72nd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 72nd Street
accessible = yes

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bg_color = #E20F00
line = IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
service = Broadway-Seventh
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
passengers = 11.012 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = -2
borough = Manhattan
open_date=October 27, 1904New York Times, [http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/nytimes-1904-dayoneopen.html Our Subway Open: 150,000 Try It] , October 28, 1904]
north_line = IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
north_local_station = 79th Street
north_local_service = Broadway-Seventh local
north_express_station = 96th Street
north_express_service = Broadway-Seventh express
south_line = IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
south_local_station = 66th Street–Lincoln Center
south_local_station_acc = yes
south_local_service = Broadway-Seventh local
south_express_station = Times Square–42nd Street
south_express_station_acc = yes
south_express_service = Broadway-Seventh express

72nd Street is a station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway, 72nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue (also known as Verdi Square) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is several blocks to the south. The station is served by the NYCS|1, NYCS|2 and NYCS|3 trains at all times.

The original configuration of the station was inadequate by IRT standards. It had just one entrance (the headhouse between 71st and 72nd Streets, now a Registered Historic Place), there was no crossover between the uptown and downtown sides of the station, and the platforms and stairways were unusually narrow. A substantial renovation was completed in October 2002, providing a new headhouse between 72nd and 73rd Streets, slightly wider platforms at the north end of the station, a crossover, and ADA compliance. The station remains unusual, in that the only access points are in the middle of traffic islands, with no station entrances from the sidewalk.

During the 1950s, the New York City Transit Authority (now MTA) considered converting the station to a local station by walling off the express tracks from the platforms. This would have coincided with 59th Street–Columbus Circle station becoming an express stop.

Bus connections

*M5
*M7
*M11
*M57
*M72

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?6:371|IRT West Side Line|72nd Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/1train.htm 1 Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/2train.htm 2 Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/3train.htm 3 Train]