Fulton Street station (New York City Subway)

Fulton Street is a New York City Subway station complex in Lower Manhattan. It consists of four linked stations on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Nassau Street Line and the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. The last three cross Fulton Street at Broadway, Nassau Street, and William Street respectively; the Eighth Avenue Line station is underneath Fulton Street, between Broadway and Nassau Streets. The station is the seventh busiest in the system, as of 2017, with 26,838,473 passengers.[5]

This article is about the station complex in Manhattan. For the renovation of that complex, see Fulton Center. For the station on the IND Crosstown Line, see Fulton Street (IND Crosstown Line). For other uses, see Fulton Street (disambiguation).

 Fulton Street
 ​​​​​​​
New York City Subway station complex
Turnstiles in the Fulton Center
Station statistics
AddressFulton Street between Broadway & Nassau Street
New York, NY 10007
BoroughManhattan
LocaleFinancial District
Coordinates40°42′37″N 74°00′28″W
DivisionA (IRT), B (BMT, IND)
Line      IND Eighth Avenue Line
      IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
      IRT Lexington Avenue Line
      BMT Nassau Street Line
Services      2  (all times)
​      3  (all except late nights)​
      4  (all times)
​      5  (all except late nights)​
      A  (all times)
​      C  (all except late nights)​
      J  (all times)
​      Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: M55, SIM1, SIM2, SIM4, SIM4X, SIM32, SIM34, X27, X28
At Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street via Fulton Center:
      2  (all times)
​      3  (all except late nights)​
      A  (all times)
​      C  (all except late nights)
​      E  (all times)​
​      N  (late nights)
​      R  (all except late nights)
​      W  (weekdays only)
StructureUnderground
Levels3 (Eighth Avenue Line platforms bisect the other 3 lines; Nassau Street platforms are on 2 levels)
Other information
OpenedJuly 1, 1948 (1948-07-01)[1]
Station code628[2]
Accessible ADA-accessible
Wireless service[3]
Traffic
Passengers (2019)27,715,365[4]  0%
Rank5 out of 424[4]

The complex is served by the:

  • 2, 4, A, and J trains at all times
  • 3, 5, and C trains at all times except late nights
  • Z train during rush hours in the peak direction

The Fulton Center is a renovation project that improves access throughout the station complex, introduces a new station building, and provides easier access to the World Trade Center site. It links the Fulton Street subway station with the nearby Chambers Street-World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station complex (one stop north on the A, C, 2 and 3 trains) and the World Trade Center Transportation Hub through the out-of-system Dey Street Passageway. The Fulton Center opened on November 10, 2014.[6]

Station layout
G Street level Exits/entrances
Elevators located:
  • on the southwest corner of Dey Street and Broadway for southbound ​ trains only. Out-of-system accessible transfer available to ​​ trains at World Trade Center/Cortlandt Street.
  • inside the Fulton Center Main Building for northbound ​ trains only.
  • on the northeast corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets for ​ ​ trains.
  • on the southwest corner of William and Fulton Streets for ​ ​ trains.
All other platforms accessible by first using ​ platform.
B1 Mezzanine Fare control, station agents, connections and retail at Fulton Center
Northbound Seventh ← toward 241st Street (Park Place)
← toward 148th Street (Park Place)
Island platform
Southbound Seventh → toward Flatbush Avenue (Wall Street/William) →
→ toward New Lots Avenue (Wall Street/William) →
Side platform
Southbound Nassau → toward Broad Street (Terminus) →
→ AM rush toward Broad Street (Terminus) →
Side platform
Northbound Lexington ← toward Woodlawn (Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall)
← toward Dyre Avenue or Nereid Avenue (Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall)
Southbound Lexington → toward Utica Avenue (New Lots Avenue late nights) (Wall Street/Broadway) →
→ toward Flatbush Avenue weekdays, Bowling Green evenings/weekends (Wall Street/Broadway) →
Side platform
B2 Eastern mezzanine Connections between services
Northbound Nassau ← toward Jamaica Center (Chambers Street/Centre)
← PM rush toward Jamaica Center (Chambers Street/Centre)
Side platform
Western mezzanine Connections and Fulton Center retail
B3 Northbound Eighth ← toward 207th Street (Chambers Street/Church)
← toward 168th Street (Chambers Street/Church)
Island platform
Southbound Eighth → toward Far Rockaway, Lefferts Boulevard or Rockaway Park (High Street) →
→ toward Euclid Avenue (High Street) →
 Fulton St to Cortlandt St subway cross-section
Greenwich St WTC Transportation
Hub (Oculus) /
Westfield Shops		 Church St Broadway Fulton
Center /
Westfield
Shops		 Nassau St William St
1 R / W 4 / 5 J / Z south mezzanine
underpass underpass Dey Street Passageway underpass mezzanine J / Z north mezzanine 2 / 3
mezzanine ← A / C →
PATH
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

IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platform
 Fulton Street
 ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
DivisionA (IRT)
Line      IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services      2  (all times)
​      3  (all except late nights)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedJuly 1, 1918 (1918-07-01)
Station code332[2]
Accessible ADA-accessible
Wireless service[3]
Opposite-direction transfer availableYes
Station succession
Next northPark Place: 2  ​3 
Next northChambers Street: 2  ​3 
Next southWall Street: 2  ​3 
Next southBorough Hall: 2  ​3 
Track layout
to Park Pl
to Wall St

Fulton Street on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was built on the portion of the line built as part of the Dual Contracts, which is the section south of Times Square–42nd Street. The line first opened as a shuttle to 34th Street–Penn Station on June 3, 1917,[7][8] and then south to South Ferry on July 1, 1918. On this same date, the Fulton Street station opened, with service to the station running as a shuttle between Chambers Street and Wall Street, on the line's Brooklyn Branch.[9] On August 1, 1918, the new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square.[10] As a result, shuttle service to this station was replaced by through service.[11]

During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Fulton Street, along with those at four other stations on the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, were lengthened to 525 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 51-foot IRT cars.[12]

Fulton Street station has a standard local configuration of two tracks and one island platform. Brooklyn-bound trains use track K2 while uptown trains use track K3. These designations come from track chaining which measures track distances and are not used in normal conversation. Based on this chaining, Fulton Street is about 19,700 ft (3.73 mi) from post zero at Broadway and 44th Street since this is where the West Side Line "merges" with the 42nd Street Shuttle. This is slightly non-standard signage because it is a local station using express track numbers as these tracks become the express tracks on the main line, providing a reasonable explanation.

There is an ADA-accessible elevator from platform level to the mezzanine at the platform's extreme south end, connecting to the mezzanine, which has elevators to the rest of the station via the IND Eighth Avenue Line platform. The Marine Grill Murals, salvaged from the restaurant of the same name in the Hotel McAlpin, reside near these elevators.

Exits

The station has two mezzanines, separated at Fulton Street. The full-time entrance is to the south mezzanine, at the southeast corner of Fulton and William Streets. There are also part-time entrances mid-block on William Street, and through an office building on John Street. The north mezzanine is open part-time, with an entrance through an office building on the northeast corner of Fulton and William Streets. Like Wall Street, the next station south, there is a narrow island platform and a number of comparatively narrow staircases up to the mezzanine level.[13]

  • Former entrance in doorway of Royal Building. This staircase is currently boarded up.
  • Entrance at William Street and Fulton Street

BMT Nassau Street Line platforms
 Fulton Street
 ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Broad Street-bound platform
Station statistics
DivisionB (BMT)
Line      BMT Nassau Street Line
Services      J  (all times)
​      Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Levels2
Platforms2 side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks2 (1 on each level)
Other information
OpenedMay 29, 1931 (1931-05-29)[14]
Station code106[2]
Accessible ADA-accessible
Wireless service[3]
Opposite-direction transfer availableYes
Station succession
Next northChambers Street: J  ​Z 
Next northMarcy Avenue: J  ​Z 
Next southBroad Street: J  ​Z 
Next southnone: J  ​Z 
Jay Street–MetroTech: no regular service
Track layout
to Chambers St
Superimposed track section
(Right track above left one)
to Broad St
Upper level
 Lower level

Fulton Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line has two tracks and two side platforms, with downtown trains on the upper level and uptown trains on the lower level due to the narrowness of Nassau Street. The station has an unusual layout. The entrance for uptown trains is on the west side of Nassau Street, and the entrance for downtown trains is on the east side of Nassau Street (the reverse of what one would normally expect). It is possible to cross between the uptown and downtown sides via the IND platform, which passes underneath both levels of this station.[15] The station is ADA-accessible via the use of elevators to the IND platform, which then leads to the ADA-accessible Fulton Center main building.

