Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

Spring Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

Spring Street & Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Hudson Square, SoHo

Coordinates

40°43′32″N 74°00′15″W / 40.725503°N 74.004035°WCoordinates: 40°43′32″N 74°00′15″W / 40.725503°N 74.004035°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

      A (late nights)
      C (all except late nights)
      E (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M5, M21, X27, X28

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

3,782,314^[3]

4.6%

Rank

133 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

West Fourth Street – Washington Square: A C E

Next south

Canal Street: A C E

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

Location
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Northbound entrance

Spring Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Spring Street and Sixth Avenue in the Hudson Square and SoHo neighborhoods of lower Manhattan, it is served by the C and E trains, the former of which is replaced by the A train during late nights.

History

Track layout

Legend

to W 4 St

to Canal St

Spring Street opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the original operating segment of the Independent Subway System (IND) from Chambers Street to Inwood – 207th Street.^[1]^[4] Extensions southward in 1933 and 1936 brought direct access to Brooklyn on the IND Fulton Street Line, while service from Spring Street to Queens became possible with the opening of the IND Queens Boulevard Line in August 1933 to Jackson Heights.^[5]

The station is planned to be renovated as part of the 2010–2014 MTA Capital Program. An MTA study conducted in 2014 found that 31% of station components were out of date.^[6]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (West Fourth Street – Washington Square) ← toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (West Fourth Street – Washington Square)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (Canal Street) → → toward World Trade Center (Canal Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2	-	Crossunder between platforms

Station identification mosaic

Like most local subway stations, Spring Street has two side platforms and four tracks. The two center express tracks are used by the A train during daytime hours. A crossunder just within fare control allows a free transfer between directions.

All fare control areas are at platform level. The station's main ones are at the south end of the platform. Each contains banks of regular and HEET turnstiles, a token booth, and a single staircase going up to Spring Street and Sixth Avenue. The one on the northbound side is built inside a school building and leads to the northeast corner while the one on the southbound side leads to the northwest corner. The southbound platform has an un-staffed HEET entrance that has a single staircase going up to the southwest corner of Vandam Street and Sixth Avenue. There are also closed fare control areas at the north end of the station, which led to all four corners of the intersection of Prince Street/Charlton Street and Sixth Avenue.^[6]

Wall tiling suggests that fare controls and a crossunder have been removed from the north end of the station. The platforms have a blue trim line on a dark blue border (ultramarine blue and cobalt blue, with replacement tiles at the north end that are ultramarine blue and navy blue).^[7] The name tablets consist of "SPRING ST" in white sans-serif font on a dark blue background with a lighter blue border. Beneath the trim line and name tablets are "SPRING" and directional signs in white lettering on a black border tiled onto the walls. Blue I-beam columns run along the entire length of both platforms, with every other one having the standard black and white station signs.

Artwork

Mosaic depicting the 14th Street – Union Square station's platform at the entrance to Spring Street station

In December 1984, artist Chilean Alfredo Jaar rented all the ad space in the station for the month,and put up an installation he called "Rushes," which showed 81 photos he had taken of poor Brazilian workers digging in Serra Pelada, a government-run gold mine. Scattered amongst them were signs giving world oil prices.^[8]^[9]^[10]

The 1994 artwork installed at the stairway of the northbound platform's fare control is a large, lively mosaic called New York City Subway Station by Edith Kramer.^[11] It consists of a single painting depicting 14th Street – Union Square on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.^[11]

References

1 2 New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ Crowell, Paul (September 10, 1932). "Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
↑ "C Train". Stationreporter.net. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
1 2 "Review of the A and C Lines" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 11, 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "IND Station Tile Colors". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
↑ Michael W. Brooks. Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
↑ Tracy Fitzpatrick (May 30, 2009). Art and the Subway: New York Underground. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
↑ "IN THE SUBWAYS; A Little Digging Yields Clues to the Revolution". Retrieved February 15, 2013.
1 2 "subway station art". Ephemeral New York. Retrieved February 15, 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: Spring Street
nycsubway.org — New York Subway Station Artwork by Edith Kramer (1994)
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — E Train
Spring Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Vandam Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platform from Google Maps Street View

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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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