Wall Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

Track layout
to Fulton St to Bowling Green

Downtown entrance at Trinity Church, with faux kiosk

This station opened on June 12, 1905, as a one-stop extension of the original subway from Fulton Street.[6][7]

On January 6, 1994, Automated Fare Collection turnstiles went into service at this station, and at the Whitehall Street station.[8]

In 1995, as a result of service reductions, the MTA was considering permanently closing one of the two Wall Street stations, as well as two other stations citywide, due to their proximity to each other. Either the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station or the IRT Lexington Avenue Line station would have been closed.[9]

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound	← toward Woodlawn (Fulton Street) ← toward Dyre Avenue or Nereid Avenue (Fulton Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Utica Avenue (New Lots Avenue late nights) (Bowling Green) → → toward Flatbush Avenue weekdays, Bowling Green evenings/weekends (Bowling Green) →
	Side platform
B2	Crossunders	Transfer between platforms, passageway to Broad Street

Downtown 5 train of R142 cars arriving

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 are a disused wooden token booth, wooden restroom doors, and an antique wooden ticket chopper. 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 a terracotta frieze featuring a New Amsterdam step-gabled house with the palisade wall in front of it which gave Wall Street its name.

There are crossunders near the north and south ends of the southbound platform; because of the platform offset, the latter is nearer the middle of the northbound platform.

Also on the platforms are Lariat Tapers, which are bronze loops attached to the columns to serve as seating. These were designed by James Garvey in 2011, as a follow-up to 1997's Lariat Seat Loops at 33rd Street.

Exits

Subway restaurant in Trinity Building subway entrance

On the southbound side, which is the west side of Broadway, street exits are built into the facade of 71 Broadway, south of Rector Street, one on either side of the main entrance. North of Rector Street there are two staircases in front of the Trinity Churchyard fence, each with a faux kiosk, or canopy. At the north end of the station a street exit is built into the side of 111 Broadway. It has an opulent brass-toned banner proclaiming "Subway Entrance" atop the entrance, which is half a flight below ground. The exit also has a Subway restaurant outside fare control.[10][11]

On the northbound side, three staircases lead to the east side of Broadway near Rector Street. The north end of the platform leads to a tunnel which connects on the left to a crossunder, and on the right to a passageway exiting fare control and continuing (another left) to a street staircase at Cedar and Nassau Streets (Chase Manhattan Plaza), and (right) to a connection to the Broad Street station on the BMT Nassau Street Line.[11]

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

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 was fair to poor to completely missing. All missing tiles were refitted based on original models.

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  Depiction of the wall of New Amsterdam on a terra-cotta plaque
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  Old wooden ticket booth
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  View of the wall, consisting of pink stone at the bottom, white tiles, the mosaic name of the station, and the terra-cotta frieze.
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  Decorated ceiling elements

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wall Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line).

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