34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

Not to be confused with 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line).

34th Street–Penn Station

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

West 34th Street & Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Midtown Manhattan

Coordinates

40°45′08″N 73°59′37″W / 40.752166°N 73.993521°WCoordinates: 40°45′08″N 73°59′37″W / 40.752166°N 73.993521°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

      A (all times)
      C (all except late nights)
      E (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M20, M34 SBS, M34A SBS

Amtrak, LIRR, NJT Rail (at Penn Station)

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms (local)
1 island platform (express)

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Accessible

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

26,147,434^[3]

1.3%

Rank

6 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal: A C E

Next south

23rd Street (local): A C E
14th Street (express): A

north

42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal: A C E

south

14th Street: A C E

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only

Location
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34th Street–Penn Station is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is served by the A and E trains at all times, and by the C train at all times except late nights. The station is adjacent to Pennsylvania Station, the busiest railroad station in the United States as well as a major transfer point to Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and the Long Island Rail Road.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 42 St–PABT upper level

Former trackway from

42 St–PABT lower level

to 23 St

to 14 St

G	Street level	Entrances/exits (Elevator at southeast corner of 34th Street and Eighth Avenue to uptown platform level; take elevator down to lower mezzanine for downtown and both directions )
P Platform level
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal) ← toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal)
	Northbound express	← toward 207th Street (42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound express	→ toward Far Rockaway or Lefferts Boulevard (all except nights), or Rockaway Park (PM rush hours) (14th Street) →
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (23rd Street) → → toward World Trade Center (23rd Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
M	Mezzanine	Connector between platforms

This underground station was one of the 28 stations opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the initial segment of the Independent Subway System, at the time comprising what is now the IND Eighth Avenue Line from Chambers Street to 207th Street.^[1]^[4]

There are four tracks, two side platforms, and one island platform. Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line and 34th Street–Penn Station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line are the only other stations in the system with this configuration.

South of the station, an additional track begins at a bumper block between the two express tracks with a connection to both at both ends (about 25th Street on the south end and 33rd Street on the north end). This allows for various extra movements of trains including storage or removal of a train with mechanical problems to be sent back in the other direction. It could also be used if 34th Street functioned as a terminal station.^[5]

References

1 2 New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ Crowell, Paul (September 10, 1932). "Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
↑ Marrero, Robert (2015-09-13). "469 Stations, 846 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox. Retrieved 2015-10-09.

External links

Express platform

Media related to 34th Street – Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons
nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: 34th Street/Penn Station
nycsubway.org — Garden of Circus Delights Artwork by Eric Fischl (2001)
Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — E Train
MTA's Arts For Transit — 34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
34th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
35th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
33rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations

8th Ave. Line	Inwood–207th Street Dyckman Street 190th Street 181st Street 175th Street 168th Street 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue 155th Street 145th Street [← to 145th Street, Concourse Line] 135th Street 125th Street 116th Street Cathedral Parkway–110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street 81st Street–Museum of Natural History 72nd Street 59th Street–Columbus Circle [to Seventh Avenue, 6th Ave. Line → / ← to Seventh Avenue, Queens Blvd. Line] 50th Street 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal 34th Street–Penn Station 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Spring Street Canal Street Chambers Street–World Trade Center Fulton Street High Street Jay Street–MetroTech [to Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets, Fulton St. Line →]

See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Stations and line segments in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

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