Christopher Street–Stonewall
Northbound 1 train departs
Station statistics
Address	Christopher Street & Seventh Avenue South New York, New York
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Greenwich Village
Coordinates	40°43′59″N74°00′11″W / 40.733°N 74.003°W /40.733; -74.003
Division	A (IRT)[1]
Line	IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1  (all times) ​  2  (late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus:M8,M20 PATH:JSQ–33,HOB–33,JSQ–33 (via HOB) (atNinth Street orChristopher Street)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1918; 107 years ago (1918-07-01)
Former/other names	Christopher Street–Sheridan Square
Traffic
2024	3,005,038[2]  6.7%
Rank	108 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station 14th Street 1  ​2  towardVan Cortlandt Park–242nd Street Local Houston Street 1  ​2  towardSouth Ferry does not stop here
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to14th Street toHouston Street
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends

TheChristopher Street–Stonewall station, formerly known asChristopher Street–Sheridan Square, is a localstation on theIRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of theNew York City Subway. Located at the intersection ofChristopher Street andSeventh Avenue South in theGreenwich Village neighborhood ofManhattan, it is served by the1 train at all times and by the2 train during late nights.

The station was built by theInterborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of theDual Contracts withNew York City, and opened on July 1, 1918. The station had its platforms extended in the 1960s, and was renovated in 1991–1994. The station was renamed after the nearbyStonewall National Monument in June 2024 to commemorate theLGBT rights movement catalyzed by theStonewall riots, which took place at the nearbyStonewall Inn.

TheDual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in theCity of New York. The contracts were "dual" in that they were signed between the City and two separate private companies (theInterborough Rapid Transit Company and theBrooklyn Rapid Transit Company), all working together to make the construction of the Dual Contracts possible. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan.^[3][4][5]

The construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of theLexington Avenue Line, would change the operations of the IRT system. Instead of having trains go via Broadway, turning onto 42nd Street, before finally turning onto Park Avenue, there would be two trunk lines connected by the42nd Street Shuttle. The system would be changed from looking like a "Z" system on a map to an "H" system. One trunk would run via the new Lexington Avenue Line down Park Avenue, and the other trunk would run via the new Seventh Avenue Line up Broadway. In order for the line to continue down Varick Street and West Broadway, these streets needed to be widened, and two new streets were built, the Seventh Avenue Extension and the Varick Street Extension.^[6] It was predicted that the subway extension would lead to the growth of the Lower West Side, and to neighborhoods such asChelsea andGreenwich Village.^[7][8]

In August 1917, the Greenwich Village Public Service Committee requested that theNew York Public Service Commission rename the station from Christopher Street to Christopher Street—Sheridan Square. The Public Service Commission voted to make the change on August 20, 1917.^[9]

Christopher Street–Sheridan Square opened as part of an extension of the line from34th Street–Penn Station toSouth Ferry on July 1, 1918.^[10][11] Initially, the station was served by a shuttle running fromTimes Square to South Ferry.^[10][12] The new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square.^[13] An immediate result of the switch was the need to transfer using the 42nd Street Shuttle in order to retrace the original layout. The completion of the "H" system doubled the capacity of the IRT system.^[7]

The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.^[14][15] On August 9, 1964, theNew York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced the letting of a $7.6 million contract to lengthen platforms at stations on the Broadway—Seventh Avenue Line fromRector Street to34th Street–Penn Station, including Christopher Street, and stations fromCentral Park North–110th Street to145th Street on the Lenox Avenue Line to allow express trains to be lengthened from nine-car trains to ten-car trains, and to lengthen locals from eight-car trains to ten-car trains. With the completion of this project, the NYCTA project to lengthen IRT stations to accommodate ten-car trains would be complete.^[16]

In 1981, theMetropolitan Transportation Authority listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.^[17] The station was renovated by in-house forces between 1991 and 1994.

In 2023, a bill was introduced in theNew York State Legislature to rename the station after the nearbyStonewall National Monument.^[18] The state legislature voted in June 2024 to allow the station to be renamedChristopher Street–Stonewall station. The new name would commemorate theLGBT rights movement catalyzed by theStonewall riots, which took place at the nearbyStonewall Inn.^[19][20] The station was officially renamed on June 28, 2024.^[21][22]

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound local	← towardVan Cortlandt Park–242nd Street(14th Street) ← towardWakefield–241st Street late nights(14th Street)
	Northbound express	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ towardSouth Ferry(Houston Street) → → towardFlatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College late nights(Houston Street) →
	Side platform

This underground station has twoside platforms and four tracks. The station is served by the1 at all times^[23] and by the2 during late nights;^[24] the center express tracks are used by the 2 and 3 trains during daytime hours.^[24][25] The station is between14th Street to the north andHouston Street to the south.^[26]

Both platforms have the standardIRT trim line and mosaic name tablets reading "CHRISTOPHER ST. SHERIDAN SQ." on two lines. The columns are painted dark green with every other one having the standard black station name plate with white lettering. There are also signs directing toNew York University.Fixed platform barriers, which are intended to prevent commuters falling to the tracks, are positioned near the platform edges.^[27][28]

The station features a site specific artwork, entitledGreenwich Village Murals, created in 1994 by Lower East Side artistLee Brozgol and the students of Public School 41. It features twelve mosaic frame panels on the platform walls depicting the history ofGreenwich Village. The names of some of these panels include "Bohemians", "Rebels", "Founders", and "Providers".^[29]

Each platform has onefare control area at the center containing aturnstile bank and token booth. There is no free transfer between directions. The South Ferry-bound fare control has four street stairs to the diagonal intersection of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue: two to the northwestern corner and two to the southwestern one. The Bronx-bound fare control has a single staircase to the island formed by Seventh Avenue, West Fourth Street, and Grove Street.^[30]

TheStonewall National Monument, encompassingChristopher Park and theStonewall Inn, is across West Fourth Street from the Bronx-bound entrance.^[30]

TheHess triangle, a small triangular-shaped plaque in the sidewalk with one 65-centimeter (26 in) side and two 70-centimeter (28 in) sides, is located outside the South Ferry-bound entrances at the southwest corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue South.^[30]

• Stookey, Lee (1994).Subway ceramics : a history and iconography of mosaic and bas relief signs and plaques in the New York City subway system. Brattleboro, Vt: L. Stookey.ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0.OCLC 31901471.

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