Rector Street (BMT Broadway Line)
Rector Street   | |||||||||
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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Station platforms and tracks | |||||||||
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| Address |
Rector Street & Trinity Place New York, NY 10006 | ||||||||
| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||
| Locale | Financial District | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′28″N 74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°WCoordinates: 40°42′28″N 74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||
| Line | BMT Broadway Line | ||||||||
| Services |
N  (late nights) R  (all except late nights) W  (weekdays only) | ||||||||
| Transit connections |
 New York City Bus: M5, X27, X28 MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4 | ||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | January 5, 1918[1] | ||||||||
| Wireless service |
 [2] | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
1,896,968[3]  69.9% | ||||||||
| Rank | 255 out of 422 | ||||||||
| Station succession | |||||||||
| Next north |
Cortlandt Street: N R W | ||||||||
| Next south |
Whitehall Street – South Ferry: N R W | ||||||||
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Rector Street is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the corner of Rector Street and Trinity Place in Financial District, Lower Manhattan, the station is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the N train takes over service. The W train also serves this station on weekdays.
Station layout
| G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance |
| B1 Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Northbound | ← toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Cortlandt Street) ← late nights, weekdays toward Ditmars Boulevard (Cortlandt Street) | |
| Southbound | → toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Whitehall Street) → → toward Coney Island late nights (Whitehall Street) →→ towards Whitehall Street weekdays (Terminus) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Since the station is on a grade, there is a noticeable slant. The station has two side platforms, downtown and uptown, which are not connected. This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The overhaul changed the station's structure and the overall appearance, replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 1970s-style wall tiles, signs and fluorescent lights. It also modernized staircases and platform edges. The blue tiles, which are not standard in BMT stations, provide the backdrop to the lettering, similar to Prospect Avenue station in Brooklyn.
The uptown platform maintains one old style sign while at the north end of the downtown/Brooklyn platform is an entire closed off portion of a defunct platform. There are several (painted over) old style Rector Street mosaic signs on this platform.
Image gallery
Remaining part of the original tiles and mosaics on the uptown platform
Mosaic
Slant of the platform, this station being on a grade
Part of the platform on the southern side that is walled off
Station slope
References
- ↑ New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918
- ↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rector Street (BMT Broadway Line). |
- nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Line: Rector Street
- Station Reporter — N Train
- Station Reporter — R Train
- Rector Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- entrance near Brooklyn Battery Tunnel from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View