Rector Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Rector Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station

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°W / 40.70771; -74.013004Coordinates: 40°42′28″N 74°00′47″W / 40.70771°N 74.013004°W / 40.70771; -74.013004
Division B (BMT)
Line       BMT Broadway Line
Services       N  (late nights)
      R  (all except late nights)
      W  (weekdays only)
Transit connections New York City Bus: M5, X27, X28
MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened January 5, 1918 (January 5, 1918)[1]
Wireless service [2]
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,896,968[3]Increase 69.9%
Rank 255 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Cortlandt Street: N  R  W 
Next south Whitehall Street – South Ferry: N  R  W 

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.

Station layout

Track layout
Legend
to Cortlandt St
to Whitehall St
G Street Level Exit/Entrance
B1
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Cortlandt Street)
late nights, weekdays toward Ditmars Boulevard (Cortlandt Street)
Southbound toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Whitehall Street)
toward Coney Island late nights (Whitehall Street)
towards Whitehall Street weekdays (Terminus)
Side platform, doors will open on the right
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, downtown and uptown, which are not connected. 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.

References

  1. New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918
  2. "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  3. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
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