Astor Place

Architect: Christopher Grant LaFarge
Style: Beaux-Arts
City: Manhattan, NY

The Astor Place station (signed as Astor Place-Cooper Union) is a local stop on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at Fourth Avenue, Cooper Square, and Astor Place. Built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company as part of the city's first subway line, it opened October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations.

the building

Tile and mosaic decoration. The station was built with tile and mosaic decorations, and its two side platforms serve four tracks, with express trains using the inner two to bypass the stop.

the style

The station was designed in the Beaux-Arts idiom typical of the original IRT subway stations, with tile and mosaic ornament in place of a grand exterior facade.

the architect

Christopher Grant LaFarge designed the station as part of the original 1904 IRT subway line.

significance

The original station interior is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its platforms were lengthened in the late 1950s and the station was renovated in the mid-1980s.

nearby

The Public Theater building 310 ft · Romanesque Revival · 1849
Colonnade Row 320 ft · Greek Revival
Metropolitan Savings Bank 0.1 mi · Second Empire · 1867
St. George's Church 0.1 mi · Byzantine · 1905
DeVinne Press Building 0.1 mi · Romanesque Revival · 1886
Merchant's House Museum 0.1 mi · Federal

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