34th Street – Penn Station (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

34th Street–Penn Station
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Northbound local platform
Station statistics
Address	West 34th Street & Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Chelsea
Coordinates	40°45′04″N 73°59′28″W / 40.751°N 73.991°W / 40.751; -73.991Coordinates: 40°45′04″N 73°59′28″W / 40.751°N 73.991°W / 40.751; -73.991
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1  (all times)       2  (all times)       3  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M4, M7, M20, M34 SBS, M34A SBS, Q32, X17J, X22, X22A, X31 MTA Bus: BxM2 Academy Bus: X23, X24 Amtrak, LIRR, NJT Rail (at Penn Station)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms (local) 1 island platform (express)
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	June 3, 1917; 99 years ago (1917-06-03)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	28,309,160  1.2%
Rank	5 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Times Square–42nd Street: 1  2  3
Next south	28th Street (local): 1  2  14th Street (express): 2  3
Next north	Times Square–42nd Street: 1  2  3
Next south	Chambers Street: 1  2  3
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only
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34th Street–Penn Station is an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 34th Street and Seventh Avenue, it is served by the 1 and 2 trains at all times, and the 3 train at all times except late nights. Connections are available to the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak at Pennsylvania Station.

34th Street–Penn Station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was opened on June 3, 1917, as part of an extension of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the dominant subway in Manhattan at the time, from Times Square–42nd Street to South Ferry. It was served by a shuttle train to Times Square until the rest of the extension opened a year later on July 1, 1918. This meant that the subway would be expanded down the Lower West Side to neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village and the western portion of Lower Manhattan.

As part of this and the northern IRT Lexington Avenue Line extension, the IRT network would be radically changed from an S-shaped line connecting the eastern side of Lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side to an H-shaped network with two parallel lines, the East and West Side Lines, and a shuttle at 42nd Street connecting them.