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INTRODUCTION

The construction of New York City’s underground railroad, popularly known as the subway, was begun in 1900 when Mayor Robert Van Wyck ceremonially broke ground at City Hall. The first line, still called the IRT by New Yorkers, was completed in 1904. It was celebrated as a great marvel of engineering and civic achievement.

The contract for construction contained the following somewhat unusual provision:

“The railway and its equipment as contemplated by the contract constitute a great public work. All parts of the structure where exposed to public sight shall therefore be designed, constructed and maintained with a view to the Fig. 1: beauty of their appearance, as well Guastavino tile vault- ing in abandoned as to their efficiency.” City Hall Station, circa 1904. This mandate for beauty in a public work was carefully followed and many stations in the system were splendid combinations of technology and art. This concern for high standards of design as applied to the development of the stations directly reflected their significance as civic architecture.

Since that propitious beginning, time and frequent usage have taken their toll on the system's 468 stations. The Station Rehabilitation Program has been established to provide for returning stations to a “state of good repair” which Fig. 2: is defined as the point at which all the Refurbished Astor major elements of a station are brought to Place Station. a 35 year life cycle. Design criteria for the Although recon- rehabilitation of stations established in structed in 1986, new materials are this manual will guide the program effort influenced by and as well as serve as a reference for other respect existing station improvement projects. design elements.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 INTRODUCTION - 1 The goal of the New York City implementation of this manual will bring Transit is to provide a safe, reliable, the system to that state of beauty and cost-effective and customer-oriented efficiency envisioned by the original public transportation system. Clean well- builders. lit, inviting stations directly affect people’s sense of well-being and security and are essential in attracting riders to the system.

This manual sets forth principles and establishes design guidelines for the comprehensive rehabilitation and other improvements of stations. With many station rehabilitation projects already completed, it is evident that the Fig. 3: Euclid Ave. station on the IND line, circa 1948.

NYCTA DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 INTRODUCTION - 2 Quick Start Guide to the Guidelines

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General Guidelines. . . . General Scope of Work. . . . . RS1.1 Design Principles ...... DP-1

Safety Requirements . . . . . Security and Safety ...... 17.1 Lighting ...... 16.1

Customer Services...... Agent Booths...... 3.1 Fare Array, Controls . And Barriers...... 12.1 Accessibility...... 9.1 Communications...... 7.1

Fare Control Areas. . .Agent Booths...... 3.1 Fare Array, Controls . And Barriers...... 12.1 Level of Service . Standards...... RS3.1

ADA Requirements. . . ..Accessibility...... 9.1

Materials...... Ceilings...... 5.1 Floors...... 13.1 Walls...... 19.1

Stairs...... Entrances...... 10.1 Stairways and Railings. . . . .18.1

Artwork...... Art and Preservation...... 4.1

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL JUNE 2010 GENERAL INFORMATION -GN- 1 GENERAL INFORMATION

SYSTEM MAP

The NYCT Route/Section Map, listed under Reference Standards "RS-4", shows the locations of the above ground and underground NYCT Stations, as well as other useful transit system information. The stations are located in four boroughs; Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

STATION CLASSIFICATION

Each NYCT station is classiﬁ ed as a BMT, IRT or IND Division station and is further classiﬁ ed by Line name and station type. The following table shows the number of stations and lines, their Division, and station type.

DIVISION STATIONS LINES SUBWAY ELEVATED OPEN AIR

BMT 141 12 58 55 28

IRT 177 14 101 71 5

IND 150 12 118 27 5

TOTAL 468 38 277 153 38

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL JUNE 2010 GENERAL INFORMATION - GN-2 DESIGN PRINCIPLES

INTRODUCTION PRINCIPLES The formulation of comprehensive and Clean, bright stations which convey a unified design guidelines for the New sense of order are generally perceived as York subway system is important because secure. It is as important to establish the it is a complex and diverse system with perception of a secure environment as it lines and stations of different character is to introduce physical, mechanical, or and design. electronic devices to provide security.

