Chauncey Street station

Chauncey Street is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Chauncey Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction and by the J at all other times.

Chauncey Street  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Chauncey Street & Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick
Coordinates	40.682623°N 73.910136°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Jamaica Line
Services	J  (all except rush hours, peak direction) ​   Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B20, Q24
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened	July 18, 1885[1]
Station code	093[2]
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2019	1,076,510[3]  1.2%
Rank	349 out of 424[3]
Station succession
Next east	Broadway Junction: J  ​Z
Next west	Halsey Street: J  (Z  skips to Gates Avenue)
Location
Track layout to Bway Jct to Halsey St
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops all times Stops all times except late nights

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform
	Westbound local	← toward Broad Street (Halsey Street) ← AM rush toward Broad Street (Gates Avenue) ← AM rush does not stop here
	Peak-direction express	→ No regular service
	Eastbound local	→ toward Jamaica Center (Broadway Junction) → → PM rush toward Jamaica Center (Broadway Junction) → → PM rush does not stop here →
	Side platform
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
G	Street Level	Entrance/exit

There are two side platforms and three tracks; the center express track is not used in regular service.

The 2002 artwork here is called El-Views by Maria Dominguez and it features scenes of neighborhood life.

Exits

The station has exits on both the west (railroad north) end and the east (railroad south) end of its platforms. However, and despite the station's name, the eastern exits to Chauncey Street are no longer open.

On the west end, each platform has a single staircase leading to an elevated station house beneath the tracks. It has a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside fare control, two staircases lead to both western corners of Rockaway Avenue and Broadway.[4]

The eastern exits are now emergency exits leading to both the north and south sides of Broadway just west of Marion and Chauncey Streets. These exits were closed in the 1980s due to high crime.[5][6] There is a closed station house around the intermediate level of the staircases.

References

1. "A New Station Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 18 July 1885. p. 4.
2. "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
3. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
4. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Ocean Hill" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
5. Harshbarger, Rebecca; De La Hoz, Felipe (October 12, 2015). "Williamsburg, Bushwick subway entrances sealed despite ridership spike". AM New York. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
6. "Closed subway entrances". WNYC (AM). October 31, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2016.

External links

Media related to Chauncey Street (BMT Jamaica Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org – BMT Jamaica Line: Chauncey Street
• Station Reporter — J Train
• The Subway Nut — Chauncey Street Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Chauncey Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
• Cooper Street and Rockaway Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View