East Broadway (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

East Broadway
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	East Broadway & Rutgers Street New York, NY 10002
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Lower East Side
Coordinates	40°42′51″N 73°59′25″W / 40.714216°N 73.990259°W / 40.714216; -73.990259Coordinates: 40°42′51″N 73°59′25″W / 40.714216°N 73.990259°W / 40.714216; -73.990259
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	F  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M9
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 1, 1936; 81 years ago (1936-01-01)
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	4,576,662  4.5%
Rank	107 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Delancey Street: F
Next south	York Street: F
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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East Broadway is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at East Broadway and Rutgers Street in the Lower East Side, it is served by the F train at all times.

The station has one narrow, slightly curved island platform. There is an abandoned tower at the north end of the platform. The station has two mezzanines, four open staircases, three closed staircases, and one escalator. The full-time entrance at Madison Street has one street staircase, while the part-time entrance at Canal and Rutgers Streets has three. A passageway outside of fare control connects the two areas.

The tile band is medium Parma violet with a slightly darker border, set two tiles high. Captions below show the station name abbreviated as "E BWAY". The I-beams are painted a similar shade of violet. The trackside walls show a considerable pattern of aging and occasional water damage.

The 1992 artwork at this station is called Displacing Details by Noel Copeland, with assistance by students from the Henry Street Settlement.

There are many closed sections at East Broadway. There are restrooms that have been converted to office spaces. Inside fare control, the open intermediate level's mezzanine is split into two halves; the portion between the two halves was shuttered and is now used as maintenance space. Right below the open intermediate level is an entire closed intermediate level mezzanine, which now serves as storage space as well. This closed mezzanine is accessible through fenced-off stairways at the either end of the station. A shuttered staircase in the middle of the platform level led to Henry Street.

The north half of the open intermediate level mezzanine was designed to eventually become a station of the unbuilt IND Worth Street Line. A locked door, located in the north end of the mezzanine, reveals additional closed platform space and an electrical room that hides the rest of the trackway and platform space. In this closed space, the platform floor drops to the level of the intended westbound trackway for the unbuilt line. The unused space runs for no more than fifteen feet before ending at a solid wall. Another door that leads to the electrical room hides the eastbound trackway. Near the north end of this station, a different ceiling structure angling across marks where the unbuilt subway would have gone. The ramp that descends from the full-time side would have led to the same intermediate level, with a station facility in between, but that was never constructed. On the open intermediate level's mezzanine, the unusual spacing of some of the pillars marks where the line's platforms would have been placed. The closed trackways are also accessible through the closed intermediate level mezzanine, though this level is somewhat lower than that of the trackways.

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