Division B (BMT) Structure Underground Borough Manhattan Tracks 4 | Line BMT Broadway Line Platforms 2 side platforms Opened 4 September 1917 | |
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Services N (weekends and late nights)
Q (late nights only)
R (all except late nights)
W (weekdays only) Transit connections NYCT Bus: M1, M2, M3, M55, M8, X27, X28 Address New York, NY 10003, United States Locale Greenwich Village, NoHo, Manhattan Similar Prince Street, Rector Street, 28th Street, Union Street, Fifth Avenue–59th Street | ||
Eighth Street–New York University (signed as 8th Street) is a local station on the New York City Subway's BMT Broadway Line. 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 so named because it is the closest stop on the Broadway Line to New York University.
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Station layout
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. It has four tracks and two side platforms. The inner two tracks are express tracks that do not serve the station.
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.
Exits
The staffed fare control for each platform is at platform level at the center of each platform. There is no free transfer between directions. Outside of fare control, the northbound platform has one street stair to each eastern corner of Broadway and Eighth Street, while the southbound platform has two street stairs to each western corner of that intersection.
Near the southern ends of each platform, one stair ascends from each platform to an intermediate landing on each side. Each landing has an exit-only turnstile and a HEET turnstile. The exits then ascend to their respective northern corners of Broadway and Waverly Place (the southbound platform's exit to the northwest corner, the northbound platform's exit to the northeast corner).