West Fourth Street–Washington Square station

Coordinates: 40°43′54″N 74°00′03″W / 40.731682°N 74.000945°W / 40.731682; -74.000945
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 West 4 Street–
 Washington Square
 
JSQ–33 (via HOB) (at Ninth Street)
StructureUnderground
Levels2
Platforms4 island platforms (2 on each level)
cross-platform interchange
Tracks8 (4 on each level)
Other information
OpenedSeptember 10, 1932; 91 years ago (1932-09-10)[2] (upper level)
December 15, 1940; 83 years ago (1940-12-15) (lower level)
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
20228,145,412[4] Increase 30.6%
Rank20 out of 423[4]
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
14th Street
A all times ​C all except late nights ​E all times
northbound
Express 		Canal Street
A all except late nights
toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue or Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard

Local 		Spring Street
A late nights ​C all except late nights ​E all times
via Canal Street
34th Street–Herald Square
B weekdays during the day ​D all times
via 59th Street–Columbus Circle
Express
<F> two rush hour trains, peak direction ​M weekdays during the day
southbound
<F> two rush hour trains, peak direction ​M weekdays during the day
via 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center
Local
Location
West Fourth Street–Washington Square station is located in New York City Subway
West Fourth Street–Washington Square station
West Fourth Street–Washington Square station is located in New York City
West Fourth Street–Washington Square station
West Fourth Street–Washington Square station is located in New York
West Fourth Street–Washington Square station
Track layout

Legend
Upper level (Eighth Avenue Line)
to 14th Street
6th Av local to lower level
6th Av local to lower level
to Spring Street
to Canal Street
Lower level (Sixth Avenue Line)
to 34th Street–Herald Square
to 14th Street
6th Av local to upper level
6th Av local to upper level
from Broadway–Lafayette Street
to Broadway–Lafayette Street
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only
Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekdays during the day
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only (limited service) Stops rush hours in the peak direction only (limited service)
West 4th Street Subway Station (IND)
MPS
New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.05000223[5]
Added to NRHPMarch 30, 2005

The West Fourth Street–Washington Square station is an express

<F>
train during rush hours in the peak direction.

The West Fourth Street station was built as an express station for the Independent Subway System (IND)'s Sixth Avenue and Eighth Avenue Lines. It has four island platforms and eight tracks, split evenly across two levels, which are connected by a mezzanine. The Eighth Avenue Line platforms on the upper level opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the IND's first segment, while the Sixth Avenue Line platforms on the lower level opened on December 15, 1940. The West Fourth Street station contains elevators, which make it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Construction and opening

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, which would compete with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the two major subway operators of the time.[6][7] On December 9, 1924, the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) gave preliminary approval for the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line.[8] 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.[8][9] The BOT announced a list of stations on the new line in February 1928, with an express station at Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue.[10]

An additional line, the IND Sixth Avenue Line, was approved in 1925, running from

IND Second System in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[13] Real estate developers expected that the construction of the West Fourth Street station would spur development around Sixth Avenue in Lower Manhattan.[14]

Eighth Avenue Line

Work on the IND Eighth Avenue Line began in 1925.

Chambers Street–Hudson Terminal and West Fourth Street, which were only 21 percent completed.[19] The entire line was completed by September 1931, except for the installation of turnstiles.[20]

A preview event for the new subway was hosted on September 8, 1932, two days before the official opening.

CC trains to the Concourse Line.[26] The E began using the local tracks on August 19, 1933, when the IND Queens Boulevard Line opened.[27]

Sixth Avenue Line

The first portion of the Sixth Avenue Line to be constructed was the Houston–Essex Street Line south of the West Fourth Street station. The contract for the line was awarded to Corson Construction in January 1929,

Church Avenue.[31]

The Midtown section of the Sixth Avenue Line was much more difficult to construct because part of this stretch of Sixth Avenue was already occupied by the

Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (H&M)'s Uptown Hudson Tubes, which ran between Eighth and 33rd Streets.[32] As a result, negotiations between the city and the H&M continued for several years.[33] The IND and H&M finally came to an agreement in 1930. The city had decided to build the IND Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks around the pre-existing H&M tubes, and add express tracks for the IND underneath the H&M tubes at a later date.[34]

The Midtown section of the Sixth Avenue Line did not begin construction until March 1936.[35][36] The line was to connect with the lower level of the West Fourth Street station, which had already been constructed.[37] The line's Midtown section opened on December 15, 1940.[38][39] The F train, which made local stops along the Sixth Avenue Line, replaced the E train along the Houston–Essex Street Line and started serving the lower level of the West Fourth Street station.[40]

Modifications

The Sixth Avenue Line's Midtown section, comprising the section between the West Fourth Street and

