Fulton Street (New York City Subway)

Fulton Street is a rapid transit station on the New York City Subway in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. It consists of four linked stations on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Nassau Street Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line. The first three cross Fulton Street at Broadway, Nassau Street, and William Street respectively; the Eighth Avenue Line station is underneath Fulton Street, between Broadway and Nassau Streets. The station is the eleventh busiest in the system as of 2010 with 18,303,963 passengers.The complex is served by the following trains:

• 2, 4, and A trains at all times
• 3, 5, and C trains at all times except late nights
• J trains on weekdays
• Z trains during rush hours in the peak direction

The Fulton Street Transit Center is a project, currently in progress, that will improve access throughout the transfer station, introduce a new station building, and provide easier access to the World Trade Center site.

IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line platform

Fulton Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line opened on August 1, 1918 as part of an extension towards Brooklyn but originally opened to a temporary terminus at Wall Street before the Clark Street Tunnel could open.

Station layout

Fulton Street station has a standard local configuration of two tracks and one island platform. Brooklyn-bound trains use track K2 while uptown trains use track...
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