Eighth Street–New York University (BMT Broadway Line)

Eighth Street–New York University

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Platform for downtown trains

Station statistics

Address

East Eighth Street & Broadway
New York, NY 10003

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Greenwich Village, NoHo

Coordinates

40°43′50″N 73°59′33″W / 40.730543°N 73.992448°WCoordinates: 40°43′50″N 73°59′33″W / 40.730543°N 73.992448°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: M1, M2, M3, M5, M8, X27, X28

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 4, 1917^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Former/other names

Eighth Street/NYU

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

5,894,747^[3]

4.6%

Rank

75 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

14th Street–Union Square: N Q R W

Next south

Prince Street: N Q R W

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

Location
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Eighth Street–New York University (signed as 8th Street) is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the N. Located at the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, 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. It is the closest stop on the Broadway Line to New York University. There is no free transfer between directions.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 14 St

to Prince St

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 weekends and late nights ( via Brighton late nights) (Prince Street) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Prince Street) ← toward Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (Prince Streetl)
	Southbound express	← do not stop here
	Northbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ weekdays ( weekends and late nights) toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (14th Street–Union Square) → → toward 57th Street–Seventh Avenue late nights (14th Street–Union Square) → → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (14th Street–Union Square) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Mosaic

Eighth 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] It has four tracks and two side platforms.

The station's overhaul in the late 1960s included extending the station platforms required for 10 car trains, and fixing the station's structure and the overall appearance (including the staircases and platform edges), replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. In 2001, the station received a state of repairs including upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading 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.

In 2005, the artwork Tim Snell's Broadway Diary mosaics installed on the station platform wall titles in both directions.

References

1 2 "Open First Section of Broadway Line". New York Times. 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 Eighth Street – New York University (BMT Broadway Line).

Station entrance

nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Subway: 8th Street
Station Reporter – N Train
Station Reporter – R Train
Flickr – Photo of Tim Snell's Cube mural
Wired New York Forum – Subway mosaics and their artists
MTA's Arts For Transit – 8th Street–NYU (BMT Broadway Line)
Eighth Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Waverly Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations

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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