Bowery (BMT Nassau Street Line)

Bowery
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Bowery & Delancey Street New York, NY 10002
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Lower East Side, Bowery
Coordinates	40°43′13″N 73°59′39″W / 40.720299°N 73.994079°W / 40.720299; -73.994079Coordinates: 40°43′13″N 73°59′39″W / 40.720299°N 73.994079°W / 40.720299; -73.994079
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Nassau Street Line
Services	J  (all times)       Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M103
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 island platforms (1 in regular service)
Tracks	3 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened	August 4, 1913; 103 years ago (1913-08-04)
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,184,920  12.1%
Rank	344 out of 425
Station succession
Preceding station   New York City Subway   Following station Canal Street toward Broad Street BMT Nassau Street Line J  Z  Essex Street toward Parsons/Archer
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
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Bowery is a station on the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Bowery and Delancey Street in the Lower East Side and Bowery neighborhoods, it is served by the J train at all times and the Z train during rush hours in peak direction.

Construction of this underground station began in August 1907 and was almost completed by the end of 1910. However, the BMT Nassau Street Line to the south did not open until August 4, 1913 when Chambers Street was ready for service.

This station was originally configured like a typical express station with two island platforms and four tracks; express service ran on the inner tracks and local service on the outer tracks. When it was built, the station was an important connection point for elevated and streetcar lines. With those lines long gone, a four-track station was no longer considered necessary. A renovation of the Nassau Street Line, completed in October 2004, resulted in the former northbound platform being sealed off with service in both directions now provided on the former southbound platform, so that northbound trains now use the former southbound express track. On the abandoned side, only the outer track remains.

The station has three tracks and two island platforms. The fourth track, the former northbound express on the abandoned side, was removed in the aforementioned 2004 renovations.

The station has two mezzanine areas on each side of Bowery. One part of the station has a high ceiling which was built for a proposed subway to pass through it. There is also a "Future Doorway" at this station where an opening could be made to the never-built subway station if it had side platforms. At the curve between Bowery and Canal Street, there is a small provision for a line into Spring Street, for which no definite plan was ever provided. Due to the depth, there were escalators that were provided in the original construction, one on each platform running to the east mezzanine. The escalator on the south platform was either not installed or removed long ago.

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