New York City subway stations that are step-free

Step-free in the New York City Subway is rarely a matter of the whole station: it is one elevator on one specific corner, sometimes two elevators serving opposite directions, sometimes a ramp that only reaches the downtown platform. What follows is the exact street location of the accessible way in at each station, drawn from the MTA's own elevator listings, along with the transfers that stay step-free and the ones that quietly do not. Where a station shares a name with another across town, or where the lift lands you on the wrong side of the tracks, that is said before you leave the house.

Places in this collection

  • Franklin Av — Elevator on the southwest corner of Fulton St and Franklin Ave. The MTA notes that the shuttle serves this station in place of the regular…
  • Flushing Av — Elevator on the southwest corner of Flushing Ave and Broadway, up to the elevated BMT Jamaica Line platforms. Bus connections are the B15,…
  • Euclid Av — Elevator on the northeast corner of Euclid Ave and Pitkin Ave, serving the IND Fulton Street Line platforms. Worth knowing before you set o…
  • DeKalb Av — Elevator on the southeast corner of DeKalb Ave and Flatbush Ave, down to the BMT Fourth Avenue Line platforms served by the B, Q and R. The…
  • Coney Island/Stillwell Av — Two street ramps: the main entrance on Mermaid Ave east of Stillwell Ave, and one at the northeast corner of Stillwell Ave and Surf Ave. Mo…
  • Borough Hall — Two separate street elevators for two separate services: one in front of the Supreme Court Building at Court St, the other in front of Broo…
  • Bedford Av — One elevator, on the northeast corner of Bedford Ave and North 7th St, serving the L platform. The B62 is the only bus connection at the co…
  • Avenue H — Ramps rather than elevators, and they are on opposite blocks: the Coney Island-bound ramp is at East 15th St and Avenue H, the Manhattan-bo…
  • WTC Cortlandt — Elevator on the southwest corner of Greenwich St and Vesey St, one level down to the 1 platform. The station first opened on 1 July 1918 as…
  • World Trade Center — Elevator on the southwest corner of Church St and Vesey St, taken to mezzanine level for the passageway to the platform. The platform can a…
  • Spring St — Step-free to the downtown platform only: the elevator is on the south side of Spring St at 6 Av, next to Spring St Park. There is no access…
  • South Ferry — Elevator on the southeast corner of State St and Whitehall St, down three levels to the 1 train terminus. The current station opened on 16…
  • Roosevelt Island — Elevators are inside the station house on West Rd, which is the only step-free way down to the F platform on the island. Above ground the Q…
  • Fulton St — Two street elevators, on the southwest and northeast corners of Dey St and Broadway, the same pair that serve the WTC concourse passageway.…
  • Dyckman St — The elevators sit inside the station house on the southwest corner of Hillside Ave and St Nicholas Ave at Ft George Hill, so the way in is…
  • Chambers St — Elevator on the northwest corner of Hudson St and Chambers St. Note that the MTA lists two accessible Chambers St stations: this one, and a…
  • Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall — The elevator stands in City Hall Park, east of City Hall near Chambers St and Centre St, rather than on the Centre St kerb. From the platfo…
  • Broadway-Lafayette St — Shares its street elevator with Bleecker St: north side of Houston St between Lafayette St and Crosby St. The connection through to the 6 p…
  • Bowling Green — One street elevator, on the northeast corner of Broadway and Battery Pl, down to a platform one level below street. The station has been op…
  • Bleecker St — The street elevator is on the north side of Houston St between Lafayette St and Crosby St, not on Bleecker St itself, which is where the na…

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