Broadway–Lafayette Street station one stop south to the Manhattan Bridge.[43] On July 1, 1968, another section of the Chrystie Street Connection opened, allowing Sixth and Eighth Avenue local trains to use the Williamsburg Bridge.[44] The Williamsburg Bridge connection has been used by the M train since 2010.[45] The Sixth Avenue Line station was also served by the JFK Express from 1978[46] to 1990 when it was discontinued.[47]

As early as 1965, Manhattan borough president Earl Brown requested that mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. add funding for an escalator at the West Fourth Street station to the city's capital budget.[48] Two up-only escalators were installed in the station in 1970, connecting the Sixth Avenue Line platforms to the Eighth Avenue Line platforms; one escalator was installed on the northbound side, while the other was installed on the southbound side. As part of a $4.3 million project, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) closed the escalators for renovations in 1998.[49]

In 2002, the MTA announced that elevators would be installed at the West Fourth Street station.[50] The elevator installation was delayed by over a year and was finally completed in April 2005, but the elevators then suffered from frequent breakdowns.[51] In 2005 alone, the three elevators were out of service for a cumulative nine months,[52] and one elevator was closed off for 134 days.[53] That year, passengers made 57 complaints about the elevators, including seven instances in which riders were trapped in the elevators.[54] Consequently, disability-rights groups sued the MTA over the elevators.[55]

The upper level (at left) serves Eighth Avenue Line trains, while the lower level (at right) serves Sixth Avenue Line trains.

Station layout

Ground Street level Exit/entrance
Basement 1 Mezzanine Fare control, station agents
Disabled access Elevator at northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 3rd Street
Basement 2 Northbound local ← "C" train toward 168th Street (14th Street)
← "E" train toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (14th Street)
← "A" train toward Inwood–207th Street late nights (14th Street)
Island platform Disabled access
Northbound express ← "A" train toward Inwood–207th Street (14th Street)
Southbound express → "A" train toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue, Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
or Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street (Canal Street) →
Island platform Disabled access
Southbound local → "C" train toward Euclid Avenue (Spring Street) →
→ "E" train toward World Trade Center (Spring Street) →
→ "A" train toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights (Spring Street) →
Basement 3 Mezzanine Connection between platform levels
Basement 4 Northbound local ← "F" train"F" express train toward Jamaica–179th Street (14th Street)
← "M" train weekdays toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (14th Street)
Island platform Disabled access
Northbound express ← "B" train weekdays toward Bedford Park Boulevard or 145th Street (34th Street–Herald Square)
← "D" train toward Norwood–205th Street (34th Street–Herald Square)
Southbound express → "B" train weekdays toward Brighton Beach (Broadway–Lafayette Street) →
→ "D" train toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via West End (Broadway–Lafayette Street) →
Island platform Disabled access
Southbound local → "F" train"F" express train toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Culver (Broadway–Lafayette Street) →
→ "M" train weekdays toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue (Broadway–Lafayette Street) →
Tile caption below trim line

The West Fourth Street station was built by the Independent Subway System as the major transfer point between its two Manhattan trunk lines. It is the location of the zero point on the IND chaining. It is a bi-level station with a connecting concourse between the two platform levels. The Eighth Avenue Line occupies the upper level, while the Sixth Avenue Line uses the lower level. Both levels use identical platform arrangements–two island platforms between four tracks, allowing for cross-platform interchanges between local and express trains in each direction.

The Eighth Avenue Line's express tracks are used by the

Broadway–Lafayette Street for all Sixth Avenue trains, Spring Street for Eighth Avenue local trains, and Canal Street for Eighth Avenue express trains.[63]

There are three

mezzanine.[64]

The walls of the station contain green-tile bands with green borders; since West 4th Street is an express station, it has a wider tile band than local stations.

34th Street–Herald Square on Sixth Avenue, used a different tile color.[66][67] When the station was under construction, New York University (NYU) officials had requested that the station contain purple tile bands because that was NYU's official color. However, this was not done because it would not have fit with the color-coded tile system used on the rest of the IND.[16]
Small tile captions reading "WEST 4" run below the trim lines at regular intervals. Hunter green I-beam columns run along all the platforms, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate; The signs read "West 4 Street", replacing the older signs which simply read "W4".

Exits

Street stair

The station does not have an exit to Fourth Street itself anymore, though an exit formerly existed there.[68] The northern exits are on the northern side of 6th Avenue and Waverly Place. Two staircases go up to the northeast corner, both built into alcoves of stores, and one to the northwest corner. The southern exits are at West Third Street, on the east and west sides of 6th Avenue.[69]

  • Two to the northwest corner (within building), one to the northeast corner (within building) of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place[69]
  • One to the east side of Sixth Avenue north of Waverly Place[69]
  • Disabled access One elevator and staircase on the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and West Third Street[69]
  • One on the west side of Sixth Avenue at West Third Street[69]

There are also four additional closed exits that directly led to the mezzanine. Two went to Washington Place, and the other two went to West 4th Street itself.[68] There is a fifth closed exit at one northern fare control area; it led to the southwestern corner of Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue.

Nearby points of interest

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