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72nd Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

72nd Street
"1" train "2" train "3" train
New York City Subway rapid transit station
72nd Street IRT Broadway 013.JPG
Original control house (left) and newer control house, located on opposite sides of 72nd Street
Station statistics
Address area of West 72nd Street, Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Borough Manhattan
Locale Upper West Side
Coordinates 40°46′44″N 73°58′55″W / 40.779°N 73.982°W / 40.779; -73.982Coordinates: 40°46′44″N 73°58′55″W / 40.779°N 73.982°W / 40.779; -73.982
Division A (IRT)
Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services       1 all times (all times)
      2 all times (all times)
      3 all times (all times)
Transit connections Bus transport NYCT Bus: M5, M7, M11, M57, M72, M104
Bus transport MTA Bus: BxM2
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened October 27, 1904; 112 years ago (1904-10-27)
Accessible This station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Wireless service Wi-Fi and cellular service is provided at this station
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 13,341,361 Decrease 0.3%
Rank 22 out of 422
Station succession
Next north 96th Street (express): 2 all except late nights 3 all times
79th Street (local): 1 all times 2 late nights
Next south 66th Street–Lincoln Center (local): 1 all times 2 late nights
Times Square–42nd Street (express): 2 all except late nights 3 all times


Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 north 96th Street: 1 all times 2 all times 3 all times
Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 south 66th Street–Lincoln Center (local): 1 all times 2 late nights
Times Square–42nd Street (express): 2 all except late nights 3 all times

Control House on 72nd Street
MPS Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Control Houses TR
NRHP Reference # 80002684
Added to NRHP May 6, 1980
72nd Street Subway Station (IRT)
MPS New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference # 04001017
Added to NRHP September 17, 2004

72nd Street is an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway, 72nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue (including Verdi Square and Sherman Square) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It is served by the 1, 2 and 3 trains at all times.

The 72nd Street station opened on October 27, 1904, as part of the original subway, with trains running from Brooklyn Bridge to 145th Street. The original configuration of the station was inadequate by IRT standards. It had just one entrance (the control house on the traffic island between 71st and 72nd Streets, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places), and the platforms and stairways were unusually narrow. There were no crossovers or crossunders as the control house had separate turnstile banks and token booths for each side. Express trains ran on the innermost two tracks, while local trains ran on the outer pair.

During the 1950s, the New York City Transit Authority (now the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA) considered converting the station to a local station by walling off the express tracks from the platforms. This would have coincided with 59th Street–Columbus Circle, which is a major transfer point to the IND Eighth Avenue Line, becoming an express stop.


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