181st Street station

The 181st Street station is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located beneath Fort Washington Avenue in the Hudson Heights section of the neighborhood, between 181st and 184th Streets.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: New York City IND Eighth Avenue Line subway station
  • Also known as: “181”, “181 A”, “181 St”, “181st St A”, and “181st Street”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bennett Park and Fort Washington Collegiate Church.

Park
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, also known as James Gordon , is a 1.8-acre public park in , named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.

Church
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is a Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church located at Magaw Place and 181st Street in the neighborhood of , .

Synagogue
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The is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 524 Fort Washington Avenue between West 183rd and 184th Streets, across from in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of in . is situated 420 feet northeast of 181st Street station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Washington Heights and Morris Heights.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of in . It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood located in the West Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: West Burnside Avenue to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, the Cross Bronx Expressway to the south, and the to the west.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the central-west section of , . Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, to the south, and the to the west.

181st Street station

Latitude
40.85176° or 40° 51′ 6″ north
Longitude
-73.93796° or 73° 56′ 17″ west
Inception
September 10th, 1932
Wheelchair access
no
Operator
New York City Transit Authority
Network
NYC Subway
Open location code
87G8V326+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5406637772
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q2442219
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“181st Street station” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “181街”
  • Chinese: “181街車站”
  • Dutch: “181st Street”
  • Esperanto: “Stacio 181-a Strato”
  • French: “181st Street”
  • Italian: “181st Street”
  • Japanese: “181丁目駅”
  • Korean: “181번가역”
  • Polish: “181st Street”
  • Russian: “181-я улица”
  • Spanish: “Calle 181”
  • Ukrainian: “181-ша вулиця”

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