Eighth Street – New York University (BMT Broadway Line)

Eighth Street – New York University
New York City Subway rapid transit station
300px Platform for downtown trains
Station statistics
Address	East Eighth Street & Broadway New York, NY 10003
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Greenwich Village, NoHo
Coordinates
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N  (all times)       Q  (late nights only)       R  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	New York City Bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M8, X27, X28
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	September 4, 1917 (1917-09-04)
Former/other names	Eighth Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	5,894,747  4.6%
Rank	75
Station succession
Next north	14th Street – Union Square: N  Q  R
Next south	Prince Street: N  Q  R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only
Location

Eighth Street – New York University (signed as 8th Street) is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the N. Located at the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, it is served by the N train at all times, the R train at all times except late nights, and the Q train during late nights. It is the closest stop on the Broadway Line to New York University. There is no free transfer between directions.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit / Entrance
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound local	← toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach ( toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue via Brighton late nights) (Prince Street) ← toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (Prince Street)
	Southbound express	← does not stop here (all except late nights)
	Northbound express	→ does not stop here (all except late nights) →
	Northbound local	→ toward Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard ( toward 57th Street – Seventh Avenue late nights) (14th Street – Union Square) → → toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (14th Street – Union Square) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

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Mosaic

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Mosaic

Eighth Street opened on September 4, 1917 as part of the first section of the BMT Broadway Line from Canal Street to 14th Street – Union Square. It has four tracks and two side platforms.

The station's overhaul in the late 1960s included extending the station platforms required for 10 car trains, and fixing the station's structure and the overall appearance (including the staircases and platform edges), replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. In 2001, the station received a state of repairs including upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

In 2005, the artwork Tim Snell's Broadway Diary mosaics installed on the station platform wall titles in both directions.

External links

File:8th Street - Station Stairs.jpg

Entrance

• nycsubway.org—BMT Broadway Subway: 8th Street
• Station Reporter — N Train
• Station Reporter — R Train
• Flickr — Photo of Tim Snell's Cube mural
• Wired New York Forum — Subway mosaics and their artists
• MTA's Arts For Transit — 8th Street – NYU (BMT Broadway Line)
• Eighth Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Waverly Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View