Rector Street station (BMT Broadway Line)

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 Rector Street
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Station platforms and tracks
Station statistics
AddressRector Street & Trinity Place
New York, NY 10006
Borough Manhattan
Locale Financial District
Coordinates 40°42′28″N74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°W / 40.70771; -74.013004 Coordinates: 40°42′28″N74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°W / 40.70771; -74.013004
Division B (BMT) [1]
Line     BMT Broadway Line
Services    N   NYCS-SSI-nightsonly.svg (late nights)
   R   NYCS-SSI-allexceptnights.svg (all except late nights)
   W   NYCS-SSI-weekdaysonly.svg (weekdays only)
TransitAiga bus trans.svg New York City Bus: M55, X27, X28
Aiga bus trans.svg MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4
StructureUnderground
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedJanuary 5, 1918;105 years ago (January 5, 1918) [2]
Accessible not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned (Elevator under construction for downtown platform only [3] )
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No
Traffic
20192,014,996 [4] Decrease2.svg 6.5%
Rank234 out of 424 [4]
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Cortlandt Street
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Rector Street station (BMT Broadway Line)

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The Rector Street station is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the corner of Rector Street and Trinity Place in Financial District, Lower Manhattan, the station is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the N train takes over service. The W train also serves this station on weekdays.

History

The Rector Street station on the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT)'s Broadway Line opened on January 5, 1918. [2] The station's platforms originally could only fit six 67-foot-long (20 m) cars. In 1926, the New York City Board of Transportation received bids for the lengthening of platforms at nine stations on the Broadway Line, including the Rector Street station, to accommodate eight-car trains. Edwards & Flood submitted a low bid of $101,775 for the project. [5] The platform-lengthening project was completed in 1927, bringing the length of the platforms to 535 feet (163 m). [6] [7] The city government took over the BMT's operations on June 1, 1940. [8] [9]

Station layout

GStreet levelExit/entrance
B1
Platform level
Side platform
Northbound NYCS-bull-trans-R-Std.svg toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Cortlandt Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-W-Std.svg toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard weekdays (Cortlandt Street)
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Uptown R train of R46 cars arriving

Since the station is on a grade, there is a noticeable slant. The station has two side platforms, and there are no overpasses, underpasses, or mezzanines to connect the platforms within fare control. The station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The original trim lines were replaced with white cinderblock tiles, except for small recesses in the walls, which contain blue-painted cinderblock tiles. The staircases were repaired and new platform edges were installed. The blue cinderblock field contains the station-name signs and white text pointing to the exits. The renovation also replaced incandescent lighting with fluorescent lighting.

The uptown platform maintains one old style sign while at the north end of the downtown/Brooklyn platform is an entire closed off portion of the platform. There are several (painted over) old style Rector Street mosaic signs on this platform.

Directly to the south, the BMT Broadway Line curves southeast under the Cunard Building and Bowling Green Offices Building to reach the Whitehall Street station. [10]

Exits

Each platform has its own platform-level fare controls. The full-time exit is at the north end of the station, at Rector Street and Trinity Place. The uptown platform contains a token booth and three street stairs: two to the northeast corner of the aforementioned intersection, and one to the southeast corner. The downtown platform is unstaffed and has four street stairs: two to the southwest corner and two to the northwest corner. [11] [10]

Just south of the fare control for the downtown platform, there are two exit-only turnstiles leading to an exit-only stair to the western side of Trinity Place. [11] [10]

At the extreme south end of the station, there is another street stair from the uptown platform to the northwest corner of Greenwich and Morris Streets, directly across from Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza and the entrance to the separate Rector Street station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. [11] [10]

The downtown platform is proposed to become ADA-accessible with the construction of an elevator leading from an easement in 50 Trinity Place to the downtown platform. The elevator's installation was required per zoning regulations, which mandated that the developers of 77 Greenwich Street (also known as 42 Trinity Place) fund transit improvements at the station. [3] However, whether the elevator will be installed has been unknown since April 2020 due to various lawsuits involving the MTA and FIT Investment Corp (the developer for 50 Trinity Place). [12] [13] The MTA and the developers of 77 Greenwich Street allege that FIT Investment Corp "has blocked the MTA and 42 Trinity from building the elevator with more than a year of stalling, empty promises and excuses. They have continued to occupy the sidewalk, and, when we tried to stop them, sued the MTA." However, FIT Investment Corp claims that it is "actually constructing a component of this station’s accessibility project, specifically the mechanical room for the elevator equipment."

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