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[[Image:Flickr-sciamano-subway.jpg|thumb|240px|Photo taken by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/sciamano/ Flickr user Sciamano] and released under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 license].]] | [[Image:Flickr-sciamano-subway.jpg|thumb|240px|Photo taken by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/sciamano/ Flickr user Sciamano] and released under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 license].]] | ||
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Effectively Columbia's subway station. It is on the 1 line, which runs local from South Ferry to Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street. The next uptown station is [[125th Street subway station|125th Street]], and the next one downtown is [[Cathedral Parkway-110th Street subway station|Cathedral Parkway-110th Street]]. | Effectively Columbia's subway station. It is on the 1 line, which runs local from South Ferry to Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street. The next uptown station is [[125th Street subway station|125th Street]], and the next one downtown is [[Cathedral Parkway-110th Street subway station|Cathedral Parkway-110th Street]]. | ||
The station is one of the few at which you can change from the uptown train to the downtown train without exiting. | The station is one of the few at which you can change from the uptown train to the downtown train without exiting. | ||
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| + | It is said that [[William Barclay Parsons]], CC'1879 and Chief Engineer of the IRT Subway project, purposely designed the Columbia station to be the nicest in the system. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:12, 5 August 2014
- See also Wikipedia's article about "116th Street–Columbia University (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)".
Effectively Columbia's subway station. It is on the 1 line, which runs local from South Ferry to Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street. The next uptown station is 125th Street, and the next one downtown is Cathedral Parkway-110th Street.
The station is one of the few at which you can change from the uptown train to the downtown train without exiting.
It is said that William Barclay Parsons, CC'1879 and Chief Engineer of the IRT Subway project, purposely designed the Columbia station to be the nicest in the system.
