DOES the Fulton Transit Center at Broadway and Fulton Street offer entrance to the greatest number of subway lines in the city? The BMT, IND and IRT are all represented, including the Broadway BMT, 7th Avenue IRT, Lexington Avenue IRT, 8th Avenue IND and Nassau Street BMT, with 12 different lettered trains, though the Z is a rush hour skip stop version of the J, while the W is a mini-N train that connects Whitehall Street with Ditmars Boulevard. Trains accessed here go all the way to Van Cortlandt Park, the Rockaway peninsula, and the northern end of the Bronx near Mount Vernon. Only the 6th Avenue and Queens Boulevard IND and, of course, the crosstown G, L and 7 don’t join the conclave.
This stanchion is also unique as it isn’t the more ornate IND station indicator station, but a cylindrical version only used here at the FTC. Every line that converges here is listed on the pole. The complex opened in 2014 in order to simplify the connections between five separate trunk lines, but simple geography dictated that the free transfers couldn’t really be simplified all that much and considerable stairway and corridor walking still has to be done to transfer between trunks. The green indicator at the apex means the entrance is always open.
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5/27/25