Wall Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

Wall Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Downtown train leaving Wall Street
Station statistics
Address	Wall Street & Broadway New York, NY 10006
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District
Coordinates	40°42′28″N 74°00′42″W / 40.70771°N 74.011717°WCoordinates: 40°42′28″N 74°00′42″W / 40.70771°N 74.011717°W
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services	4  (all times)       5  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M5, X1, X2, X3, X4, X17, X19, X27, X28 NJT Bus: 120
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	June 12, 1905
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	6,708,745[1]  9.8%
Rank	66 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Fulton Street: 4  5
Next south	Bowling Green: 4  5
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times
Location
Wall Street Subway Station (IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Under Broadway at Wall Street, New York, NY 10016
Coordinates	40°42′27″N 74°0′44″W / 40.70750°N 74.01222°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1905
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference #	04001011[2]
Added to NRHP	September 17, 2004

Wall Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street. It is served by the 4 train at all times and the 5 train at all times except late nights.

History

Track layout
to Fulton St to Bowling Green

Downtown entrance at Trinity Church

This station opened on June 12, 1905, as a one-stop extension of the original subway from Fulton Street.^[3][4]

On January 6, 1994, Automated Fare Collection turnstiles went into service at this station, and at the Whitehall Street station.^[5]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Woodlawn (Fulton Street) ← toward Nereid Avenue PM rush hours, Dyre Avenue all times (Fulton Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Crown Heights–Utica Avenue ( toward New Lots Avenue late nights) (Bowling Green) → → toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College weekdays, Bowling Green weekends (Bowling Green) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2	Crossunder	Transfer between platforms, passageway to Broad Street

Wall Street is an underground, two-tracked station, with two side platforms that are slightly offset from one another.

The standard IRT name tablet mosaics are original as well as the fancy ceiling accents and the iron pillars. On the southbound platform is a wooden token booth and ticket chopper, wooden restroom doors on each side. The walls on the platforms are clad in pink stone at the bottom, followed by white tiles, the name of the station in white letters and blue mosaics, and decorated tiles at the top. The top part is decorated with tiles depicting vines or artistic depictions of a New Amsterdam stapled colonial house with the palisade wall in front of it, which gave today's Wall Street its name.

There is a crossunder about midway along the length of the platforms, and a lesser-used one at the north end. At street level are faux kiosks on the southbound side. A complex underground passageway exists outside the fare control which connects to the Broad Street station on the BMT Nassau Street Line, and to the Wall Street station on the Brooklyn Branch of the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. This passageway also leads to the Chase Manhattan Plaza and the old Equitable Building. The stations have a shared exit to the eastern corner of Cedar and Nassau Streets.^[6]

Downtown 5 train of R142 cars arriving

The entrances are covered with curved metal roofs painted green. The metal is sculpted with patterns made to resemble wood or leaves.

Renovation

The original white tiles from the early 20th century were walled over with glossy dark blue tiles in the 1970s, with only the name of station allowed to stay. Similar remodeling work was done during that time with 51st Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, using beige tiles.

In 2006, a project to renovate/restore the station back to its original appearance began. As of May 2006, the blue tiles mentioned above had been removed and remnants of the original white tile-work exposed. The condition of the original tiles were fair to poor to completely missing. All missing tiles were refitted based on original models.

Image gallery

• 
  Depiction of the wall of New Amsterdam on a mosaic tile
• 
  Old wooden ticket booth
• 
  View of the wall, consisting of pink stone at the bottom, white tiles, the mosaic name of the station and further artful tiles
• 
  Decorated ceiling elements

References

1. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
2. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
3. "SUBWAY TRAINS RUN AGAIN THIS MORNING; Through Service Promised for the rush-Hour Crowds. TUNNEL PUMPED OUT AT LAST Big Water Main That Burst Was an Old One, Pressed Into Service Again After a Five-Hour Watch.". Retrieved 2016-09-18.
4. "SUBWAY TO WALL ST. OPEN IN TEN DAYS; And All the Way to the Bronx by July 1. WHOLE ROAD READY IN AUGUST As to the Air Therein, William Barclay Parsons Says It Is Pure and Can't Be Bettered.". Retrieved 2016-09-18.
5. "About NYC Transit - History". 2002-10-19. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
6. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2016.

Further reading

• Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0

External links

• nycsubway.org – IRT East Side Line: Wall Street
• Wall Street - Rector Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View