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Spring Street ​​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Northbound entrance
Station statistics
Address	Spring Street & Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10013
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Hudson Square, SoHo
Coordinates	40°43′32″N 74°00′15″W / 40.725503°N 74.004035°W / 40.725503; -74.004035
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services	A  (late nights) ​   C  (all except late nights) ​   E  (all times)
Transit	New York City Bus: M5, M21, X27, X28
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	September 10, 1932; 92 years ago (September 10, 1932)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	2,941,927  17.2%
Rank	109 out of 423
Station succession
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Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekends during the day Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction Stops all times except nights and rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

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.

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. The station has numerous closed exits.

Station layout

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 Van Dam 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.

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", showing 81 photos he had taken of workers in Serra Palada, Brazil of poor workers digging in government-run gold mines with their hands and primitive tools, along with 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.

References

1. "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
2. ^ New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
3. ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
4. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
5. "C Train". Stationreporter.net. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
6. "IND Station Tile Colors". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
7. Michael W. Brooks. Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
8. Tracy Fitzpatrick (May 30, 2009). Art and the Subway: New York Underground. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
9. "IN THE SUBWAYS; A Little Digging Yields Clues to the Revolution". Retrieved February 15, 2013.
10. ^ "subway station art". Ephemeral New York. Retrieved February 15, 2013.

External links

Media related to Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• 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

v t e Stations of the New York City Subway, by line (physical trackage)
Eighth Ave. Line ​​​​	Inwood–207th Street Dyckman Street 190th Street 181st Street 175th Street 168th Street 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue 155th Street [← to 155th Street, Concourse Line] 145th Street 135th Street 125th Street 116th Street Cathedral Parkway–110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street 81st Street–Museum of Natural History 72nd Street 59th Street–Columbus Circle [to Seventh Avenue, Sixth Ave. Line → / ← to Seventh Avenue, Queens Blvd. Line] 50th Street 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal 34th Street–Penn Station 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Spring Street Canal Street Chambers Street / World Trade Center Fulton Street High Street [to Jay Street–MetroTech, Fulton St. Line →]
See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Stations and line segments in italics are closed, demolished, or planned (temporary closures are marked with asterisks). Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. Struck through passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

• IND Eighth Avenue Line stations
• New York City Subway stations in Manhattan
• Railway stations opened in 1932
• SoHo, Manhattan