155th Street (IND Concourse Line)

This article is about the New York City Subway station at Frederick Douglass Boulevard. For the station at St. Nicholas Avenue, see 155th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

155th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	West 155th Street & Frederick Douglass Boulevard New York, NY 10039
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Harlem, and the Coogan's Bluff section of Washington Heights
Coordinates
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Concourse Line
Services	B  (rush hours until 7:00 p.m.)       D all except rush hours, peak direction (all except rush hours, peak direction)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M10
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1933  (1933-07-01)
Wireless service
Former/other names	155th Street – Eighth Avenue
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,306,282  0.6%
Rank	327
Station succession
Next north	161st Street – Yankee Stadium: B  D all except rush hours, peak direction
Next south	145th Street: B  D all except rush hours, peak direction
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only
Location

155th Street (155th Street – Eighth Avenue on some signage) is a local station on the IND Concourse Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, at the border of Harlem, and the Coogan's Bluff section of Washington Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, it is served by the D train at all times except rush hours in peak direction and the B during rush hours only.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound local	← toward Brighton Beach rush hours (145th Street) ← toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue off-peak hours (145th Street)
	Peak-direction express	← does not stop here (rush hours only in the peak direction) →
	Northbound local	→ toward Bedford Park Boulevard rush hours (161st Street) → → toward Norwood – 205th Street off-peak hours (161st Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Staircase along Frederick Douglass Boulevard within the Polo Grounds Towers.

This underground station, opened on July 1, 1933, has two side platforms and three tracks. The center track is used by the D express train during rush hours in peak direction. Both platforms have an orange trim line with a black border and "155" in small white lettering on a black border underneath. The name tablets have "155TH ST. – 8TH AVE." in white sans serif lettering on a black background and green border. Yellow I-beam columns run along both columns at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black name plate in white lettering.

This station has a full length mezzanine above the platforms. However, only the northern end is open and has four staircases to the platforms. The Brooklyn-bound one has four closed staircases while the Bronx-bound one has five. The mezzanine has yellow I-beam columns. The fare control area at the north end has a turnstile bank, token booth, one exit-only turnstile on each side of the mezzanine, and a quadruple-wide staircase diagonal to the mezzanine that goes up to the west side of Eighth Avenue between 155th Street and Harlem River Drive.

The street staircase is extra wide since the Polo Grounds stadium, home of the former New York Giants, was directly upstairs before the team left for San Francisco in 1958. The stadium was demolished in 1964 to make way for public housing, after the New York Mets played there in 1962 and 1963. Today, Rucker Park is located at the entrance of the station.

An abandoned tower sits on the south end of the Brooklyn-bound platform. When the IRT Ninth Avenue Line and later Polo Grounds Shuttle was in service, there was a provision for transfer tickets between the IND underground level and the IRT elevated shuttle level. A very steep walk was needed to make this transfer.

This is the only station in Manhattan that is served solely by the IND Concourse Line. To the north, the line goes under the Harlem River towards 161st Street – Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. To the south, the line continues south under Saint Nicholas Place to a transfer station with the IND Eighth Avenue Line at 145th Street, south of this station the two lines will merge, which will include a six track subway tunnel under Saint Nicholas Avenue, which will become the standard four track subway tunnel before reaching the 125th Street station.

External links

• nycsubway.org—IND Concourse: 155th Street/8th Avenue
• Station Reporter — B Train
• Station Reporter — D Train
• The Subway Nut — 155th Street – 8th Avenue Pictures
• Eighth Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View