page_title: 34th Street–Herald Square station
section_title: IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms
hierarchical_section_title: 34th Street–Herald Square station / IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of "Yab-Yum", a steel propeller-like sculpture hanging above the northbound local tracks of the 34th Street-Herald Square IND station.
context_page_description: 34th Street–Herald Square is an underground station complex on the BMT Broadway Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, and is the third-busiest station in the system with 39,672,507 passengers entering the station in 2017. It is located at Herald Square in Midtown Manhattan where 34th Street, Broadway and Sixth Avenue intersect, and is served by the:
  D, F, N, and Q trains at all times
  R train at all times except late nights
  B, M, and W trains on weekdays
  <F> train during rush hours in the peak direction
context_section_description: 34th Street–Herald Square on the IND Sixth Avenue Line is an express station that has four tracks and two island platforms. The mezzanine elevators are at the north end of the station while the staircases to the Manhattan Mall entrance are at the south end. The platforms have numerous stairs and escalators leading to the main mezzanine. Stairs on both platforms lead to a non-accessible ramp leading to the mezzanine.
  The platforms are not equal in length, as the northbound one is longer than the southbound one. North of this station are numerous crossovers and switches that allow trains from uptown to terminate here on the express tracks during construction and closures. The crossovers were reconfigured to reduce the duplication of track switches of the downtown and uptown tracks, most notably, the switch from the express to local tracks.
  During construction on the IND portion of this station, contractors had to counter problems in their path. For one, the BMT and PATH platforms existed decades before this portion of the station was completed. Constructors had to dig deeper in order to pass the original platforms without interference, as well as avoiding wires and pipes.
  Prior to the opening of the Chrystie Street Connection in November 1967, the express tracks only extended to bumper blocks about 140 feet (43 m) south of this station, though the tunnels extended for another 260 feet (79 m) beyond that.
  Above the northbound local tracks is Yab-Yum, a series of red propeller-like sculptures, designed to spin in the wind of the approaching trains below.
caption: "Yab-Yum" sculpture
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