While the majority of New York City’s subway entrances have the same mundane look, there are others that still have details from an earlier era.
Some entrances contain flourishes from the buildings in which they are situated, others stand alone.
Today, we’ve rounded up some unique subway entrances in New York City.
The Fulton Street Station at Broadway and Fulton
This entrance part of 195 Broadway, the prior headquarters of American Telephone and Telegraph and Western Union. The building has the claim to fame of being on the receiving end of the first transatlantic phone call. It’s now home to Thompson Reuters and other tenants. Architect William W. Bosworth, who also designed Kykuit, the Gilded Age Rockefeller estate, designed this portion of the building on the Fulton Street side. The station itself, which includes this entrance, is a registered New York City landmark.
Trinity Building
The richly Gothic-decorated interior of the Trinity Building at 111 Broadway is also present on the exterior, including this fancy original subway entrance. Appropriately (or inappropriately) enough, it also now houses a Subway fast food joint.
Astor Place
This entrance is actually a reproduction of an IRT subway entrance that was installed in the 1986 renovation. Inside there is also a public bathroom converted into a newsstand.
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