Wall Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

Wall Street   QM25 Staten Island Ferry at Whitehall Terminal
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1918; 105 years ago (July 1, 1918)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	3,729,954[2]  21.7%
Rank	76 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Fulton Street 2  ​3  via 135th Street Franklin Avenue–Medgar Evers College
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Fulton Street to Clark Street
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekdays and weekday late nights

The Wall Street station is a station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Wall Street and William Street in the Financial District of Manhattan. It is served by the 2 train at all times and the 3 train at all times except late nights.

History

Construction and opening

After the original IRT opened, the city began planning new lines. In April 1912, the

The Public Service Commission began soliciting bids for the William Street portion of the line in September 1914.[19]^[20] Smith, Hauser, & McIsaac submitted a low bid of $2.254 million.^[20] The awarding of the contract was delayed by a dispute over whether gas mains should be carried on temporary overpasses above the tunnel's excavation site.^[21][22] Prior to the start of construction, the city government agreed to pay for any damage caused by the project.^[23] The contractors underpinned every building along the tunnel because most of the buildings had shallow foundations that extended only to a shallow layer of quicksand, rather than to the bedrock below.^[14][15]

The line was nearly completed by late 1917, but the signals and station finishes were incomplete due to World War I–related material shortages.

The IRT had installed silencing devices on the station's turnstiles by early 1931.[33]^[34] The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.^[35][36] During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Wall Street, along with those at four other stations on the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, were lengthened to 525 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 51-foot IRT cars.^[37]

In the 1980s, as part of the construction of the nearby 60 Wall Street, an entrance to the Wall Street station was constructed in that building's lobby.^[38] In 1995, as a result of service reductions, the MTA was considering permanently closing one of the two Wall Street stations, as well as two other stations citywide, due to their proximity to each other. Either the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station or the IRT Lexington Avenue Line station would have been closed.^[39]

Station layout

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent
Platform level	Northbound	← toward Wakefield–241st Street (Fulton Street) ← toward Harlem–148th Street (Fulton Street)
	Island platform
	Southbound	→ toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College (Clark Street) → → toward New Lots Avenue (Clark Street) →

The Wall Street station is under the intersection of Wall and William Streets.The

The second exit, also open weekdays only, contains a bank of turnstiles and passageway to a spiral staircase that leads to Pine Street outside 60 Wall Street. The passageway has an artwork called Subway Wall by Harry Roseman made in 1990 and installed after a 1993 station renovation. This exit also has a set of doors to two escalators and a double-wide staircase that go up to the public atrium lobby of 60 Wall Street. This entrance has two red globes and overhead signs, giving the impression of an outdoor station entrance built in the lobby.^[45]

The third exit was the original entrance to the station and is staffed full-time. It has a bank of turnstiles and staircases to both northern corners of William and Wall Streets.^[45] The entrance at the northeast corner, outside 48 Wall Street, is made of ornate metal and has a sign reading "Interborough Rapid Transit Co-to All Trains."

The last exit is at the south end of the station, which leads to the same intersection as the third exit but is in a separate fare control area. A single double-wide staircase from the platform leads to two

A fifth exit, which led to the southwestern corner of Pine Street and William Street,[46]^[47] was closed after April 1992.^[48] An exit to the northeast corner of the same intersection was removed and slabbed over in 1948.^[49] The northeast-corner exit had been closed by 1944.^[50][51] Exits also existed to the northwest and southeast corners of the same intersection until some point after 1944.^{[citation needed]}

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Image gallery

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  Entrance/Exit from Wall Street
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  Old IRT sign at an entrance
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  The platform viewed from the extremely narrow north end
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  Mezzanine above the platforms
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  Entrance from 28 Liberty Street
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  Part-time entrance from the lobby of 60 Wall Street

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wall Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line).

• nycsubway.org – IRT West Side Line: Wall Street
• nycsubway.org – Subway Wall Artwork by Harry Roseman (1990)
• MTA's Arts For Transit – Wall Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)