Chambers St — Local services in New York

Chambers Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line is located at the intersection of Centre and Chambers Streets beneath the Manhattan Municipal Building. The station has four tracks, three island platforms, and one side platform (originally two).

The southbound platform is slightly higher at the southern end of the station because the next stop south, Fulton Street, is bi-level with the southbound platform being above the northern one. The two "express" tracks, currently unused in regular revenue service, merge into a single tail track south of the station. The tail track is 620 feet (190 m) long from the switch points to the bumper block, where an emergency exit is available. The tail track south of the station was the site of an M train crash on November 6, 2007.

North of this station, there are two stub tracks, which end behind the now-closed Queens-bound side platform. These tracks were formerly connected to the Manhattan Bridge, until they were disconnected in 1967 as part of the Chrystie Street Connection, with the BMT Broadway Line being connected to the bridge instead. Also north of this station, the former southbound express track (now the northbound track) splits into two tracks just south of Canal Street: the former northbound local track, and the former southbound express track (the current northbound track).

The tile work on this station includes a depiction of the nearby Brooklyn Bridge that has a subtle mistake: it features the parallel up-down cables between the main cable and the roadway (as seen alone on most suspension bridges) but misses the second set of diagonal cables that radiate from the bridge to the roadway (as seen on...

I'm usually not a fan of Manhattan Subway stations but I personally love this one. Chambers St. station on the (J) and (Z) line has to be one of the most immersive Subway stations in NYC. The aroma in the station while waiting for your train to arrive is wonderful. It really catches the experience you're having in NYC. I recommend tourists to visit this station because it's an experience no one will ever forget.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention about the middle platform in this station. Lots of people think it's abandoned but it's not! If you come at the perfect time; and when I mean perfect time, I mean it. Come when the stars all align while experiencing the solar eclipse. The middle platform becomes a stage and a Bluegrass festival appears. Lots of people show up to this event and food is served on the house! Definitely an event...

My favorite subway station. Because of the high population of NYC, the subway system is amazing, and amazingly hard to maintain. This station is a great example. There are abandoned platforms from whenever the R train stopped here, which would be fine if they were covered or cleaned or something. However, they’re not, so you can take a look at these dust covered platforms and imagine you’re in the 1940s when these stations are crowded, or in the 1970s when the trains are about as decrepit and people are robbing others on the subway with sawnoff shotguns. The platforms in use are also stained, and at times, it reeks of piss, and you can watch the rats...