IRT BROADWAY–SEVENTH AVENUE LINE

The 'IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line' (also known as the 'Seventh Avenue Line') is a New York City Subway line. It is one of several lines that serves the A Division (IRT), stretching from South Ferry in Lower Manhattan north to Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street in Riverdale, Bronx.^[1][2] The 'Brooklyn Branch',^[3] from the main line at Chambers Street southeast through the Clark Street Tunnel to Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn, is also part of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.^[4]
The south end of the Brooklyn Branch is unclear. In a 1981 list of "most deteriorated subway stations", the MTA listed Borough Hall and Court Street stations as part of the IRT New Lots Line.^[5] However, as of 2007, emergency exit signs label Court Street as an IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station, and the two parts of Borough Hall are signed as being along the Broadway–Seventh Avenue and IRT Lexington Avenue Lines. The chaining designations "K" (Clark Street Tunnel) and "M" (Joralemon Street Tunnel) join and become "E" (Eastern Parkway Line) at Borough Hall.
The line is also known as the 'IRT West Side Line', since it runs along the west side of Manhattan; the part north of 42nd Street was built as part of the first subway in New York. The line serves places such as Lincoln Center, Columbia University, and the City College of New York.
Train services that use the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line have been colored red on subway signage and literature since 1979. The line is served by the , , and trains, which operate together over much of the line. In the past, the 1 train operated as a skip-stop service in tandem with the , which was discontinued after May 27, 2005; this skip-stop separation existed only in Upper Manhattan during rush hours.
An unused third track along much of the line north of 96th Street has been used in the past for peak direction express service, at least between 96th Street and 137th Street.^[6]

Contents

History

Extent and service

Station listing

References

External links

History

Extent and service

The following services use part or all of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line:

	Current service	Section of line
1	Local	Full line (to South Ferry)
	Express (local late nights)	96th Street to Chambers Street, then Brooklyn Branch
	Express, all but late nights	96th Street to Chambers Street, then Brooklyn Branch

Station listing

	Station	Tracks	Services	Opened	Transfers and notes
Main line
'Bronx'
	Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street			August 1, 1908New York Times, Our First Subway Completed at Last, August 2, 1908, page 10
	238th Street			August 1, 1908
	231st Street			January 27, 1907
	Marble Hill–225th Street			January 14, 1907New York Times, Farthest North in Town by the Interborough, January 14, 1907, page 18	'Metro-North Railroad' Hudson Line at Marble Hill
Broadway Bridge
	215th Street			March 12, 1906New York Times, Trains to Ship Canal, March 13, 1906, page 16
	207th Street			March 16, 1906
	Dyckman Street			March 12, 1906
	191st Street			January 14, 1911[7]
	181st Street			March 16, 1906
	168th Street			April 14, 1906[8]	IND Eighth Avenue Line ()
	157th Street			November 12, 1904
	145th Street			October 27, 1904New York Times, Our Subway Open: 150,000 Try It, October 28, 1904
	137th Street–City College			October 27, 1904
	125th Street			October 27, 1904
	116th Street–Columbia University			October 27, 1904	M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport
	Cathedral Parkway–110th Street			October 27, 1904	M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport
	103rd Street			October 27, 1904
IRT Lenox Avenue Line joins ()
	96th Street	all		October 27, 1904
	91st Street	local		October 27, 1904	Closed February 2, 1959
	86th Street	local		October 27, 1904
	79th Street	local		October 27, 1904
	72nd Street	all		October 27, 1904
	66th Street–Lincoln Center	local		October 27, 1904
	59th Street–Columbus Circle	local		October 27, 1904	IND Eighth Avenue Line ()
	50th Street	local		October 27, 1904
	Times Square–42nd Street	all		June 3, 1917	IRT Flushing Line () IND Eighth Avenue Line ) at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal) BMT Broadway Line () 42nd Street Shuttle () Port Authority Bus Terminal
	34th Street–Penn Station	all		June 3, 1917New York Times, Three New Links of the Dual Subway System Opened, June 3, 1917, page 33	Amtrak, LIRR, and N.J. Transit at Pennsylvania Station
	28th Street	local		July 1, 1918
	23rd Street	local		July 1, 1918
	18th Street	local		July 1, 1918
	14th Street	all		July 1, 1918	IND Sixth Avenue Line () at 14th Street BMT Canarsie Line () at Sixth Avenue PATH at 14th Street
	Christopher Street–Sheridan Square	local		July 1, 1918	PATH at Christopher Street
	Houston Street	local		July 1, 1918
	Canal Street	local		July 1, 1918
	Franklin Street	local		July 1, 1918
	Chambers Street	all		July 1, 1918
Brooklyn Branch splits (); Main line continues ()
	Cortlandt Street			July 1, 1918	Closed since September 11, 2001
	Rector Street			July 1, 1918
	South Ferry			July 1, 1918[9]	Staten Island Ferry at South Ferry
Main line terminates ()
Brooklyn Branch ()
	Park Place			August 1, 1918	IND Eighth Avenue Line () at Chambers Street–World Trade Center PATH at World Trade Center
	Fulton Street			August 1, 1918	IRT Lexington Avenue Line () IND Eighth Avenue Line () BMT Nassau Street Line ()
	Wall Street			August 1, 1918
Clark Street Tunnel
'Brooklyn'
	Clark Street			April 15, 1919
	Borough Hall			April 15, 1919	IRT Eastern Parkway Line () BMT Fourth Avenue Line ()
Merges with IRT Eastern Parkway Line ()

References

1. MTA Capital Construction - South Ferry Terminal Project, Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Evaluation,
2. Metropolitan Transportation Authority,
3. MTA Capital Construction,
4. MTA Capital Construction, Second Avenue Subway, Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement,
5. New York Times, Agency Lists Its 69 Most Deteriorated Subway Stations, June 11, 1981, section B, page 5
6. New York Times, New Subway Expresses, November 18, 1906, page 3
7. New York Times, untitled, January 22, 1911, page X11
8. New York Times, New Subway Station Open, April 15, 1906, page 1
9. New York Times, Open New Subway to Regular Traffic, July 2, 1918, page 11

External links

★ nycsubway.org — IRT West Side Line