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Grand Street Station · Opened 11/28/1967

Two tracks and two side platforms. Opened in 1967 as part of the Chrystie Street connection work. There is an extra exit being planned to the street, no details available but a contract has been issued. The tile is ivory in a vertical arrangement with a robin blue tile band. The Grand Street name is in white. A stylized train artwork is at the stairs to the mezzanine and also in the mezzanine.

The walls along the platforms are designed to be removed, for conversion into two island platforms; space for two tracks which would have been used by the Second Avenue Subway is behind the walls. It might be a good idea to move the walls back to make available the widened platforms. The immense growth of Chinatown can be appreciated by watching this station. When it opened in 1967 only a few riders got on or off here; the modest entrances were in keeping with this light traffic. Steadily the ridership here swelled. Today there are portions of the day when the platform is filled end to end with people pressed against the wall and toeing the platform edge.

After Grand Street, the trains from the IND 6th Avenue Subway cross the Manhattan Bridge and arrive at DeKalb Avenue station. South of the station where the tracks curve onto Manhattan Bridge are the original trackways from the BMT Broadway station at Canal Street. They are best seen from the back window of a Brooklyn-bound train.

Artwork: Trains of Thought, Gardner/Heller


(image 107316) (204k, 1044x700)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Zach Summer
Date: 10/25/2009
Notes: Northbound platform
Viewed (this week/total): 95 / 95


(image 107317) (232k, 1044x700)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: D
Car: R68 (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988) 2524
Photo by: Zach Summer
Date: 10/25/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 70 / 70


(image 88391) (220k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: B
Car: R68 (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988) 2824
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 7/16/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1322


(image 78293) (211k, 619x819)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 12/16/2007
Notes: Station entrance.
Viewed (this week/total): 12 / 2407


(image 77694) (197k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 11/25/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1741


(image 77695) (260k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 11/25/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1619


(image 74379) (196k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/22/2007
Notes: Station view.
Viewed (this week/total): 7 / 1883


(image 74381) (184k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/22/2007
Notes: Station view.
Viewed (this week/total): 8 / 1454


(image 74382) (188k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/22/2007
Notes: Station view.
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1497


(image 74383) (226k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/22/2007
Notes: Station view.
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 1671


(image 70257) (119k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: David Harris
Date: 7/27/2007
Notes: Shuttle stop sign at Grand St. (former shuttle during Manhattan Br. construction).
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 2104


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Photo by: Lorraine Maruska
Date: 10/21/2006
Viewed (this week/total): 8 / 2871


(image 39581) (244k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: D
Car: R68 (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988) 2559
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 6/30/2005
Notes: Southbound platform
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 5802


(image 39582) (231k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: D
Car: R68 (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988) 2558
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 6/30/2005
Notes: Southbound platform
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 5655


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: Fan Trip
Car: BMT D-Type Triplex 6019
Photo by: Joe Testagrose
Date: 9/20/1970
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 5178


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: D
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4448 (ex-4548)
Photo by: Doug Grotjahn
Collection of: Joe Testagrose
Date: 6/29/1969
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 6415


(image 4495) (144k, 1024x676)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: D
Car: R27 8135
Photo by: Joe Testagrose
Date: 5/11/1969
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 5774


(image 24383) (130k, 1044x707)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND 6th Avenue
Location: Grand Street
Route: Fan Trip
Car: R11 (Budd, 1949)
Collection of: David Pirmann
Date: 11/18/1967
Viewed (this week/total): 28 / 6984

   
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