191st Street (IRT West Side Line)
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191st Street Station · Opened 1/14/1911Local station with two tracks and two side platforms.
This station is the deepest below the street level at 180 feet down.
191st Street Station was built a few years after this section of the
line opened, so its design is a bit newer and it is smaller in scale
than the other stations in the deep tunnel. There are a couple of original
mosaic name tablets near the platform ends. Other mosaic name tablets and a
mosaic tile border along the walls and around the column tops were added around 2003. These are similar in design to other mosaics found around the system.
On the southbound platform there is a room formed by
corrugated metal labeled "trash room", but formerly was, believe it or
not, an astronomical observatory of sorts. The instruments once in
this shed were an experiment by New York University to capture cosmic
rays from the stars. Cosmic rays are the nuclei of metal elements,
the very atoms without the electrons, expelled at nearly light speed
from certain kinds of star. Their mass and speed give them very high
energy, enough to penetrate all the solid rock above the platform.
The idea of building this special observatory here was to prevent the
terrestrial radiation from interfering with the collection of the
cosmic rays. The rock blocks most of the terrestrial signals which
come from the street, letting the extra strong rays from the stars to
pass through without contamination.
There are crossovers similar to those in the other
deep-tunnel stations but here they are walled in, so you cannot see
the trains. (It is unknown whether the walls are original or later
addition.)
The elevators here are outside the fare control. Looking
through a peephole, evidence was seen of a passageway to old style
elevators similar to those at 181st Street.
Artwork: Primavera, Raul Colon
(image 86140) (248k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Platform view.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Column tile.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Mosaic station name tile.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 8/3/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1900
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 8/3/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Filip Matuska
Date: 6/10/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Filip Matuska
Date: 6/10/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Filip Matuska
Date: 6/10/2007
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/29/2005
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 3/12/2000
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 191st Street
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 3/12/2000
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