, 1932). "Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ProQuest 1114839882.
- Forgotten New York. February 10, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
Presently, Manhattan numbered streets skip from West 196th to West 201st, and both of those streets go for one block or less. Manhattan has never had a 200th Street.
- ^ Review of the A and C Lines (PDF) (Report). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 11, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "A Subway Timetable, Effective June 26, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ Cox, Jeremiah (March 7, 2013). "A name tablet". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ Barnes, John (June 15, 2009). "(One of?) the last 200 St. signs at Dyckman Street (Line A)- most have been removed". nycsubway.org. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ Cox, Jeremiah (August 15, 2008). "The underpass that has seen better days". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ Cox, Jeremiah (March 7, 2013). "The underpass and High Exit turnstiles from the uptown platform". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Inwood" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- ^ Cox, Jeremiah (December 21, 2005). "The Exit Only No Entry Staircase also has a chain and closed sign during the transit strike to try and prevent passengers from going down". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ Cox, Jeremiah (August 15, 2008). "The two exit only streetstairs (with red square Ms and normal globes) from the uptown platform". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
External links
- nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: Dyckman Street/200th Street
- Station Reporter — A Rockaway
- Station Reporter — A Lefferts
- The Subway Nut — Dyckman Street (A)
- Storefront entrance to Dyckman Street from Google Maps Street View
- Broadway and Riverside Drive entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platform from Google Maps Street View