Rector Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Rector Street
Rector Street
	New York City Subway rapid transit station
	Station platforms and tracks
Station statistics
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: M55, X27, X28; MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 5, 1918[1]
Wireless service	[2]
Traffic
Passengers (2017)	2,213,971[3] 8.6%
Rank	226 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Cortlandt Street: N R W
Next south	Whitehall Street–South Ferry: N R W
Location
Street map
Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops late nights only

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

Track layout

to Cortlandt St

to Whitehall St

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← towards Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Cortlandt Street) ← late nights, weekdays towards Ditmars Boulevard (Cortlandt Street)
	Southbound	→ towards Bay Ridge–95th Street (Whitehall Street) → → towards Coney Island late nights (Whitehall Street) → → towards Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (Terminus) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Uptown R train of R46 cars arriving

Since the station is on a grade, there is a noticeable slant. The station has two side platforms, and there are no overpasses, underpasses, or mezzanines to connect the platforms within fare control. 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 the platform. There are several (painted over) old style Rector Street mosaic signs on this platform.

Exits

Each platform has its own platform-level fare controls. The full-time exit is at the north end of the station, at Rector Street and Trinity Place. The uptown platform contains a token booth and three street stairs: two to the northeast corner of the aforementioned intersection, and one to the southeast corner. The downtown platform is unstaffed and has four street stairs: two to the southwest corner and two to the northwest corner.^[4]^[5]

Just south of the fare control for the downtown platform, there are two exit-only turnstiles leading to an exit-only stair to the western side of Trinity Place.^[4]^[5]

At the extreme south end of the station, there is another street stair from the uptown platform to the northwest corner of Greenwich and Morris Streets.^[4]^[5]

Lower Manhattan transit

1 Franklin Street

Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall 4 5 (

6 )

1 2 3 Chambers Street

Chambers Street J Z

A C (

E ) Chambers Street–WTC

City Hall R W

2 3 Park Place

1 WTC Cortlandt

Cortlandt Street R W

(

HOB NWK ) World Trade Center

Fulton Street 2 3 4 5 A C J Z

1 Rector Street

Rector Street R W

4 5 Wall Street

Wall Street 2 3

4 5 Bowling Green

Broad Street (

J Z )

R (

1 W ) South Ferry/Whitehall Street

Whitehall Terminal

South Ferry loops

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 May 18, 2016.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
1 2 3 Cox, Jeremiah. "Rector Street (R)". The SubwayNut. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
1 2 3 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

External links

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

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[42nd-1] New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918

[wifi-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.

[Cox-4] 1 2 3 Cox, Jeremiah. "Rector Street (R)". The SubwayNut. Retrieved January 2, 2017.

[maps-5] 1 2 3 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

Stations of the New York City Subway, by service
Broadway Local	71st Avenue 67th Avenue 63rd Drive–Rego Park Woodhaven Boulevard Grand Avenue–Newtown Elmhurst Avenue Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue 65th Street Northern Boulevard 46th Street Steinway Street 36th Street–Northern Boulevard Queens Plaza Lexington Avenue/59th Street Fifth Avenue–59th Street 57th Street–Seventh Avenue 49th Street Times Square–42nd Street 34th Street–Herald Square 28th Street 23rd Street 14th Street Eighth Street–New York University Prince Street Canal Street City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street South Ferry–Whitehall Street Court Street Jay Street–MetroTech DeKalb Avenue Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center Union Street Ninth Street Prospect Avenue 25th Street 36th Street–Fourth Avenue 45th Street 53rd Street 59th Street–Fourth Avenue Bay Ridge Avenue 77th Street 86th Street Bay Ridge–95th Street
Broadway Local	Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard Astoria Boulevard 30th Avenue Broadway 36th Avenue 39th Avenue Queensboro Plaza Lexington Avenue/59th Street Fifth Avenue–59th Street 57th Street–Seventh Avenue 49th Street Times Square–42nd Street 34th Street–Herald Square 28th Street 23rd Street 14th Street Eighth Street–New York University Prince Street Canal Street City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street South Ferry–Whitehall Street
See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Note: Service variations, station closures, and reroutes are not reflected here. Stations with asterisks have no regular peak, reverse peak, or midday service on that route. See linked articles for more information.