Substation 401

United States historic place


Substation #401
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Main entrance
40°40′49″N 73°52′57.5″W / 40.68028°N 73.882639°W / 40.68028; -73.882639
Area	less than one acre
Built	1901
Architect	Murray, Thomas E.
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.	05000680 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 6, 2005

Substation #401, also called the "Essex Sub-station" is a historic New York City Subway electrical substation.

This facility is located on the south side of Fulton Street, between Essex Street and Shepherd Avenue, in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn. It sits adjacent to the BMT Jamaica Line between the Cleveland Street and Norwood Avenue stations.

It was built in 1901 by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the Cypress Hills extension of the BMT Lexington Avenue Line, and is a Beaux Arts style structure.^[2] Through a series of acquisitions, it was passed over to the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, then the New York City Board of Transportation, the New York City Transit Authority, and finally the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), where it remains to this day.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.^[1]

References

Media related to Substation 401 (Essex Sub-Station) at Wikimedia Commons

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ unknown. "National Register of Historic Places Registration:Substation #401". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved March 2, 2011. See also: "Accompanying nine photos".

New York City Subway

Current
services

Shuttles	42nd Street Franklin Avenue Rockaway Park
Planned

Defunct
services

1985–present
Pre-1985	8 9 (Dyre Avenue) AA BB CC EE (Eighth Avenue) EE (Broadway) GG HH (Court Street) JJ K (Jamaica) KK LL MJ NX QB QJ QT RJ RR T TT
Shuttles	Bowling Green Broadway/63rd Street Culver Grand Street Nassau Street Polo Grounds Sixth Avenue/63rd Street
BMT numbers	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Brooklyn Loops East New York Loop
Unused labels	Unused New York City Subway service labels

Stations (List)

By borough	The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens
By type	Closed Terminals Transfer Accessible

Divisions

A Division
- IRT
B Division
- BMT
- IND

Other lists

History

Early history	IRT BMT BRT Dual Contracts
Expansions	MTA Capital Construction and Development Company Chrystie Street Connection Interborough Express Program for Action 7 Subway Extension Second Avenue Subway Historic proposals Construction Other proposals LaGuardia Airport extension
Notable crashes	Ninth Avenue, 1905 Malbone Street, 1918 Times Square, 1928 Union Square, 1991 Williamsburg Bridge, 1995 96th Street, 2024
Strikes	1966 1980 2005
Service disruptions	2017–2021 New York City transit crisis 2019–2020 L train shutdown
Other major incidents	1984 shooting 2000 lawsuit 2017 bombing 2020 fire 2022 attack 2023 killing

Infrastructure

Accessibility
58 Joralemon Street
Fulton Center
- Corbin Building
- Dey Street Passageway
Substations
- 7
- 18
- 219
- 401
- IRT
- Dyckman-Hillside

Arts and
culture

Miscellaneous

Other rapid
transit in NYC

Historical	Beach Pneumatic Transit Manhattan Railway Company

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