Cortlandt Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Not to be confused with Cortlandt Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line).

Cortlandt Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Uptown (northbound) platform
Station statistics
Address	Cortlandt Street & Church Street New York, NY 10280
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District, World Trade Center
Coordinates
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N  (late nights)       R  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	New York City Bus: M5, X27, X28 MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4 PATH: NWK–WTC and HOB–WTC (at World Trade Center)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 5, 1918 (1918-01-05) (original) September 15, 2002 (2002-09-15) (first reopening)
Closed	September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11) (first closing) August 20, 2005 (2005-08-20) (second closing)
Rebuilt	November 25, 2009 (2009-11-25) (northbound platform) September 6, 2011 (2011-09-06) (southbound platform)
Accessible
Wireless service
Former/other names	Cortlandt Street - World Trade Center
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	2,713,532  80.9%
Rank	185
Station succession
Next north	City Hall: N  R
Next south	Rector Street: N  R
Next north	14th Street – Union Square: N  R
Next south	Jay Street – MetroTech: N  R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only
Location

Cortlandt Street is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway, located under Church Street, between Fulton and Cortlandt Streets in Lower Manhattan. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the N train takes over service.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance (Elevator at SW and NE corners of Dey Street and Broadway for southbound and northbound services respectively. Out-of-system transfer made to services at Fulton Street via Fulton Center)
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (City Hall) ← toward Ditmars Boulevard late nights (City Hall)
	Southbound	→ toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (Rector Street) → → toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue late nights (Rector Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2	Crossunder, Dey Street Passageway

File:CortlandtSBPlatform2011.jpg

The downtown (southbound) platform in 2011

This underground station, opened on January 5, 1918, has two tracks and two side platforms. It is the closest station on the BMT Broadway Line to the World Trade Center and an exit at the north end once led to the original lower concourse. The southbound platform will have an exit into the World Trade Center Transportation Hub when the complex is opened, and to Fulton Center via the Dey Street Passageway.

Station work

Renovations

The station was overhauled in the late 1970s, with repairs made to the structural and cosmetic appearance. The original BMT wall tiles were covered over with the MTA's then-standard large rectangular wall tiles, with bolted-on signs replacing the "Cortlandt Street" mosaics in the wall. Lighting was converted from incandescent to fluorescent and staircases and platform edges were repaired. Much of the cosmetic change that came with this renovation was undone in a subsequent 1998–1999 renovation. In addition to "state-of-repair" work and upgrades for ADA accessibility, the station's original 1918 tilework was restored. Other improvements were made to the public address system, directional signage, and concrete trackbeds.

The Dey Street Passageway, outside of the fare control, connects the Fulton Street station complex to the Cortlandt Street station and to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. It opened on November 10, 2014, while the World Trade Center was still under construction.

Closures

Ribbon cutting for the reopening of the southbound platform.

The station sustained significant damage during the collapse of the adjacent World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. It was closed for repairs, which included removal of debris, fixing structural damage, and restoring the track beds, which had suffered flood damage in the aftermath of the collapse. The station reopened on September 15, 2002.

On August 20, 2005, the station was closed again for installation of the Dey Street Passageway below Dey Street as part of the Fulton Center project. At the same time, the station is to be made ADA-accessible in both directions. Previously, the station was accessible on the southbound side only via the temporary PATH World Trade Center station's elevator. MTA posters and flyers at that time indicated the station would reopen in the spring of 2006, and later by spring of 2007, but neither reopening schedules occurred. The northbound side of the station finally reopened on November 25, 2009. The southbound platform reopened on September 6, 2011, while continuing excavation along the Church Street side of the World Trade Center site was being performed.

Image gallery

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  Name tablet mosaic

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  Monogram mosaic

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  Poster announcing opening of the southbound platform

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  Plaque on the Dey Street Underpass

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  Dey Street Passageway entrance

External links

External video
Ten Years Later: MTA Reflects on 9/11, Metropolitan Transportation Authority; September 7, 2011; 4:21 YouTube video clip

• nycsubway.org—BMT Broadway Subway: Cortlandt Street – World Trade Center
• Station Reporter — N Train
• Station Reporter — R Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Cortlandt Street (BMT Broadway Line)
• Dey Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Cortlandt Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Trinity Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View
• Elevator from Google Maps Street View