181st Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

181st Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

West 181st Street & Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10033

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Washington Heights, Hudson Heights

Coordinates

40°51′03″N 73°56′18″W / 40.850891°N 73.938289°WCoordinates: 40°51′03″N 73°56′18″W / 40.850891°N 73.938289°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

A (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M4, M98

GWB Bus Station

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Other entrances/
exits

Fort Washington Avenue & 181st St, Overlook Terrace & 184th St, east side of Fort Washington Avenue

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

3,628,174^[3]

Rank

144 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

190th Street: A

Next south

175th Street: A

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

Location
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181st Street Subway Station (IND)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

MPS

New York City Subway System MPS

NRHP Reference #

05000233^[4]

Added to NRHP

March 30, 2005

181st Street is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located on Fort Washington Avenue and 181st Street, one of the main shopping districts of the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights, and served by the A train at all times.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 190 St

to 175 St

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance (Elevator at Bennett Park exit. Note: Platforms are not accessible)
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending machines, tunnel to Overlook Terrace at north end
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Inwood – 207th Street (190th Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Lefferts Boulevard, Far Rockaway, or Rockaway Park (175th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

This underground station, opened on September 10, 1932,^[1]^[5] has two tracks and two side platforms and is deep below the surface due to the area's hills. In fact, the highest natural point on Manhattan Island is in Bennett Park, adjacent to the station exit on Fort Washington Avenue between West 183rd and 185th Streets (there is no West 184th Street there).

Because of the station's depth, escalators lead to 181st Street at the south end, and elevators at the north end of the station carry passengers to the Bennett Park exit. The elevators were formerly only open during the daytime, and required the payment of a fare to use.^[6] Since 1957, the elevators have been available for use by pedestrians going between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Avenue without paying a fare; a similar situation exists at 190th Street, the next station uptown,^[7] as well as at 191st Street, on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line.^[8]

Exits

Exit at Overlook Terrace and West 184th Street^[9]
Exit at Fort Washington Avenue across from Bennett Park, between West 183rd and 185th Streets^[9]
Exit at Fort Washington Avenue at 181st Street^[9]

Overlook Terrace entrance at West 184th Street

Fort Washington Avenue entrance between West 183rd and 185th Streets

Bus service

The station and the nearby George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal are served by ten local MTA Regional Bus Operations routes and various interstate bus routes.^[10]^[11]

Route	Operator	North/West Terminal	South/East Terminal	via	notes
Local Bus Routes
M4	New York City Bus	The Cloisters or Fort Tryon Park	Penn Station	Broadway and Fifth Avenue	Bus only runs to the Cloisters when the museum is open; it only runs to Fort Tryon Park at all other times.
M5	New York City Bus	Broadway at West 179th Street	South Ferry	Riverside Drive, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway
M98 LTD	New York City Bus	Fort Tryon Park	68th Street/Lexington Avenue	Harlem River Drive and Lexington Avenue	Bus only runs during rush hours.
M100	New York City Bus	West 220th Street/Broadway, Inwood	East 125th Street/First Avenue, East Harlem	Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues
Bx3	New York City Bus	238th Street station, Riverdale, Bronx	West 179th Street east of Broadway	University Avenue
Bx7	New York City Bus	West 263rd Street/Riverdale Avenue, Riverdale, Bronx	168th Street station	Broadway, Johnson Avenue, Henry Hudson Parkway
Bx11	New York City Bus	West 179th Street west of Broadway	Simpson Street station, Longwood, Bronx	170th Street
Bx13	New York City Bus	West 179th Street west of Broadway	Bronx Terminal Market (extended to Third Avenue/163rd Street, rush hours)	Ogden Avenue and Yankee Stadium
Bx35	New York City Bus	West 179th Street east of Broadway	Simpson Street station, Longwood, Bronx	167th & 169th Street's
Bx36	New York City Bus	West 179th Street west of Broadway	Olmstead Avenue/Seaward Avenue, Castle Hill, Bronx	174/180th Streets
Other bus routes
George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal routes	Various	George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal

In popular culture

The upper mezzanine's elevator bank

The station is mentioned in the title song of the Broadway musical In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda, where Usnavi says to take the A train "even farther than Harlem to Northern Manhattan and maintain, get off at 181st and take the escalator. I hope you're writing this down I'm gonna test ya later".^[12]
On September 13, 1980, aspiring pianist Eric Kaminsky was robbed and stabbed to death in the station. His murder became the basis for his mother's book The Victim's Song.^[13]

References

Notes

1 2 "List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line", The New York Times (September 10, 1932), p.6
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
↑ Crowell, Paul (September 10, 1932). "Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
↑ "FREE ELEVATORS IN SUBWAY FOUGHT". The New York Times. August 7, 1939. p. 13. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
↑ "2 IND ELEVATORS OPEN TO FREE USE". nytimes.com. The New York Times. September 6, 1957. p. 19. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
↑ Kurtz, Josh (1991-08-12). "Washington Heights Journal; A Subway Passageway Just for the Courageous". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
1 2 3 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Washington Heights" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
↑ "Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
↑ "Bronx Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
↑ "Lin-Manuel Miranda – In the Heights". Genius. 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
↑ Kaminsky, Alice. The Victim's Song. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1985. ISBN 0879752920.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 181st Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

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Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
181st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Overlook Terrace entrance from Google Maps Street View
Fort Washington Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platform from Google Maps Street View

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