page_title: Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station
section_title: IND Eighth Avenue Line platforms
hierarchical_section_title: Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station / IND Eighth Avenue Line platforms
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Bahnhöfe der Independent zeichneten sich ganz im Gegensatz zu denen der IRT durch ihre Schlichtheit aus. Die Wände waren durchgehend weiß gefliest mit einem farblich abgesetzten horizontalen Band auf Augenhöhe. Die Farbkombination zeigte an, zwischen welchen Express-Bahnhöfen man sich gerade befand. Dies sollte die Orientierung erleichtern.Darunter stand der Name des Bahnhofs in kurzen Abständen auf die Fliesen. In jüngster Zeit werden diese Farbschemata jedoch nicht mehr verwendet. Die weiße „42“ gibt es erst seit der Renovierung nach 2000. Auch die blaue Farbe ist nicht mehr ganz original. English: One of the key features of IND stations was — in contrast to the first IRT stations — their simplicity. The walls were tiled white all over but a horizontal color stripe. The color scheme was all the same between two express stations. That was intended to help passengers to find their bearings.The name of the station was tiled again and again directly below.During the last years the color schemes were somewhat given up. The white “42” comes from renovations that took place after 2000. The blue color is not so original, too.
context_page_description: Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal is a New York City Subway station complex located under Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. It is the busiest station complex in the system, serving 64,531,511 passengers in 2016.
  The complex allows free transfers between the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line, with a long transfer to the IND Eighth Avenue Line one block west at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal. The complex is served by the:
  1, 2, 3, 7, A, E, N, and Q trains at all times
  W train during weekdays
  C, R, and 42nd Street Shuttle trains at all times except late nights
  <7> trains during rush hours in the peak direction
context_section_description: 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line. It is partly underneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It has one operational platform level, two offset island platforms, and a long mezzanine. Formerly, it also had a lower level with a single side platform. The upper level, the only one serving trains, opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND)'s initial segment, the Eighth Avenue Line between Chambers Street and 207th Street. The lower level opened on August 25, 1952.
caption: Wall mosaics
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