Eighth Street–New York University station
The New York Public Service Commission adopted plans for what was known as the Broadway–Lexington Avenue route on December 31, 1907.[6] A short portion of the line, coming off the north side of the Manhattan Bridge through Canal Street to 14th Street–Union Square, opened on September 4, 1917, at 2 P.M., with an eight car train carrying members of the Public Service Commission, representatives of the city government and officials of the BRT, leaving Union Square toward Coney Island.Service opened to the general public at 8 P.M., with trains leaving Union Square and Coney Island simultaneously.In 2001, the station received a state of repairs including upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.In 2005, the artwork Tim Snell's Broadway Diary mosaics installed on the station platform wall titles in both directions.
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