Dyckman Street station (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

New York City mayor John Francis Hylan's original plans for the Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in 1922, included building over {{convert|100|mi}} of new lines and taking over nearly {{convert|100|mi}} of existing lines. The lines were designed to compete with the existing underground, surface, and elevated lines operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and BMT.{{cite news |date=August 4, 1923 |title=Two Subway Routes Adopted by City |page=9 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/08/04/archives/two-subway-routes-adopted-by-city-estimate-board-accepts-wash.html |access-date=August 1, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news |date=March 12, 1924 |title=Plans Now Ready to Start Subways |page=1 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1924/03/12/archives/plans-now-ready-to-start-subways-commission-notifies-city-it-can.html |access-date=August 1, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}} On December 9, 1924, the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) gave preliminary approval for the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line.{{cite news |date=December 10, 1924 |title=Hylan Subway Plan Links Four Boroughs at $450,000,000 Cost |page=1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/10/archives/hylan-subway-plan-links-four-boroughs-at-450000000-cost-manhattan.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614021251/https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/10/archives/hylan-subway-plan-links-four-boroughs-at-450000000-cost-manhattan.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}} This line consisted of a corridor connecting Inwood, Manhattan, to Downtown Brooklyn, running largely under Eighth Avenue but also paralleling Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Lower Manhattan.{{Cite Routes Not Taken}} The BOT announced a list of stations on the new line in February 1928, with a station at Thayer Street (one block southwest of Dyckman Street).{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1113431477}} |title=Express and Local Stations For New Eighth Avenue Line |date=5 Feb 1928 |page=B1 |work=New York Herald Tribune|issn=1941-0646}}

The finishes at the five stations between 175th and 207th Street, including the Dyckman Street station, were 18 percent completed by May 1930.{{Cite news |date=1930-05-26 |title=Progress is Rapid on 8th Av. Subway; Board's Engineers Report Spurt in Building Is Likely to Open the Line in July, 1930 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/05/26/archives/progress-is-rapid-on-8th-av-subway-boards-engineers-report-spurt-in.html |access-date=2023-04-29 |issn=0362-4331}} By that August, the BOT reported that the Eighth Avenue Line was nearly completed and that the stations from 116th to 207th Street were 99.9 percent completed.{{Cite news |date=1930-08-24 |title=Eighth Av. Subway Nearly Completed; Basic Construction Work From Chambers to 207th St. Done Except on Few Short Stretches |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/08/24/archives/eighth-av-subway-nearly-completed-basic-construction-work-from.html |access-date=2023-03-15 |issn=0362-4331}} The entire line was completed by September 1931, except for the installation of turnstiles.{{cite news |last=O'Brien |first=John C. |date=9 Sep 1931 |title=8th Ave. Line Being Rushed For Use Jan. 1: Turnstile Installation on Subway Begins Monday; Other Equipment Ready for Start of Train Service City Has Yet to Find Operating Company Transit Official on Trip, 207th to Canal Street, Inspects Finished Tube |page=1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1331181357}}}} A preview event for the new subway was hosted on September 8, 1932, two days before the official opening.{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1932 |title=Sightseers Invade New Subway When Barricade Is lifted |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/09/09/archives/sightseers-invade-new-subway-when-barricade-is-lifted.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701191612/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/09/09/archives/sightseers-invade-new-subway-when-barricade-is-lifted.html |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news |date=September 9, 1932 |title=8th Av. Subway Gets First 5c. by Woman's Error: She Peers Into a Station, Hears Train, Pays for Ride, but Is Day Too Early Preparing for Tomorrow's Rush on 8th Ave. Subway |page=1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |id={{ProQuest|1125436641}}}} The Dyckman Street station opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the city-operated IND's initial segment, the Eighth Avenue Line between Chambers Street and 207th Street.{{cite news |last1=Crowell |first1=Paul |date=September 10, 1932 |title=Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped |work=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/09/10/100849529.pdf |access-date=November 8, 2015}}{{cite news |last=Sebring |first=Lewis B. |date=10 Sep 1932 |title=Midnight Jam Opens City's New Subway: Turnstiles Click Into Action at 12:01 A. M. as Throngs Battle for Places in 'First' Trains Boy, 7, Leads Rush At 42d St. Station City at Last Hails 8th Ave. Line After 7-Year Wait; Cars Bigger, Clean Transit Commissioner Officially Opening New Subway at Midnight |page=1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114839882}}}} Construction of the whole line cost $191.2 million. Service at this station was provided with express service from its onset.

