Division B (BMT) Structure Underground Borough Manhattan Locale Financial District | Line BMT Broadway Line Platforms 2 side platforms Opened 5 January 1918 Tracks 2 | |
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Services N (late nights)
R (all except late nights)
W (weekdays only) Transit connections New York City Bus: M55, X27, X28
MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4 Address New York, NY 10006, United States Similar Cortlandt Street, Union Street, Fifth Avenue–59th Street, 36th Street, City Hall | ||
Rector Street is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the corner of Rector Street and Trinity Place in Financial District, Lower Manhattan, the station is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the N train takes over service. The W train also serves this station on weekdays.
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Station layout
Since the station is on a grade, there is a noticeable slant. The station has two side platforms, and there are no overpasses, underpasses, or mezzanines to connect the platforms within fare control. This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The overhaul changed the station's structure and the overall appearance, replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 1970s-style wall tiles, signs and fluorescent lights. It also modernized staircases and platform edges. The blue tiles, which are not standard in BMT stations, provide the backdrop to the lettering, similar to Prospect Avenue station in Brooklyn.
The uptown platform maintains one old style sign while at the north end of the downtown/Brooklyn platform is an entire closed off portion of a defunct platform. There are several (painted over) old style Rector Street mosaic signs on this platform.
Exits
Each platform has its own platform-level fare controls. The full-time exit is at the north end of the station, at Rector Street and Trinity Place. The uptown platform contains a token booth and three street stairs: two to the northeast corner of the aforementioned intersection, and one to the southeast corner. The downtown platform is unstaffed and has four street stairs: two to the southwest corner and two to the northwest corner.
Just south of the fare control for the downtown platform, there are two exit-only turnstiles leading to an exit-only stair to the western side of Trinity Place.
At the extreme south end of the station, there is another street stair from the uptown platform to the northwest corner of Greenwich and Morris Streets.