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28th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

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Division
  
A (IRT)

Structure
  
Underground

Opened
  
1 July 1918

Locale
  
Chelsea

Tracks
  
4

Transit connections
  
NYCT Bus: M7, M20

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Borough
  
Manhattan

Added to NRHP
  
30 March 2005

28th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

Line
  
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line

Services
  
1  (all times)       2  (late nights)

Address
  
New York, NY 10001, United States

Similar
  
18th Street, Franklin Street, 86th Street, 23rd Street, 79th Street

28th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times, and by the 2 train during late nights.

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Station layout

This underground station, which opened on July 1, 1918, has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the 2 and 3 trains during daytime hours. Both platforms have their original mosaic trim line, name tablets, and directional signs. Vent chambers are present and there is a closed newsstand on the northbound platform as evidenced by sealed windows on the walls. Blue i-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with black "28" plate signs in white numbering on every other one.

The station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005.

Exits

All fare control areas are on platform level and there are no crossovers or crossunders. The main ones are at the centers of the platforms, at 28th Street. On the Bronx-bound platform, a turnstile bank leads to a mezzanine with a token booth and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue. On the southbound platform, a turnstile bank leads to an unstaffed mezzanine (its Customer Assistance Booth was removed in 2010) and two staircases going up to either western corners of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue.

Both platforms have an exit-only at their extreme south ends, at 27th Street. A single exit-only turnstile from each platform leads to one staircase each going up to either northern corner of Seventh Avenue and 27th Street. The northwest-corner exit, from the southbound platform, is outside Fashion Institute of Technology. The northeast-corner exit is from the northbound platform.

References

28th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) Wikipedia