Canal Street (BMT Broadway Subway)
   
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Canal Street Station · Opened 9/6/1915Canal Street is next and has two side
platforms surrounding four tracks. The station has recently been
renovated to restore the original look, with new mosaics featuring
Chinese lettering to indicate this station's presence in the vibrant
Chinatown neighborhood. The Chinese symbols on the red plaques mean
"money" and "luck", and the tablet has ideographs that actually read
"China" and "Town". One of the station's original mosaic tablets has
been preserved at the Transit Museum.
The express line from the Manhattan Bridge stops at a
lower level station. From the Bridge's south side tracks, the first
stop in Manhattan is this lower level station at Canal Street. After
leaving Canal Street, the bridge tracks join the BMT Broadway
Subway as the express tracks along the line until 57th Street, where
the tracks diverge to the 60th and 63rd Street Tunnels to Queens.
The express tracks visible at the BMT Broadway local
station at Canal Street are not actually express tracks and have never
been used in regular service. They originate at the unused lower level
of City Hall (see the previous page), run past Canal Street, and then
dead end, just before the bridge tracks rise in their place. This is a
remnant of changes made when the Manhattan Bridge was included in
subway service plans in the Dual Contracts
era. Originally it was intended for Broadway local service to
originate at City Hall upper level and proceed north on the local
tracks. The tracks coming from Brooklyn via the Montague Street Tunnel
were to run though the lower level of City Hall, and then continue as
the express service up Broadway. The tracks from the Manhattan Bridge
were to stop at the Canal Street bridge line platform, and then
proceed crosstown on Canal Street to the Hudson River.
During much of the Manhattan Bridge reconstruction
project, this station was "abandoned", and only used as part of the
transfer between the BMT Broadway local station and the BMT Nassau
St. station. For a short time in 1997, during one of these periods of
closure, an art exhibit known as the Canal Street Canal, by
artist Alexander Brodsky, was installed on the northbound trackway. It
involved installation of a large waterproof tub filled with water,
with Venetian canal boats floating inside. The Bridge Line station has
been reopened since July 22, 2001.
Some relative depths of stations in the Canal Street
complex are as follows, +/- 10 feet.
- BMT Broadway platforms, 40 feet below street
- BMT bridge line platform, 50 feet
- Lexington Ave. subway platform, 20 feet
- Nassau St. subway platform, 20 feet
Artwork: Canal Street Canal, Alexander Brodsky (1997) Artwork: Empress Voyage 2/27/1784, Bing Lee (1998)
(image 102738) (151k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Christopher Henderson
Date: 7/18/2009
Notes: BMT local track south of Canal Street on the Broadway line.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Paul P.
Date: 6/25/2008
Notes: Station entrance.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Route: N
Car: R160A/R160B
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 6/1/2008
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Zach Summer
Date: 12/21/2007
Notes: Platform view.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Route: N
Car: R160A-1 (Alstom, 2005-2008, 4 car sets) 88xx
Photo by: Danny Molina
Date: 10/8/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/5/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/5/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Kevin Wong
Date: 6/12/2007
Notes: BMT Broadway station entrance.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/10/2005
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/1/2005
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Route: Fan Trip
Car: R7A (Independent Subway) (Pullman, 1938) 1575
Photo by: Dante D. Angerville
Date: 12/19/2004
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Route: Fan Trip
Car: R4 (Independent Subway) (American Car & Foundry, 1932-1933) 484
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 10/29/2004
Notes: Train in regular passenger service, technically not a "fan trip".
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Route: Fan Trip
Car: R1 (Independent Subway) (American Car & Foundry, 1930-1931) 100
Photo by: John Barnes
Date: 10/27/2004
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 6/18/2000
Notes: Canal Street BMT mosaic now at Transit Museum
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1999
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1999
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1999
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1999
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street Bridge Line
Route: Q
Car: R68 (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988) 2848
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 12/3/2008
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Broadway Subway
Location: Canal Street Bridge Line
Route: N
Car: R160B (Kawasaki, 2005-2008) 8724
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 3/23/2008
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