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Franklin Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

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Division
  
A (IRT)

Opened
  
1 July 1918

Locale
  
Tribeca

Structure
  
Underground

Borough
  
Manhattan

Tracks
  
4

Franklin Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

Address
  
Franklin Street & Varick Street New York, NY 10013

Line
  
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line

Services
  
1  (all times)       2  (late nights)

Transit connections
  
NYCT Bus: M20 NJT Bus: 120

Similar
  
18th Street, 28th Street, 86th Street, Clark Street, 79th Street

Franklin Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Franklin Street, Varick Street, and West Broadway. It is served by the 1 train at all times, and by the 2 train during late nights.

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Station layout

The station has two side platforms and four tracks with no crossover or crossunder.

There are "store window"-style art displays on the southbound platform and a faux-newsstand on the northbound side. Although the station's original wall tiling was replaced during renovations, its mosaic bands were kept; there are "Franklin Street" large mosaics, small "F" mosaics and directional mosaics "To Franklin St." and "To North Moore St." The floor tiles are rose-colored.

Exits

The full-time entrance is on the uptown side, on a traffic island where Varick Street and West Broadway meet. There is a kiosk reminiscent of the original IRT kiosks at 72nd Street and Bowling Green, but it was added during the station's renovation during the mid-1990s. There are two downtown street stair entrances on either western corner of Varick and Franklin Streets, but the booth is not staffed at all times. There are part-time high-exit turnstiles one block north, at both northern corners of Varick and North Moore Streets, on both the uptown and downtown sides.

References

Franklin Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) Wikipedia