York Street  ​
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Address	York Street & Jay Street Brooklyn, New York
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Dumbo
Coordinates	40°42′06″N73°59′12″W / 40.701529°N 73.986783°W /40.701529; -73.986783
Division	B (IND)[1]
Line	IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services	F  (all times) <F>  (two rush hour trains, peak direction)​
Transit	NYCT Bus:B25,B67,B69 NYC Ferry: East River, South Brooklyn (BBP Pier 1)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 89 years ago (1936-04-09)
Traffic
2024	3,603,306[2]  7.7%
Rank	89 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station East Broadway F  <F> ​ towardJamaica–179th Street Local Jay Street–MetroTech F  <F> ​ towardConey Island–Stillwell Avenue
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend toEast Broadway toJay Street–MetroTech
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only (limited service)

TheYork Street station is a localstation on theIND Sixth Avenue Line of theNew York City Subway. It is served by theF train at all times and the<F> train during rush hours in the peak direction. It is located at York Street and Jay Street inDumbo.

More than 50 years before the construction of the IND Sixth Avenue Line, the intersection of York and Jay Streets was between two stations on the originalBMT Lexington Avenue Line. West of the intersection wasYork and Washington Streets station, which had a connection to theBrooklyn Bridge via the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway. One block east of the station was theBridge Street station. The line and the two stations ran west to east, were built byBrooklyn Elevated Railroad on May 13, 1885^[3] and closed byBrooklyn Rapid Transit on April 11, 1904.^[4]

New York City mayorJohn Francis Hylan's original plans for theIndependent Subway System (IND), proposed in 1922, included building over 100 miles (160 km) of new lines and taking over nearly 100 miles (160 km) of existing lines, which would compete with the IRT and theBrooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the two major subway operators of the time.^[5][6] TheIND Sixth Avenue Line was designed to replace the elevatedIRT Sixth Avenue Line.^[7] The first portion of the line to be constructed was then known as the Houston–Essex Street Line, which ran under Houston, Essex, and Rutgers Streets. The contract for the line was awarded to Corson Construction in January 1929,^[8] and construction of this section officially started in May 1929.^[9]

The York Street station opened just after midnight on April 9, 1936, when trains began running under the East River via the Rutgers Street Tunnel, which connected the existing portion of the Sixth Avenue Line to a junction with the Eighth Avenue Line north ofJay Street–Borough Hall.^[10] The station was initially served byE trains toChurch Avenue.^[11][12] When further sections of the Sixth Avenue Line opened on December 15, 1940, the F train replaced the E train.^[13]

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
B2	Northbound	← towardJamaica–179th Street(East Broadway)
	Island platform
	Southbound	→ towardConey Island–Stillwell Avenue(Jay Street–MetroTech) →

This underground, deep-level station has two tracks and one narrowisland platform. TheF stops here at all times and is betweenEast Broadway inManhattan to thenorth andJay Street–MetroTech to thesouth.

Located at the southern end of theRutgers Street Tunnel, it has rounddeep-bore walls with matte-finish white brick tiling and purple tile border. The station is about 80 feet (24 m) deep. The platform contains six large circularpiers supporting theManhattan Bridge, which contain white-brick tiling.^[14] The standard I-beam columns are painted blue with alternating ones having black name plates in white lettering. The columns are largely 15 feet (4.6 m) apart, except at two locations where they are 17.5 feet (5.3 m) apart.^[15]: 8

To the north of the station, the Sixth Avenue Line continues via the Rutgers Street Tunnel toManhattan; to the south, it converges with theIND Eighth Avenue Line and ends north ofJay Street. The Sixth Avenue Line tracks continue south as theIND Culver Line.^[16]

The only exit, located at the station's north end, leads to the Rutgers Street tunnel ventilation tower at the intersection of York Street and Jay Street. It has a turnstile bank and long passageway and staircase to the platform.^[17]

There were proposals for a mezzanine at the station's south end, with an unbuilt entrance leading to the intersection of High Street and Jay Street.^[15]: 7 The lack of an entrance created dangerous conditions. For example, when the northern exit was obscured by smoke during a fire in 2003, several commuters were hospitalized because they were mistakenly diverted to the south end of the platform.^[18] In 2016, Delson or Sherman Architects (now operating as Studio Delson and Sherman Architects) proposed a new accessible entrance at the south end of the York Street station.^[19][20][21]

The MTA started conducting a feasibility study for a new entrance in 2021,^[22] following complaints from local residents and politicians who said the single entrance posed a safety hazard.^[23] The study found that both options for a new southern entrance would be prohibitively expensive because of the complex infrastructure around the site. A full stair and elevator entrance would cost $420–450 million, while an entrance containing only elevators would cost $230–260 million.^{[14][15]: 7} In both cases, a new mezzanine would need to be constructed.^{[15]: 10–11} At the time, the MTA was expected to receive $7 million for station improvements from the developer of a nearby building.^[24]

• Dumbo Tech Triangle^[17]
• Farragut Houses^[17]
• Brooklyn Navy Yard^[17]
• Commandant's House at Brooklyn Navy Yard^[17]

Wikimedia Commons has media related toYork Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line).

• nycsubway.org –IND 6th Avenue: York Street
• Station Reporter —F Train
• The Subway Nut —York Street Pictures
• York Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View

• IND Sixth Avenue Line stations
• New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1936
• 1936 establishments in New York City
• Brooklyn Heights
• Dumbo, Brooklyn

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