First Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)

 1 Avenue
 "L" train
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address First Avenue & East 14th Street
New York, NY 10003
Borough Manhattan
Locale East Village, Stuyvesant Park, Stuyvesant Town
Coordinates 40°43′53″N 73°58′57″W / 40.731324°N 73.982577°W / 40.731324; -73.982577Coordinates: 40°43′53″N 73°58′57″W / 40.731324°N 73.982577°W / 40.731324; -73.982577
Division B (BMT)
Line       BMT Canarsie Line
Services       L  (all times)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: M14A, M14D, M15 (northbound), M15 Select Bus Service (northbound)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened June 30, 1924 (1924-06-30)
Rebuilt July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01) to December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31)
Station code 119[1]
Accessible not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Wireless service [2]
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 7,071,729[3] Decrease 7.7%
Rank 58 out of 425
Station succession
Next west Third Avenue: L 
Next east Bedford Avenue: L 

First Avenue is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of First Avenue and East 14th Street at the border of Stuyvesant Park, Stuyvesant Town, and the East Village in Manhattan,[4] it is served by the L train at all times.

Station layout

Track layout
to 3 Av
to Bedford Av
Entrance
G Street level Exit/entrance
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Westbound ← "L" train toward Eighth Avenue (Third Avenue)
Eastbound → "L" train toward Canarsie (Bedford Avenue) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

This station opened on June 30, 1924, as part of the 14th Street–Eastern Line, which ran from Sixth Avenue under the East River and through Williamsburg to Montrose Avenue and Bushwick Avenues.[5][6]

This is the easternmost Canarsie Line station in Manhattan. East of here, the line travels under the East River to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

This station has two side platforms and two tracks. The platforms are columnless and have the standard BMT style trim-line and name tablets. The former contains "1" tablets in standard intervals while the latter consists of "FIRST AVE" in Times New Roman font.

In September 1983 this station was the site of a New York City Transit Police arrest of a black vandal, Michael Stewart, who was writing graffiti on the station wall, and who later died in police custody. Six of the police officers involved, all of them white, were acquitted by an all-white jury.[7]

Exits

This station's only entrances/exits are at the extreme west (railroad north) end. From each platform, a single staircase goes up to a small mezzanine that contains a turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs to the east side of First Avenue at 14th Street. The ones on the Eighth Avenue-bound platform lead to the northeast corner while the ones on the Brooklyn-bound platform lead to the southeast corner. The mezzanine on the Brooklyn-bound side has a florist shop outside fare control. There is no free transfer between directions at this station.[8]

As part of the wide scope in the 2019–2020 rebuilding of the Canarsie Tubes that were damaged during Hurricane Sandy, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is going to build new station entrances on both sides of Avenue A to improve service for people living in Stuyvesant Town and the Lower East Side. New elevators would be built in the station.[9][10] Work on the new Avenue A entrances began in July 2017,[11][12] necessitating the relocation of bus stops at that intersection.[13] Construction on the elevator and new street entrances is expected to be completed by 2020.[12]

Nearby points of interest

References

  1. ↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "Subway Tunnel Through". The New York Times. August 8, 1919. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Celebrate Opening of Subway Link". The New York Times. July 1, 1924. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  7. ↑ JURY ACQUITS ALL TRANSIT OFFICERS IN 1983 DEATH OF MICHAEL STEWART, The New York Times
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: East Village" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ "MTA - Press Release - NYC Transit - MTA Seeks Federal Funds to Increase Capacity on Canarsie L Line". mta.info. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  10. ↑ "mta.info | Superstorm Sandy: One Year Later". web.mta.info. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Hobbs, Allegra (July 11, 2017). "MTA Begins Work on New L Train Entrance at Avenue A as Bus Stops Relocate". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on September 1, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  12. 1 2 "Project Description, Budget and Scope". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 31, 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  13. ↑ "Bus stop shelters on East 14th Street removed, will be relocated". Town & Village. July 7, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
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