Eighth Street Subway Station (N,R)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken /
 invisible, metro station, do not draw title

N (all times)
R (all except late nights)

Eighth Street – New York University is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, it is served by the N train at all times and the R train at all times except late nights. It is the closest stop on the Broadway Line to New York University.

Eighth Street – NYU opened on September 4, 1917 as part of the first section of the BMT Broadway Line from Canal Street to 14th Street – Union Square. It has four tracks and two side platforms.

In 2001, the station received a state of repairs including upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.
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Coordinates:   40°43'49"N   73°59'33"W
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