Dyckman Street was formerly named Dyckman Street–200th Street despite Manhattan never having a street numbered 200th.{{cite web|url=http://forgotten-ny.com/2016/02/200th-street-manhattan-bronx/|title=200th Street, Manhattan-Bronx|publisher=Forgotten New York|date=February 10, 2016|access-date=June 19, 2017|quote="Presently, Manhattan numbered streets skip from West 196th to West 201st, and both of those streets go for one block or less. Manhattan has never had a 200th Street."}}

The station was planned to be rehabilitated as part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program.{{cite report|url=http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/pdf/AC_LineReview.pdf|title=Review of the A and C Lines|date=December 11, 2015|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=January 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203061138/http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/pdf/AC_LineReview.pdf|archive-date=February 3, 2020}}

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There are four tracks and two side platforms, much like a typical local station in the subway system. The two outer tracks lead to the 207th Street terminal station while the two center tracks lead to the 207th Street Yard. The two center tracks merge with the two outer tracks south of this station and there are diamond crossovers between all four tracks to the north. They can be used for train storage, reroutes, or emergencies. During the morning rush hour, some northbound A trains terminate here before being taken out of service to the yard by switching to the center tracks north of this station.{{NYCS const|trackref|trackbook3}}{{NYCS const|timetable|a}}

Both platform walls have no trim line, but there are mosaic name tablets reading "DYCKMAN–200TH ST." in white sans-serif lettering on a maroon background and black border. Small "200" tile captions in white numbering on a black background run along the walls between the name tablets. Yellow I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering, reading "Dyckman Street".{{Cite web|url=http://subwaynut.com/ind/dyckmana/dyckmana40.jpg|title=A name tablet|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=March 7, 2013|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=March 21, 2018}} A few column signs still read "200".{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?101805|title=(One of?) the last 200 St. signs at Dyckman Street (Line A)- most have been removed.|last=Barnes|first=John|date=June 15, 2009|website=nycsubway.org|access-date=March 21, 2018}} There is an underpass connecting the platforms.{{Cite web|url=http://subwaynut.com/ind/dyckmana/dyckmana11.jpg|title=The underpass that has seen better days|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=August 15, 2008|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=March 21, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://subwaynut.com/ind/dyckmana/dyckmana42.jpg|title=The underpass and High Exit turnstiles from the uptown platform|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=March 7, 2013|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=March 21, 2018}}

Each platform has one same-level fare control area and there is a crossunder inside fare control. The southbound platform has the full-time turnstile bank and token booth. There are three street stairs here, two of which are built inside buildings and go up to the northwest corner of Broadway and Dyckman Street. The other stair goes up to the southwest corner of Broadway and Riverside Drive on the northern end of Fort Tryon Park.{{cite web|title=MTA Neighborhood Maps: Inwood|url=http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhoods/mn/M22_inwood_2015.pdf|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=July 29, 2016|date=2015}}

Since Inwood–207th Street is the next and last stop on the line, this station's fare control on the northbound platform is exit only, containing just full height turnstiles and four staircases, two of which go up to the northeast corner of Broadway and Dyckman Street and the other two to the southeast corner.{{Cite web|url=http://subwaynut.com/ind/dyckmana/dyckmana8.jpg|title=The Exit Only No Entry Staircase also has a chain and closed sign during the transit strike to try and prevent passengers from going down|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=December 21, 2005|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=March 21, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://subwaynut.com/ind/dyckmana/dyckmana18.jpg|title=The two exit only streetstairs (with red square Ms and normal globes) from the uptown platform|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=August 15, 2008|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=March 21, 2018}}

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• Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
• Fort Tryon Park
• Inwood Hill Park

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• {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?7:128|IND 8th Avenue|Dyckman Street/200th Street}}
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20150113023917/http://www.stationreporter.net/arock.htm A Rockaway]
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030103057/http://www.stationreporter.net/aleff.htm A Lefferts]
• The Subway Nut — [http://subwaynut.com/ind/dyckmana/ Dyckman Street (A)]
• [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.587666,76.552734&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FW2XbwIdQg2Y-w&split=0&hq=&hnear=&ll=40.865546,-73.927313&spn=0.003846,0.013433&z=17&lci=transit&layer=c&cbll=40.865744,-73.927489&panoid=8oQw-KAGk98_visdiKZ54A&cbp=12,65.34,,1,-1 Storefront entrance to Dyckman Street from Google Maps Street View]
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