28 Street
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Northbound 1 train departs
Station statistics
Address	West 28th Street & Seventh Avenue New York, New York
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Chelsea, Flower District, Midtown[1]
Coordinates	40°44′49″N 73°59′35″W / 40.747°N 73.993°W / 40.747; -73.993
Division	A (IRT)[2]
Line	IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
Services	1  (all times) ​   2  (late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus: M7, M20
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1918; 106 years ago (1918-07-01)
Opposite- direction transfer	No
Traffic
2023	4,380,514[3]  20.8%
Rank	62 out of 423[3]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station 34th Street–Penn Station 1  ​2  toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street Local 23rd Street 1  ​2  toward South Ferry does not stop here
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to 34th Street–Penn Station to 23rd Street
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends
West 28th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.	05000235[4]
Added to NRHP	March 30, 2005

The 28th Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times and by the 2 train during late nights.

The station was built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the Dual Contracts with New York City, and opened on July 1, 1918. The station had its platforms extended in the 1960s.

The Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction, rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The contracts were "dual" in that they were signed between the City and two separate private companies, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), all working together to make the construction of the Dual Contracts possible. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan.^[5][6][7]

The construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of the Lexington Avenue Line, would change the operations of the IRT system. Instead of having trains go via Broadway, turning onto 42nd Street, before finally turning onto Park Avenue, there would be two trunk lines connected by the 42nd Street Shuttle. The system would be changed from looking like a "Z" system on a map to an "H" system. One trunk would run via the new Lexington Avenue Line down Park Avenue, and the other trunk would run via the new Seventh Avenue Line up Broadway. In order for the line to continue down Varick Street and West Broadway, these streets needed to be widened, and two new streets were built, the Seventh Avenue Extension and the Varick Street Extension.^[8] It was predicted that the subway extension would lead to the growth of the Lower West Side, and to neighborhoods such as Chelsea and Greenwich Village.^[9][10]

28th Street opened as part of an extension of the line from 34th Street–Penn Station to South Ferry on July 1, 1918.^[11][12] Initially, the station was served by a shuttle running from Times Square to South Ferry.^[11][13] The new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square.^[14] An immediate result of the switch was the need to transfer using the 42nd Street Shuttle in order to retrace the original layout. The completion of the "H" system doubled the capacity of the IRT system.^[9]

The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.^[15][16] On August 9, 1964, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced the letting of a $7.6 million contract to lengthen platforms at stations on the Broadway—Seventh Avenue Line from Rector Street to 34th Street–Penn Station, including 28th Street, and stations from Central Park North–110th Street to 145th Street on the Lenox Avenue Line to allow express trains to be lengthened from nine-car trains to ten-car trains, and to lengthen locals from eight-car trains to ten-car trains. With the completion of this project, the NYCTA project to lengthen IRT stations to accommodate ten-car trains would be complete.^[17]

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 2005.^[4] The southbound platform's Customer Assistance Booth was removed in 2010.

A small bar called La Noxe is next to one of the street staircases from the northbound platform.^[18][19] The bar first opened in October 2020, shuttered for three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, and reopened in February 2021.^[18][20]

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound local	← toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (34th Street–Penn Station) ← toward Wakefield–241st Street late nights (34th Street–Penn Station)
	Northbound express	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward South Ferry (23rd Street) → → toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College late nights (23rd Street) →
	Side platform

This underground station has four tracks and two side platforms. The station is served by the 1 at all times^[21] and by the 2 during late nights;^[22] the center express tracks are used by the 2 and 3 trains during daytime hours.^[22][23] It is between 34th Street–Penn Station to the north and 23rd Street to the south.^[24]

Both platforms have their original mosaic trim line, name tablets, and directional signs. Vent chambers are present and there is a closed newsstand on the northbound platform as evidenced by sealed windows on the walls. Slate blue I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.

All fare control areas are on platform level and there are no crossovers or crossunders. The main ones are at the centers of the platforms, at 28th Street. On the Bronx-bound platform, a turnstile bank leads to a mezzanine with a token booth and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue. On the southbound platform, a turnstile bank leads to an unstaffed mezzanine. Two staircases go up to either western corners of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue.^[1]

Both platforms have an exit-only at their extreme south ends, at 27th Street. A single exit-only turnstile from each platform leads to one staircase each going up to either northern corner of Seventh Avenue and 27th Street. The northwest-corner exit, from the southbound platform, is outside Fashion Institute of Technology. The northeast-corner exit is from the northbound platform.^[1]

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