Broad Street (BMT Nassau Street Line)

Broad Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
300px Southbound/terminating platform
Station statistics
Address	Broad Street & Wall Street New York, NY 10005
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District
Coordinates
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Nassau Street Line
Services	J  (all times)       Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1931 (1931-05-30)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,834,780  9.4%
Rank	265
Station succession
Next north	Fulton Street: J  Z
Next south	(Terminal): J  Z  Court Street: no regular service
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Location

Broad Street is a station on the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway located at the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets in the Financial District of Manhattan. It serves as the southern terminal of the J train at all times, and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
		Out-of-system transfer to Wall Street
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← ( PM rush hours) toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Fulton Street)
	Southbound	→ ( AM rush hours) termination track → (No regular service: Court Street)
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

File:Broad Street BMT 008.JPG

Grecian revival tablet and frieze circa 1996 from original Vickers design.

This station has two tracks and two side platforms. South of this station, there are two center stub tracks ending at bumper blocks used for laying-up and relaying trains. Further south, the two tracks of the BMT Nassau Street Line merge with the BMT Broadway Line via a flying junction as it enters the Montague Street Tunnel into Downtown Brooklyn. No regular service has used this connection since the M train was re-routed from the Nassau Street Line to the IND Sixth Avenue Line in June 2010.

Trains terminate on the southbound track, then continue to one of the two relay tracks before returning on the northbound track to start service to Brooklyn and Queens.

This station was renovated in the late 1990s and a mosaic design was added the platform walls. Beneath a small green and gold trim-line is a larger gold trim-line with a maroon border and white "B" and "BROAD ST" tablets on a blue-green background at regular intervals.

Entrances/Exits

File:NYC Broad Street J train.jpg

train of R42 cars at Broad Street.

This station has three entrances/exits. The full-time entrance/exit is at the north end above the platforms. Two staircases from each side go up to a mezzanine containing a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside of fare control, two street stairs go up to the southern corners of Wall and Broad Streets. The one outside of the New York Stock Exchange has been closed due to heightened security measures taken after the September 11th attacks.

The other two fare entrances/exits are un-staffed and at platform level. The northbound platform has a part-time bank of both regular and HEET turnstiles and three street stairs, one to the northeast corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place and two along Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street. The southbound platform has turnstiles that were originally HEET access, but were converted to exit-only following the elimination of thru-service at this station, and two staircases to Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street. There was another staircase here leading to the northwest corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place, but it was also closed after the September 11th attacks.

Out of system transfer to Wall Street

File:Broad Street - Exit at 23 Wall Street.jpg

Entrance next to 23 Wall Street, following the restoration of full-time service to the station

Outside of fare control, the station's main entrance/exit has a long passageway to Wall Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line that is only open weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It first runs north three blocks to the basement of One Chase Manhattan Plaza, where two sets of doors and a wide staircase lead to an unmarked entrance/exit at street level. Halfway through the passageway, a short staircase from the west side leads up to a narrower passageway that runs through the basement of the Equitable Building before two offset High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles provide entrance to the subway system. Inside fare control, the passageway splits in half with each branch leading to either side platform of Wall Street. Free connections between the BMT Nassau Street Line and IRT Lexington Avenue Line are available at the next three stations north (Fulton Street, Chambers Street, and Canal Street).

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line: Broad Street
• Station Reporter — J Train
• Wall Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Broad Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• entrances on three corners of Broad Street and Exchange Place from Google Maps Street View
• exit-only on Broad Street from Google Maps Street View