Rector Street (BMT Broadway Line)

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

Rector Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
300px Station platforms and tracks
Station statistics
Address	Rector Street & Trinity Place New York, NY 10006
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Financial District
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
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 5, 1918 (January 5, 1918)
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,116,833  26.7%
Rank	351 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	Cortlandt Street: N  R
Next south	Whitehall Street – South Ferry: N  R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only

Rector Street is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the corner of Rector Street and Trinity Place in Financial District, Lower Manhattan, the station 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
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (Cortlandt Street) ← toward Ditmars Boulevard late nights (Cortlandt Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (Whitehall Street) → → toward Coney Island late nights (Whitehall Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

File:Rector Street BMT 003.JPG

Uptown R train of R46 cars arriving

Since the station is on a grade, there is a noticeable slant. The station has two side platforms, downtown and uptown, which are not connected. This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The overhaul changed the station's structure and the overall appearance, replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 1970s-style wall tiles, signs and fluorescent lights. It also modernized staircases and platform edges. The blue tiles, which are not standard in BMT stations, provide the backdrop to the lettering, similar to Prospect Avenue station in Brooklyn.

The uptown platform maintains one old style sign while at the north end of the downtown/Brooklyn platform is an entire closed off portion of a defunct platform. There are several (painted over) old style Rector Street mosaic signs on this platform.

Image gallery

• Rector Street BMT 006.JPG

  Remaining part of the original tiles and mosaics on the uptown platform

• Rector Street BMT 004.JPG

  Mosaic

• Rector street.jpeg

  Slant of the platform, this station being on a grade

• Rector Street BMT 008.JPG

  Part of the platform on the southern side that is walled off

• Rector Street (Bway) - Stairs.jpg

  Entrance at Rector Street & Trinity Place

• Rector Street station showing grade.JPG

  Station slope

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Broadway Line: Rector Street
• Station Reporter — N Train
• Station Reporter — R Train
• Rector Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• entrance near Brooklyn Battery Tunnel from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View