York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

York Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station platform
Station statistics
Address	York Street & Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Dumbo
Coordinates	40°42′06″N 73°59′12″W / 40.701529°N 73.986783°WCoordinates: 40°42′06″N 73°59′12″W / 40.701529°N 73.986783°W
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	F  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B67
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	2,900,416[1]  5.1%
Rank	179 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	East Broadway: F
Next south	Jay Street – MetroTech: F
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

York Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the F train at all times, it is located at York Street and Jay Street in DUMBO and is the only Sixth Avenue Line station in Brooklyn.

History

Track layout
Legend
to E Bway to Jay St

More than 50 years before the construction of the IND Sixth Avenue Line, let alone the station, the intersection of York and Jay Streets was between two stations on the original BMT Lexington Avenue Line. West of the intersection was York and Washington Streets station, which had a connection to the Brooklyn Bridge via the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway. One block east of the station was the Bridge Street station. The line and the two stations ran west to east, were built by Brooklyn Elevated Railroad on May 13, 1885^[2] and closed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit on April 11, 1904.^[3]

Mass transit returned to the vicinity when the York Street subway station opened on April 9, 1936,^[4] as part of an extension of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from East Broadway to Jay Street, although this was more accurately a replacement for the IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan. The IND Fulton Street Line to Rockaway Avenue opened on the same day.^[4]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
		Ramp to Exits, double-wide staircase to platform level
B2	Northbound	← toward Jamaica – 179th Street (East Broadway)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Jay Street – MetroTech) →

This underground, deep-level station has two tracks and one narrow island platform. Located at the southern end of the Rutgers Street Tunnel, it has round deep-bore walls with matte-finish white brick tiling and purple tile border; this tiling scheme is also present on the large, circular platform columns at the center of the station. The standard I-beam columns are painted blue with alternating ones having black name plates in white lettering.

To the north of the station, the Sixth Avenue Line continues via the Rutgers Street Tunnel to Manhattan; to the south, it converges with the IND Eighth Avenue Line and ends north of Jay Street. The Sixth Avenue Line tracks continue south as the IND Culver Line.

Exits

Street entrance

The only exit, located at the station's north end, leads to the Rutgers Street tunnel ventilation tower at the intersection of York Street and Jay Street. It has a turnstile bank and long passageway and staircase to the platform.

Points of interest

• Dumbo Tech Triangle
• Farragut Houses
• Navy Yard

References

1. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
2. ‹The template Cite BDE is being considered for deletion.› "Done at Last". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. May 13, 1885. p. 1.
3. "www.nycsubway.org". www.nycsubway.org.
4. "Two Subway Links Start Wednesday". The New York Times. April 6, 1936. p. 23. Retrieved October 7, 2011.

External links

• nycsubway.org – IND 6th Avenue: York Street
• Station Reporter — F Train
• The Subway Nut — York Street Pictures
• York Street entrance from Google Maps Street View