Rector Street station (BMT Broadway Line)

Rector Street
Rector Street
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
	Station platforms and tracks
Station statistics
Address	Rector Street & Trinity Place; New York, NY 10006
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District
Coordinates	40°42′28″N 74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°WCoordinates: 40°42′28″N 74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N (late nights); R (all except late nights); W (weekdays only)
Transit	New York City Bus: M55, X27, X28; MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 5, 1918; 104 years ago
Accessible	not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned (Elevator under construction for downtown platform only)
Opposite-; direction; transfer	No
Traffic
2019	2,014,996 6.5%
Rank	234 out of 424
Station succession
Next north	Cortlandt Street: N R W
Next south	Whitehall Street–South Ferry: N R W
Location
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Track layout
	Legend
Street map
Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops late nights only

The Rector Street station 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.

Station layout[]

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound	← toward 71st Avenue (Cortlandt Street) ← toward Ditmars Boulevard weekdays (Cortlandt Street) ← toward Ditmars Boulevard late nights (Cortlandt Street)
	Southbound	→ toward 95th Street (Whitehall Street) → → toward Whitehall Street weekdays (Terminus)→ → toward Coney Island late nights (Whitehall Street) →
	Side platform

Uptown R train of R46 cars arriving

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. The station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The original trim lines were replaced with white cinderblock tiles, except for small recesses in the walls, which contain blue-painted cinderblock tiles. The staircases were repaired and new platform edges were installed. The blue cinderblock field contains the station-name signs and white text pointing to the exits. The renovation also replaced incandescent lighting with fluorescent lighting.

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 the platform. There are several (painted over) old style Rector Street mosaic signs on this platform.

Directly to the south, the BMT Broadway Line curves southeast under the Cunard Building and Bowling Green Offices Building to reach the Whitehall Street station.^[6]

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.^[7]^[6]

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.^[7]^[6]

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, directly across from Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza and the entrance to the separate Rector Street station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.^[7]^[6]

The downtown platform is proposed to become ADA-accessible with the construction of an elevator leading from an easement in 50 Trinity Place to the downtown platform. The elevator's installation was required per zoning regulations, which mandated that the developers of 77 Greenwich Street (also known as 42 Trinity Place) fund transit improvements at the station.^[3] However, whether the elevator will be installed has been unknown since April 2020 due to various lawsuits involving the MTA and FIT Investment Corp (the developer for 50 Trinity Place).^[8]^[9] The MTA and the developers of 77 Greenwich Street allege that FIT Investment Corp "has blocked the MTA and 42 Trinity from building the elevator with more than a year of stalling, empty promises and excuses. They have continued to occupy the sidewalk, and, when we tried to stop them, sued the MTA." However, FIT Investment Corp claims that it is "actually constructing a component of this station’s accessibility project, specifically the mechanical room for the elevator equipment."

Lower Manhattan transit

Legend


1 Franklin Street					Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall 4 5 ( 6 )
1 2 3 Chambers Street					Chambers Street J Z
A C ( E ) Chambers Street–WTC					City Hall R W
2 3 Park Place
1 WTC Cortlandt					Cortlandt Street R W
( HOB NWK ) World Trade Center					Fulton Street 2 3 4 5 A C J Z
1 Rector Street					Rector Street R W
4 5 Wall Street					Wall Street 2 3
4 5 Bowling Green					Broad Street ( J Z )
R ( 1 W ) South Ferry/Whitehall Street
Whitehall Terminal
South Ferry loops

Nearby points of interest[]

65 Broadway^[10]
American Stock Exchange Building^[10]
Cunard Building^[10]
Empire Building^[10]
Robert and Anne Dickey House^[10]
Trinity Church^[10]

Image gallery[]

Remaining part of the original tiles and mosaics on the uptown platform
Mosaic
Slant of the platform, this station being on a grade
Part of the platform on the southern side that is walled off
Station slope

References[]

^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
^ The New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918
^ ^a ^b "TPHS / Trinity Place Holdings Inc. FORM 10-Q (Quarterly Report) - May 10, 2018 - Fintel.io". fintel.io. United States Securities And Exchange Commission. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cox, Jeremiah. "Rector Street (R)". The SubwayNut. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
^ "FIT Investment Corp. Sues MTA over 50 Trinity Place Elevator". January 22, 2020.
^ "MTA loses suit against hotel developer over elevator construction at Rector Street station | amNewYork".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2018.

External links[]

nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Line: Rector Street
Station Reporter — N Train
Station Reporter — R Train
Rector Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
entrance near Brooklyn Battery Tunnel from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

[1] "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

[42nd-2] The New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918

[elevator-3] "TPHS / Trinity Place Holdings Inc. FORM 10-Q (Quarterly Report) - May 10, 2018 - Fintel.io". fintel.io. United States Securities And Exchange Commission. Retrieved April 18, 2019.

[4] "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.

[riderref-5] "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.

[maps-6] "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

[Cox-7] Cox, Jeremiah. "Rector Street (R)". The SubwayNut. Retrieved January 2, 2017.

[8] "FIT Investment Corp. Sues MTA over 50 Trinity Place Elevator". January 22, 2020.

[9] "MTA loses suit against hotel developer over elevator construction at Rector Street station | amNewYork".

[MTA-NameofNeighborhood-2015-10] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2018.

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