Fulton St — Local services in New York

Fulton Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line with two tracks and two side platforms.

This station opened on January 16, 1905 as part of a one-stop extension southbound from Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall. Only the northbound platform was in use when service started at this station. The southbound platform opened for service on June 12, 1905, when the subway was extended one stop to the south at Wall Street. This marked the first time that the subway had been extended further downtown and towards Brooklyn; the previous terminus, Brooklyn Bridge, was also the original subway's southern end.

Originally, only the southbound platform was ADA-accessible. In October 2012, a new entrance on Dey Street opened for the Dey Street underpass to Cortlandt Street, and an ADA-accessible elevator was installed for the southbound platform. In November 2014, the northbound platform became accessible through an elevator to the underpass that connected to the southbound platform.

Because the local tracks loop at the abandoned City Hall station to the north, Fulton Street has only two tracks and two side platforms. The station, which is now a registered New York City Landmark, features a mosaic of the steamboat built by Robert Fulton. The southbound platform incorporates an ornate entrance to the building at 195 Broadway, which features fluted columns, engraved metal signs, ornate railings, and blacked out...

The Fulton Street train station is amazing to walk through. The staff that work there are nice and helpful. And the train station always smells like delicious foods. But one thing that needs to change is the cops doing random search on unsuspecting people that they unfairly single out at the turnstiles. I was going home to the Bronx from a school that I attended in manhattan at the Fulton Street train station. I was about to get my metro card so I could pay and cross the turnstile when an officer came out of nowhere and told me that He needed to do a random search in my book bag. I was with my friend from class and we were around other people but the only person that was stopped and asked to do a random search was me. I think the reason why I was singled out was because of racial profiling. I have a purple book bag, I was wearing glasses, and the only thing that they found in my book bag was a math book and pencils. There was no need to stop me or try to intimidate me to do a random search. Here's a thought: Why don't the police working at the train station focus on the situations that are happening in real time instead of assuming and being paranoid about the people they're sworn to protect. They're starting to look like a paranoid, unhinged gang...

Very crowded during rush hour which is every hour sadly, but the design is unique and beautiful. Most times I'd say some tourist would get lost around here since it's big and just had different train numbers and letters just getting thrown at you while you have to figure it out, but for a New Yorker I'd say it's pretty easy to understand. This is one of the many stations that I find very pleasing to see as well travel through while transferring to...