These are noticeable
in the power house and the electrical sub-stations and particularly in
the passenger stations. It might readily have been supposed that the
limited space and comparative uniformity of the underground stations
would afford but little opportunity for architectural and decorative
effects. The result has shown the fallacy of such a supposition.
[Illustration: PLAN OF 28TH ST. & 4TH AVENUE STATION.]
Of the forty-eight stations, thirty-three are underground, eleven are
on the viaduct portions of the road, and three are partly on the
surface and partly underground, and one is partly on the surface and
partly on the viaduct.
[Sidenote: _Space Occupied_]
The underground stations are at the street intersections, and, except
in a few instances, occupy space under the cross streets. The station
plans are necessarily varied to suit the conditions of the different
locations, the most important factor in planning them having been the
amount of available space. The platforms are from 200 to 350 feet in
length, and about 16 feet in width, narrowing at the ends, while the
center space is larger or smaller, according to local conditions. As a
rule the body of the station extends back about 50 feet from the edge
of the platform.
At all local stations (except at 110th Street and Lenox Avenue) the
platforms are outside of the tracks. (Plan and photograph on pages
30 and 31.) At Lenox Avenue and 110th Street there is a single island
platform for uptown and downtown passengers.
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