Prince Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Prince Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

Prince Street & Broadway
New York, NY 10012

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

SoHo

Coordinates

40°43′27″N 73°59′52″W / 40.724202°N 73.997812°WCoordinates: 40°43′27″N 73°59′52″W / 40.724202°N 73.997812°W

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Broadway Line

Services

      N (weekends and late nights)
      Q (late nights only)
      R (all except late nights)
      W (weekdays only)

Transit connections

New York City Bus: M5, X27, X28

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 4, 1917^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

5,386,641^[3]

1.4%

Rank

84 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

Eighth Street – New York University: N Q R W

Next south

Canal Street (via Tunnel): N R W
Canal Street (via Bridge): N

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

Location
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Prince Street is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights, the W train on weekdays, the N train during weekends and late nights and the Q train during late nights. Each side platform contains a fare control area and there are no other exits nor any crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfers between opposite directions.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 8 St–NYU

to Canal St (mainline)

to Canal St (Bridge line)

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound local	← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach (Canal Street via Bridge weekends; Canal Street via Tunnel late nights) ← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Brighton late nights (Canal Street via Bridge) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Canal Street via Tunnel) ← toward Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (Canal Street via Tunnel)
	Southbound express	← do not stop here
	Northbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ weekdays ( weekends and late nights) toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (Eighth Street–NYU) → → toward 57th Street–Seventh Avenue late nights (Eighth Street–NYU) → → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Eighth Street–NYU) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Mosaic and frieze

Prince Street opened on September 4, 1917 as part of the first section of the BMT Broadway Line from Canal Street to 14th Street – Union Square.^[1] In the late 1960s, New York City Transit extended the platforms for 10 car trains, and fixed the station's structure and the overall appearance. They replaced the original wall tiles, signs, and incandescent lighting with a 1970s style wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In 2001, the station received a major overhaul. It included an upgrade of the station for ADA compliance and restoration of the original late 1910s tiling. New York City Transit repaired the staircases, re-tiled the walls, fitted new tiling on the floors, upgraded the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

The 2004 artwork, Carrying On, is by Janet Zweig. It uses water jet-cut steel, marble, and slate to create a mural along the entire length (totaling 1,200 feet) of both platforms. The 194 different frames in this frieze detail contain images of New Yorkers from all walks of life. As the title suggests, almost all of the images involve carrying something.

References

1 2 The New York Times, Open First Section of Broadway Line, September 5, 1917
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prince Street (BMT Broadway Line).

nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Line: Prince Street
Station Reporter — N Train
Station Reporter — R Train
MTA's Arts For Transit — Prince Street (BMT Broadway Line)
Prince Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Lobby from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

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Broadway Line	[← to Queens Plaza, Queens Blvd. Line via 60th Street Tunnel and connection / ← to Queensboro Plaza, Astoria Line via 60th Street Tunnel) Lexington Avenue/59th Street Fifth Avenue–59th Street [← to Lexington Avenue–63rd Street, 63rd Street Lines] 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 [to DeKalb Avenue, 4th Ave./Brighton Lines via Manhattan Bridge →] City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street South Ferry–Whitehall Street [to Court Street–Borough Hall, 4th Ave. Line via Montague Street Tunnel →]

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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