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168th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

168th Street
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New York City Subway rapid transit station complex
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Entrance at 169th Street.
Station statistics
Address West 168th Street, Broadway, and
St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032
Borough Manhattan
Locale Washington Heights
Coordinates 40°50′28″N 73°56′23″W / 40.841022°N 73.939791°W / 40.841022; -73.939791Coordinates: 40°50′28″N 73°56′23″W / 40.841022°N 73.939791°W / 40.841022; -73.939791
Division A (IRT), B (IND)
Line IND Eighth Avenue Line
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services       1 all times (all times)
      A all times (all times)
      C all except late nights (all except late nights)
Transit connections Bus transport NYCT Bus: M2, M3, M5, M100, Bx7 (M4 on Fort Washington Avenue)
Bus transport Short Line Bus: 208
Levels 2
Other information
Opened July 1, 1948 (68 years ago) (1948-07-01)
Wireless service Wi-Fi and cellular service is provided at this station
Former/other names Washington Heights–168th Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 8,009,233 (station complex) Decrease 1%
Rank 49 out of 425
168th Street
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New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Uptown platform looking south with passenger bridge connecting to the downtown platform
Station statistics
Division A (IRT)
Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services       1 all times (all times)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened April 14, 1906 (110 years ago) (1906-04-14)
Wireless service Wi-Fi and cellular service is provided at this station
Station succession
Next north 181st Street: 1 all times
Next south 157th Street: 1 all times
168th Street
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New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Station statistics
Division B (IND)
Line       IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services       A all times (all times)
      C all except late nights (all except late nights)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened September 10, 1932 (84 years ago) (1932-09-10)
Accessible This station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (IND Eighth Avenue Line platforms only)
Wireless service Wi-Fi and cellular service is provided at this station
Station succession
Next north 175th Street: A all times
(Terminal): C all except late nights
Next south 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue (local): A late nights C all except late nights
145th Street (express): A all except late nights


Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 north 175th Street: A all times
none: C all except late nights
Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 south 125th Street: A all times C all except late nights

168th Street (formerly Washington Heights–168th Street), is an underground New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and IND Eighth Avenue Line. It is located at the intersection of 168th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights, Manhattan and served by the:

The IRT portion of the station is very deep and requires the use of elevators to reach the platform after fare control, which is on a full length mezzanine above the higher IND portion. Another set of elevators connecting the IND platforms and tracks to the mezzanine, and an elevator between the mezzanine to the street, make that portion handicapped-accessible. The IRT section is not ADA accessible since the platforms have no elevators (reaching the elevators to fare control requires climbing short staircases).

In 2005, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The full-time fare control area is at the center of the mezzanine, and has a turnstile bank, token booth, and one staircase and one elevator going up to the northeast corner of West 168th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue. The part-time side at the north end of the mezzanine has HEET turnstiles and three staircases, two to the southwest corner of Broadway and 169th Street and one to the northwest corner. An exit-only turnstile in the middle of the mezzanine, near the corridor leading to the IRT platforms, leads to a staircase going up to north end of Mitchell Square Park on the south side of West 168th Street between Broadway and Saint Nicholas Avenue.

The passageway leading to the IRT elevators is just beyond the full-time fare control area. There are two exit stairs past this part-time fare control area, both of which diverge in opposite directions near the southwest corner of Broadway and 168th Street.


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