Dyckman Street is the first outdoor station on the 1 train after it leaves it's tunnel through Ft. George Hill and Washington Heights. The stop the is interesting being built directly into the hillside of Fort George Hill. The tunnel portal is the southern end of the platform and most of the station is built on an embankment that has leveled the side of the hillside. The large station house is directly under the platforms and is at street level with some steps and now an ADA compliant ramp leading up to it from different levels at street level because of the steep hill. This entrance is along the southern side of Dyckman street on a very short block bounded by Fort George Hill to the east and Hillside Avenue to the east.
A single staircase leads up from this station house where the turnstiles are to each of the two side platforms for the two-track line. This is towards the northern end of the platforms, the only small portion of it than is windscreened and canopied, the rest of the station for the downtown platform is simply a low 1906 era fence, on the uptown platform it is built into the Hillside and before the platform was destroyed during renovations between 2010 and 2012 this was a concrete wall with a few dilapidated name tablets. The reconstruction of the station, starting with the Uptown platform between 2011 and 2012, and the downtown platform second by the end of 2014 resulted in an elevator being installed up to the Downtown platform only (the Uptown side of the station is not accessible) after a lawsuit during the renovations with the installation of the uptown platform found 'too complicated' due to the geology in the station area. As of December 2020, a contract has been awarded for a northbound elevator that will make the station fully ADA accessible.
Photos 1-5: November 9, 2003; 6-7: January 30, 2004; 8-11: August 9, 2005; 12-13: December 22, 2005; 14-20: March 21, 2004; 21-41: December 31, 2010; 42-46: September 14, 2012; 47-60: March 9, 2013; 61: November 18, 2013; 62-87: March 7, 2014
Arts For Transit at Dyckman Street
Flight, 1991,
Expanded during renovations Birds in Flight - Moon View, 2013
Ceramic Tile and glass mosaic in Station House
By Wopo Holup
R33-ML #9017 poses at Dyckman Street for a photo stop on a fan trip
R33-ML #9017 at Dyckman Street on a fan trip with a R62A 1 train entering in the background
R33-ML #9017 gets ready to leave Dyckman Street on a runby with R62A #2425 a southbound 1 train leaving the station
R12 #5760 leaves Dyckman Street on a Fan Trip with all the railfans photographing it
A very vadalized name tablet at Dyckman Street, the station is built into a hillside with the tunnel portal just south of the station so the back of the uptown platform has a few name tablets
A Downtown R62A 9 train bound for South Ferry leaves Dyckman Street after bypassing it (due to skip-stop service) and enters the deep tunnel through Ft. George Hill
The station house at street level underneath the platforms at Dyckman Street has a small Art's For Transit Instalation of birds entitled 'Flight, 1991' by Wopo Holup
A R62A 1 begins to poke its front out of its tunnel to enter Dyckman Street
A northbound R62A 1 train continues to enter Dyckman Street
62A #2211 leads a South Ferry-bound 1 approaching Dyckman Street
Looking across to the Dyckman Street station built into Ft George Hill which is closed like all other subway stations during the Transit Strike of 2005
Just a little yellow tape closes off the station house at Dyckman Street during the Transit Strike of 2005
An uptown R62 1 train makes its way north out of Dyckman Street, the four car green train viewable way off in the distance is the Low-V train on a fan trip
The train of Low-Vs running southbound approaches Dyckman Street to pick up passengers who were taking photos on a runby further up the line
The train of Low-Vs continues to enter Dyckman Street.
The Low-Vs full of railfans continue to curve into Dyckman Street.
The Low-Vs stop briefly at Dyckman Street running downtown to pick up railfans.
Looking out of the Low-Vs at Dyckman Street, the last stop of a fan trip at a dark Dyckman Street, leaves have fallen on the uptown platform on a fall day.
Railfans disembark from the Low-Vs at Dyckman Street at the end of a fan trip.
Last Updated: 1 January, 2011
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