York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

York Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station platform
Station statistics
Address	York Street & Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Dumbo
Coordinates	40°42′06″N 73°59′12″W / 40.701529°N 73.986783°W / 40.701529; -73.986783Coordinates: 40°42′06″N 73°59′12″W / 40.701529°N 73.986783°W / 40.701529; -73.986783
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	F  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B67
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 81 years ago (1936-04-09)
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	2,900,416  5.1%
Rank	179 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	East Broadway: F
Next south	Jay Street–MetroTech: F
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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York Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the F train at all times, it is located at York Street and Jay Street in DUMBO and is the only Sixth Avenue Line station in Brooklyn.

More than 50 years before the construction of the IND Sixth Avenue Line, let alone the station, the intersection of York and Jay Streets was between two stations on the original BMT Lexington Avenue Line. West of the intersection was York and Washington Streets station, which had a connection to the Brooklyn Bridge via the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway. One block east of the station was the Bridge Street station. The line and the two stations ran west to east, were built by Brooklyn Elevated Railroad on May 13, 1885 and closed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit on April 11, 1904.

Mass transit returned to the vicinity when the York Street subway station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from East Broadway to Jay Street, although this was more accurately a replacement for the IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan. The IND Fulton Street Line to Rockaway Avenue opened on the same day.

This underground, deep-level station has two tracks and one narrow island platform. Located at the southern end of the Rutgers Street Tunnel, it has round deep-bore walls with matte-finish white brick tiling and purple tile border; this tiling scheme is also present on the large, circular platform columns at the center of the station. The standard I-beam columns are painted blue with alternating ones having black name plates in white lettering.

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