Exits

Exit stairs rise to all four corners of Nassau Street and Fulton Street, with the eastern stairs for the southbound platform and the western stairs for the northbound platform. On the south end of the southbound platform, there are exits to either eastern corner of John and Nassau Streets that are open only during rush hours.[13]

There is a sealed north end exit to Ann Street and passageway to Beekman Street and Pace University to the far north. This passageway was out of system and more than one block long.[13][15]

  • Z train made of R179 cars at Fulton Street, bound for Broad Street.

IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms
 Fulton Street
 ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Uptown platform
Station statistics
DivisionA (IRT)
Line      IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services      4  (all times)
​      5  (all except late nights)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedJanuary 16, 1905 (1905-01-16)
Station code412[2]
Accessible ADA-accessible
Wireless service[3]
Opposite-direction transfer availableYes
Station succession
Next northBrooklyn Bridge–City Hall: 4  ​5 
Next northBrooklyn Bridge–City Hall: 4  ​5 
Next southWall Street: 4  ​5 
Next southBowling Green: 4  ​5 
Track layout
to Brooklyn Bridge
to Wall St

Fulton Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line with two tracks and two side platforms.

History

This station opened on January 16, 1905, as part of a one-stop extension southbound from Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall. Only the northbound platform was in use when service started at this station.[16] The southbound platform opened for service on June 12, 1905, when the subway was extended one stop to the south at Wall Street.[17][18] This marked the first time that the subway had been extended further downtown and towards Brooklyn; the previous terminus, Brooklyn Bridge, was also the original subway's southern end.

Originally, only the southbound platform was ADA-accessible. In October 2012, a new entrance on Dey Street opened for the Dey Street underpass to Cortlandt Street, and an ADA-accessible elevator was installed for the southbound platform.[19] In November 2014, the northbound platform became accessible through an elevator to the underpass that connected to the southbound platform.

The station, which is now a registered New York City Landmark, features a mosaic of the steamboat built by Robert Fulton.[20] The southbound platform incorporates an ornate entrance to the building at 195 Broadway, which features fluted columns, engraved metal signs, ornate railings, and blacked out store windows.

Exits

Despite being on the Lexington Avenue Line, the station actually lies underneath Broadway between Cortlandt and Fulton Streets, as the line takes its name from its trunk avenue in Midtown and Upper Manhattan. A number of exits to street level are available at Dey, John, and Fulton Streets, while the connecting passage to the other stations within the Fulton Street complex lies underneath the latter.[13] Southbound exits are located at:

  • Two stairs, NW corner of Fulton Street and Broadway[13]
  • One stair, 195 Broadway near SW corner of Fulton Street and Broadway[13]
  • One stair, NW corner of Dey Street and Broadway[13]
  • One stair, one elevator, and passageway, SW corner of Dey Street and Broadway[13]
  • One stair, NW corner of Cortlandt Street and Broadway[13]

Northbound exits are located at:

  • Fulton Center building, SE corner of Fulton Street and Broadway[13]
  • One stair, NE corner of Maiden Lane and Broadway[13]
  • An R142 in 5 service at Fulton Street, bound for Bowling Green.
  • Tilework trim detail
  • Column
  • Name plaque
  • 33 Maiden Lane
  • 140 West Street
  • Dey Street stair

Further reading
  • Stookey, Lee (1994). Subway ceramics : a history and iconography of mosaic and bas relief signs and plaques in the New York City subway system. Brattleboro, Vt: L. Stookey. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0. OCLC 31901471.

