Division A (IRT) Structure Underground Borough Manhattan Locale Financial District | Services 1 (all times) Opened 1 July 1918 Rebuilt 15 September 2002 Tracks 2 | |
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Address Rector Street & Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10006 Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line Transit connections NYCT Bus: M55, X27, X28
MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4 Similar Chambers Street, 145th Street, Canal Street, 23rd Street, Dyckman Street | ||
Rector Street is a station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Rector Street and Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times.
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Station layout
This underground station, opened on July 1, 1918, has two tracks and two side platforms. Each platform has mosaic trim line and name tablets of mostly green and brown. The tiles are painted light green below the "R" tablets.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the subway tunnels around Cortlandt Street collapsed, and the line was closed until September 15, 2002. During the intervening period, the station was renovated.
Due to water damage to South Ferry caused by Hurricane Sandy, all 1 trains terminated at this station until April 4, 2013, when the former South Ferry Loop terminal station reopened.
Exits
This station has five fare control areas and there are no crossover between the uptown and downtown sides. On the northern end of the downtown platform, there are two High Entry/Exit Turnstiles leading to one street stair that goes up to the northwest corner of Rector and Greenwich Streets coming from two high entrance turnstiles directly on the platform. In the middle of the platform, two staircases lead up to a tiny intermediate level where a single exit-only turnstile leads to a staircase that goes up midblock on Greenwich Street between Rector and Edgar Streets. The last fare control area for this side at the south end has HEET turnstiles leading to a single staircase that goes up to just south of Edgar Street in a plaza where Greenwich Street ends at the foot of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel.
Directly across the street from this area, there are two street stairs that lead down to two HEET turnstiles on the uptown platform. A single staircase at the northern end of this platform leads to the tiny, full-time mezzanine. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and one street stair that leads to the north corner of Rector and Greenwich Streets.