Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

Spring Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Station statistics
Address	Spring Street & Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10013
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Hudson Square, SoHo
Coordinates
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services	A  (late nights)       C  (all except late nights)       E  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M5, M21, X27, X28
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	September 10, 1932 (September 10, 1932)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	3,782,314  4.6%
Rank	133
Station succession
Next north	West Fourth Street – Washington Square: A  C  E
Next south	Canal Street: A  C  E
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only
Location

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Northbound entrance

Spring Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Spring Street and Sixth Avenue in the Hudson Square and SoHo neighborhoods of lower Manhattan, it is served by the C and E trains, the former of which is replaced by the A train during late nights.

History

Spring Street opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the original operating segment of the Independent Subway System (IND) from Chambers Street to Inwood – 207th Street. Extensions southward in 1933 and 1936 brought direct access to Brooklyn on the IND Fulton Street Line, while service from Spring Street to Queens became possible with the opening of the IND Queens Boulevard Line in August 1933 to Jackson Heights.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (West Fourth Street – Washington Square) ← toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (West Fourth Street – Washington Square)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (Canal Street) → → toward World Trade Center (Canal Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2	-	Crossunder between platforms

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Station identification mosaic

Like most local subway stations, Spring Street has two side platforms and four tracks. The two center express tracks are used by the A train during daytime hours. A crossunder just within fare control allows a free transfer between directions.

All fare control areas are at platform level. The station's main ones are at the south end of the platform. Each contains banks of regular and HEET turnstiles, a token booth, and a single staircase going up to Spring Street and Sixth Avenue. The one on the northbound side is built inside a school building and leads to the northeast corner while the one on the southbound side leads to the northwest corner. The southbound platform has an un-staffed HEET entrance that has a single staircase going up to the southwest corner of Vandam Street and Sixth Avenue. There are also closed fare control areas at the north end of the station, which led to all four corners of the intersection of Prince Street/Charlton Street and Sixth Avenue.

Wall tiling suggests that fare controls and a crossunder have been removed from the north end of the station. The platforms have a blue trim line on a dark blue border (ultramarine blue and cobalt blue, with replacement tiles at the north end that are ultramarine blue and navy blue). The name tablets consist of "SPRING ST" in white sans-serif font on a dark blue background with a lighter blue border. Beneath the trim line and name tablets are "SPRING" and directional signs in white lettering on a black border tiled onto the walls. Blue I-beam columns run along the entire length of both platforms, with every other one having the standard black and white station signs.

Artwork

Mosaic depicting the 14th Street – Union Square station's platform at the entrance to Spring Street station

In December 1984, artist Chilean Alfredo Jaar rented all the ad space in the station for the month,and put up an installation he called "Rushes," which showed 81 photos he had taken of poor Brazilian workers digging in Serra Pelada, a government-run gold mine. Scattered amongst them were signs giving world oil prices.

The 1994 artwork installed at the stairway of the northbound platform's fare control is a large, lively mosaic called New York City Subway Station by Edith Kramer. It consists of a single painting depicting 14th Street – Union Square on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.

External links

• nycsubway.org—IND 8th Avenue: Spring Street
• nycsubway.org — New York Subway Station Artwork by Edith Kramer (1994)
• Station Reporter — C Train
• Station Reporter — E Train
• Spring Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Vandam Street entrance from Google Maps Street View