IND Eighth Avenue Line platform
 Fulton Street
 ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
The IND Eighth Avenue Line platform
Station statistics
DivisionB (IND)
Line      IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services      A  (all times)
​      C  (all except late nights)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedFebruary 1, 1933 (1933-02-01)[21]
Station code172[2]
Accessible ADA-accessible
Wireless service[3]
Opposite-direction transfer availableYes
Former/other namesBroadway – Nassau Street
Station succession
Next northChambers Street: A  ​C 
Next northWest Fourth Street–Washington Square (Eighth): A  ​C 
Next southHigh Street: A  ​C 
Next southJay Street–MetroTech (8th Ave express): A  ​C 
Track layout
to Chambers St
to High St

Fulton Street (formerly Broadway–Nassau Street) on the IND Eighth Avenue Line has two tracks and one island platform. The station is located approximately sixty feet (18m) below ground level. Similar to other stations near it, Fulton Street utilizes a tube station design because of its depth. The tile on this station is colored purple, with wall tiles reading "FULTON". An alternating pattern of "BWAY" and "NASSAU" was the original tiling. The station adopted the "Fulton Street" name in December 2010 to become unified with the other platforms in the station complex.[22] Overhead and column signage carry the new name.

An Arts for Transit piece, Nancy Holt's Astral Grating, was formerly located on the mezzanine but was removed during renovation.

Elevators lead from this line's platform to the mezzanines for the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line platform, both of the BMT Nassau Street Line's platforms, and both of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line's platforms. There is an elevator to street level at the southwestern corner of William and Fulton Streets.

Exits

The IND platform can be accessed via the entrances to any of the three other stations, but the BMT platforms' entrances provide the most direct access.[13]

  • Mezzanine before reconstruction. Note the Marine Grill Murals on the walls
  • Mezzanine after reconstruction
  • Cliff Street Substation supplies power

Notable places nearby

References
  1. "Transfer Points Under Higher Fare; Board of Transportation Lists Stations and Intersections for Combined Rides". The New York Times. June 30, 1948. p. 19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  2. "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  3. "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  4. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  6. "MTA | news | Welcome to the New Fulton Center". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  7. "Three New Links of the Dual Subway System Opened, Including a Shuttle Service from Times Square to Thirty-Fourth Street — Service on the Jerome Avenue Branch From 149th Street North to About 225th Street Began Yesterday Afternoon — The Event Celebrated by Bronx Citizens and Property Owners — The Seventh Avenue Connection Opened This Morning" (PDF). The New York Times. June 3, 1917. p. 1. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  8. "Annual report. 1916-1917". HathiTrust. Interborough Rapid Transit Company. December 12, 2013. p. 22. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  9. "Open New Subway to Regular Traffic — First Train on Seventh Avenue Line Carries Mayor and Other Officials — To Serve Lower West Side — Whitney Predicts an Awakening of the District — New Extensions of Elevated Railroad Service" (PDF). The New York Times. July 2, 1918. p. 11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  10. "Open New Subway Lines to Traffic; Called a Triumph — Great H System Put in Operation Marks an Era in Railroad Construction — No Hitch in the Plans — But Public Gropes Blindly to Find the Way in Maze of New Stations — Thousands Go Astray — Leaders in City's Life Hail Accomplishment of Great Task at Meeting at the Astor" (PDF). The New York Times. August 2, 1918. p. 1. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  11. Whitney, Travis H. (March 10, 1918). "The Seventh and Lexington Avenue Subways Will Revive Dormant Sections — Change in Operation That Will Transform Original Four-Tracked Subway Into Two Four-Tracked Systems and Double Present Capacity of the Interborough" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  12. Annual Report 1964–1965. New York City Transit Authority. 1965.
  13. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  14. "Mayor Drives Train in New Subway Link; the Mayor Becomes a Motorman". The New York Times. May 30, 1931. p. 11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  15. "Broadway Nassau Fulton Street Complex". April 27, 2005. Archived from the original on April 27, 2005. Retrieved July 4, 2016.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  16. "Subway at Fulton Street Busy" (PDF). Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  17. "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" (PDF). Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  18. "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" (PDF). Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  19. "MTA | Press Release | MTA Headquarters | New Dey Street Entrance Opened". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  20. "The ships of the Fulton Street subway station". Ephemeral New York. December 6, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  21. "City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today; Regular Express Service on the Extension of Independent Line Starts at 6:05 A.M." The New York Times. February 1, 1933. p. 19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  22. http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/FultonStreetStation.htm

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