Chambers Street - World Trade Center Subway Station

Chambers Street - World Trade Center Subway Station is a subway station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located on Church Street between Chambers and Vesey Streets in Lower Manhattan and is served by the A and E trains (all times), and by the C train (all times except late nights).

In an unusual layout, the station has separate island platforms for express and local trains. The local platform forms the terminus of the local service and is offset to the south of the express platform, at the northern edge of the World Trade Center site, under 5 World Trade Center. Southbound local trains reach the platform by passing underneath the express tracks south of Canal Street station. There is a passenger connection at mezzanine level, also allowing a free transfer to the Park Place station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

Both island platforms can accommodate 600-foot trains. The northern end has a signal tower and switches that are roughly at the middle of the A and C platforms. Just north of the station is a third track between the uptown and downtown express tracks, with connecting switches at both ends, which was used to relay trains when Chambers Street was used as a terminal, before the Broadway–Nassau Street station opened on February 11, 1933.

The station has been portrayed in a variety of ways on subway maps since 1932. Originally, it was shown as a single station called Chambers Street–Hudson Terminal. Starting in about 1948, two stations were shown, Chambers Street–Hudson Terminal for the express trains continuing to Brooklyn, and Hudson Terminal for the local trains terminating at the station. A 1959 map showed two stations enclosed in a box, but a single label. The 1964 and 1966 maps were similar.

On the 1972 map, it once again appears to be a single station, with the label showing Chambers Street, Hudson Terminal, World Trade Center, and PATH, although the Hudson Terminal office building complex had already been demolished by this time.

Wall tiles reading "H AND M" remained on the walls of the former Hudson Terminal/current World Trade Center station as late as December 1974[2], a year after the World Trade Center was completed. The tiles were initially painted over, and have since been removed during the station's renovation; as of 2007, the station walls are currently blank.

On the current map published by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, it is shown as two separate stations with a free transfer — Chambers Street (served by A and C trains) and World Trade Center (served by E trains).

At the extreme southern end of the complex is the wheelchair accessible exit via the PATH station, along with a few High Entrance-Exit Turnstiles (HEETs). Only the local platform is ADA-compliant. The doors and ramp, and structure from the World Trade Center leading into the station survived the September 11, 2001 attacks. The station itself was not damaged, but was covered by dust. [an error occurred while processing this directive]

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