Wall Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) Facts for Kids

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Wall Street

New York City Subway station (rapid transit)

148th Street-bound 3 train leaves the station

Station statistics

Address

Wall Street & William Street
New York, NY 10005

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Financial District

Coordinates

40°42′23″N 74°00′34″W / 40.706311°N 74.009528°W

Division

A (IRT)

Line

IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line

Services

2 alltimes (all times)
3 allexceptnights (all except late nights)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M15, M15 SBS, SIM5, SIM15, SIM35
MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, QM7, QM8, QM11, QM25

Staten Island Ferry at Whitehall Terminal

Structure

Underground

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Other information

Opened

July 1, 1918; 105 years ago

Station code

333

Wireless service

Opposite-direction transfer available

Yes

Traffic

Passengers (2019)

6,910,581

7.1%

Rank

56 out of 425

Station succession

Next north

Fulton Street: 2 alltimes 3 allexceptnights

Next south

Clark Street: 2 alltimes 3 allexceptnights

Location
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Street map

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

Wall Street is a station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Wall Street and William Street in the Financial District of Manhattan. It is served by the 2 train at all times and the 3 train at all times except late nights.

History
Station layout
- Exits
Image gallery
See also

History

Mosaic on the wall

The Wall Street station was built on the portion of the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line built as part of the Dual Contracts, which is the section south of Times Square–42nd Street. The line first opened as a shuttle to 34th Street–Penn Station on June 3, 1917. The line was extended south to South Ferry on July 1, 1918; the Wall Street station opened on the same date, and was the southern terminus of a shuttle on the line's Brooklyn Branch to Chambers Street. On August 1, 1918, the new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square. As a result, shuttle service to this station was replaced by through service. This station was the line's terminus until April 15, 1919, when the Clark Street Tunnel opened, allowing service to run to Brooklyn.

During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Wall Street, along with those at four other stations on the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, were lengthened to 525 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 51-foot IRT cars.

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.

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
P Platform level	Northbound	← toward 241st Street (Fulton Street) ← toward 148th Street (Fulton Street)
	Island platform
	Southbound	→ toward Flatbush Avenue (Clark Street) → → toward New Lots Avenue (Clark Street) →

This underground station is the southernmost in Manhattan on the Brooklyn Branch of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. South of here, the line travels under the East River via the Clark Street Tunnel to Brooklyn Heights. The single island platform is between the two tracks, and is very narrow compared to other stations in system. It has blue I-beam columns and dark blue floors tiles. The walls by the tracks have small "W" tablets on a mosaic trim except at the north end, where they have "WALL ST" written in black letters on white tablets over a green trim line. This is where the platform was extended in 1964–1965.

There is a narrow full-length mezzanine above the platform that has mosaics pointing to, and connecting, all four station entrances.

Exits

Entrance at Nassau and Cedar Streets, just outside 28 Liberty Street. This entrance also provides access to the Broad Street station (J and Z train) and the Wall Street/Broadway station (4 and 5 train).

This station has four sets of entrances/exits. The first exit is at the northern end of the station. It has a customer assistance booth with a bank of turnstiles and long passageway to a set of doors leading to the basement of 28 Liberty Street. A wide staircase leads to an unmarked entrance/exit at the east side of Nassau Street at Cedar Street. Though signs at this entrance/exit say it leads to Cedar and William Streets, which are right outside the building, it does not go to that intersection and the building entrance has no signs informing people that there is a subway entrance inside. This entrance is only open on weekdays and also provides access to the Broad Street station (J and Z train) and the Wall Street/Broadway station (4 and 5 train).

The second exit, also open weekdays only, contains a bank of turnstiles and passageway to a spiral staircase that leads to Pine Street outside 60 Wall Street. The passageway has an artwork called Subway Wall by Harry Roseman made in 1990 and installed after a 1993 station renovation. This exit also has a set of doors to two escalators and a double-wide staircase that go up to the public atrium lobby of 60 Wall Street. This entrance has two red globes and overhead signs, giving the impression of an outdoor station entrance built in the lobby.

The third exit was the original entrance to the station and is staffed full-time. It has a bank of turnstiles and staircases to both northern corners of William and Wall Streets. The entrance at the northeast corner, outside 48 Wall Street, is made of ornate metal and has a sign reading "Interborough Rapid Transit Co-to All Trains."

The last exit is at the south end of the station, which leads to the same intersection as the third exit but is in a separate fare control area. A single double-wide staircase from the platform leads to two HEET turnstiles and two regular turnstiles. Staircases lead to both southern corners of William and Wall Streets; the southeastern corner exit is outside 55 Wall Street. This exit, though open at all times, is unstaffed as there is no token booth.

A fifth exit, which led to the southwestern corner of Pine Street and William Street, was closed.