155th Street (IND Concourse Line)
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155th Street
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
Northbound platform
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| Address | West 155th Street & Frederick Douglass Boulevard New York, NY 10039 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||
| Locale | Harlem, and the Coogan's Bluff section of Washington Heights | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°49′48″N 73°56′21″W / 40.829917°N 73.939104°WCoordinates: 40°49′48″N 73°56′21″W / 40.829917°N 73.939104°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||
| Line | IND Concourse Line | ||||||||
| Services |
B  (rush hours until 7:00 p.m.)D  (all except rush hours, peak direction) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: M10
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1933 | ||||||||
| Wireless service |  |
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| Former/other names | 155th Street – Eighth Avenue | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 1,306,282  0.6% |
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| Rank | 327 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
161st Street – Yankee Stadium: B D
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| Next south |
145th Street: B D
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155th Street (155th Street – Eighth Avenue on some signage) is a local station on the IND Concourse Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, at the border of Harlem, and the Coogan's Bluff section of Washington Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, it is served by the D train at all times except rush hours in peak direction and the B during rush hours only.
This underground station, opened on July 1, 1933, has two side platforms and three tracks. The center track is used by the D express train during rush hours in peak direction. Both platforms have an orange trim line with a black border and "155" in small white lettering on a black border underneath. The name tablets have "155TH ST. – 8TH AVE." in white sans serif lettering on a black background and green border. Yellow I-beam columns run along both columns at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black name plate in white lettering.
The street staircase is extra wide since the Polo Grounds stadium, home of the former New York Giants, was directly upstairs before the team left for San Francisco in 1958. The stadium was demolished in 1964 to make way for public housing, after the New York Mets played there in 1962 and 1963. Today, Rucker Park is located at the entrance of the station.
An abandoned tower sits on the south end of the Brooklyn-bound platform. When the IRT Ninth Avenue Line and later Polo Grounds Shuttle was in service, there was a provision for transfer tickets between the IND underground level and the IRT elevated shuttle level. A very steep walk was needed to make this transfer.
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