168th Street (New York City Subway)

168th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station complex
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)       A  (all times)       C  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M2, M3, M5, M100, Bx7 (M4 on Fort Washington Avenue) Short Line Bus: 208
Levels	2
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1948 (68 years ago) (1948-07-01)
Wireless service
Former/other names	Washington Heights–168th Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	8,009,233 (station complex)  1%
Rank	49 out of 422
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times
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168th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 14, 1906 (111 years ago) (1906-04-14)
Wireless service
Station succession
Next north	181st Street: 1
Next south	157th Street: 1
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

168th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services	A  (all times)       C  (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	(IND Eighth Avenue Line platforms only)
Wireless service
Station succession
Next north	175th Street: A  (Terminal): C
Next south	163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue (local): A  C  145th Street (express): A
Next north	175th Street: A  none: C
Next south	125th Street: A  C
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only

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.