East Broadway

East Broadway is a local subway station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line, the last station in Manhattan for Brooklyn-bound F trains. This station is served by the F train.

This station opened on January 1, 1936 as an extension of the IND Sixth Avenue Line. This station has two tracks and one island platform. The tile band is lavender blue with a black border and two tiles high. Wall tiles have "E BWAY" small white lettering in a black background. Most of the original mezzanine is still open with some walled off areas and the fare controls are separated by a long corridor.

Originally in the 1930s, the city-owned IND planned for a mass expansion, one being the IND Second System. A station called Essex Street was to be built above East Broadway on the line. However, because of the Great Depression and World War II, these plans were scrapped. Today, evidence of the shell can be seen in the station platform with high elevation in the ceiling supported by heavier concrete beams at the middle. Also, there are walled off portions in the mezzanine area that houses an intermediate mezzanine to the station and other portions that house the shell itself.

MTA Arts for Transit
 * Displacing Details, three panels by Noel Copeland in collaboration with students, 1992