Canal Street (N,Q)/Manhattan Bridge

The Canal Street Broadway Line Lower Level via Bridge Station (formerly called the Broadway Station at Canal Street on Subway Maps) has two side platforms after curving from the Local tracks of the Broadway Line just north of the station. The platforms provide the transfer corridor between the three other connecting train lines at the station, underpinning all of them. The fact the platforms are the only connecting corridor meant the platforms were kept open during the 1990s when service on the south side of the Manhattan Bridge was suspended and all bridge service went up 6 Avenue with no trains needing to stop in this portion of the station. The platform's western (northern) end begins with the only entrance it can call it's own which is shared with the uptown Broadway Local Station. A single staircase leads up from each platform and meet in the middle forming a decent sized transfer corridor that leads to a large bank of turnstiles with a lower passage leading to the R and W trains. This bank of turnstiles is across from the bank for the R and W train platform and two street stairs lead out to the SE corner of Canal Street and Broadway and one to the NE.

Continuing down the platform we first reach the single staircase to the Downtown IRT 6 train, followed by the one for the uptown 6 train. These access corridors are identical. The staircase up from each platform meet on a narrow intermediate level before a single staircase continues up to the 6 platform between exits to either side of Canal Street (each corner of Canal St and Lafayette Street has its own fare control area).

The final transfer is from the JMZ, a staircase leads up from each platform to a narrow intermediate level where doors are visible that used to lead to the split of the passageway to provide access to the now abandoned Queens-bound platform, that was replaced by the rerouting of Queens-bound trains to the Manhattan-bound's unused secondary track, and then directly up to the current single open island platform.
Photo 1: August 13, 2008; 2 & 3: June 17, 2009; 4-16: July 30, 2009; 17-23: September 23, 2023; 24: September 24, 2023;

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A modern Canal Street name tablet with Chinese on either side part of the art installation in the station

The passageway from the Bridge platforms to the Tunnel platforms

A now obsolete sign about where to go when the W is not running to get to Astoria, now its the rule at all times

Entering the transfer corridor from the R train, the ramp comes down from turnstiles to the entrance specifically to the N,Q

Down for the R,W up for the exit to Canal Street and Broadway

A Canal St name tablet

The staircase from the downtown platform for Canal St & Broadway

A direction signs for the station exits and the transfers at those streets on the N,Q platform

The staircase for the downtown 6 platform and exit to Lafayette Street

The narrow corridor that provides an overpass between the N,Q platform before the staircase to the Downtown 6 and the east side of Lafayette Street

Signs for the N stopping at the upper-level platform in English and Chinese

A sign for the transfers some stickers cover up obsolete information

The exit to Lafayette Street and the uptown 6 train

The overpass and exit for the uptown 6

A staircase down from the uptown 6 platform to one of the N,Q platforms

Looking down the Brooklyn-bound N,Q platform

Heading down the ramp from the Uptown R platform (the joins the passageway to a staircase under the R trains from Downtown R trains) to the transfer corridor to the Brooklyn Bridge platforms

A name tablet on the R to N,Q transfer passageway

A name tablet in the trimline on the platform. This trimline is all modern after the station received a 1970s blocky renovation

A R46 N train stops on the narrow platform, by the staircase to Uptown 6 trains, there is a short section of fence in font of the staircase, I think for safety to avoid anyone running into the tracks since the platform is so narrow

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