The first subway stations, the IRT and Considerations of safety and ac- the BMT, constructed at the beginning of cessibility are fundamental to good the 20th century, were designed in the station design. The established stan- Beaux Arts style. By 1935, when work on dards for fare controls, railings, handrails, the IND line had begun, station design edge strips and other devices must be reflected the revolutionary changes in followed. architecture as Modernism swept away the Beaux Arts tradition. Materials and components selected are to be easily cleanable, durable and These generic line differences, which replaceable if damaged. Proposed reflect the changes from the Victorian, improvements should minimize service through the Arts and Crafts, to the Modern disruptions during the construction period, characterize the system today. phase.

The original character of stations should A palette of materials and colors for be maintained or expressed wherever station finishes are specified as the possible with new elements and re- design vocabulary for all stations. The quirements integrated with the old. The selection is limited not only to achieve best approach is one which recognizes economies in construction and main- generic line differences and coordinates tenance but also to establish a clear old and new elements. It is the middle visual order and identity for the system. ground between strict historic restoration and comprehensive modernization that The visual clutter and sense of confusion this manual addresses. created by the proliferation of different materials, advertising, signage, concessions, conduits and service equipment should be addressed by eliminating unnecessary or abandoned elements and by careful coordination of all the work.

All stations should include art work as an integrated part of station architecture. Stations with original decorative art that is historically significant may not require the addition of new art.

Station design should strive for visual coherence and clarity. The original Fig. 1: character of stations should be "Flying Wheels" logo maintained or expressed wherever used as early id- possible with new elements and entification of the Interborough Rapid requirements incorporated with the old. Transit System.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 DESIGN PRINCIPLES - 1 STRATEGIES SUMMARY Station design should strive for visual 1. Apply comprehensive and uniform coherence, clarity and simplicity. The design guidelines to all stations. three strategies for doing so are outlined as follows: 2. Preserve, or replicate in spirit, the original character of stations with PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION new elements integrated to comple- Where practicable and desirable the ment the old. original character of a station should be maintained, with new work integrated to 3. Recognize and express generic line complement the original design elements. differences. Original finishes and materials should be retained and repaired, rather than 4. Remove all unnecessary or aban- replaced, to the extent feasible. This doned work. Coordinate the place- strategy is mandated for all work on ment of all new work. stations with landmark designation which must be reviewed and approved by the 5 . Make stations safe, secure, and ac- New York City Landmarks Commission. cessible.

REHABILITATION 6. Introduce new lighting and floor materials that make stations clean, This strategy provides for replacement of bright and secure. existing work with new materials and finishes in the spirit of the original 7. Select materials, components and station as recommended in the Design systems which are durable and eas- Guidelines. ily maintained. RECONSTRUCTION 8. Establish and conform to a limited In stations where the preservation/ palette of materials and colors. restoration or rehabilitation strategies are not feasible, new materials, finishes and 9. Retain original art and promote the components may be introduced. The integration of art, graphics, and ar- design intent of this strategy is to establish chitecture. compatibility with the design principles in these guidelines and with stations or 10. Base design decisions on life cycle portions of stations that have been modified cost analyses of proposed materi- in accordance with the strategies stated als, components and systems. above.

ACCEPTANCE OF EXISTING CONDITIONS For stations in good repair, acceptance of station elements in their existing condition without mandating conformance to the Design Guidelines is subject to review by the NYCT.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 DESIGN PRINCIPLES - 2 CEILINGS

INTRODUCTION Ceilings of underground subway stations are typically exposed concrete and/or steel structural systems which support the street system above. In addition to providing stability, these structures are like a building’s roof and must keep water out. Therefore, the priority is to insure structural stability and to prevent penetration of moisture and water.

Ceilings of above ground stations typically consist of exposed concrete and/or steel structural systems at the control area (frequently the underside of trackway above), and exposed steel framing and metal roofi ng at platform canopies. Stairways from street level up to the control area at elevated stations typically have steel framed, metal roofed coverings. Fig.1: Coffered ceiling Special attention should be given to above 14th Street restoring or replicating the original ceiling Station, circa 1910. design at historic stations, especially vaulted or dropped and decorative durable, maintainable, and easily ceilings in original IRT stations. Design replaced, if damaged. Suspended elements to be preserved include ceilings are not allowed over the exposed girders, framing, grilles, and trackway. tongue and groove woodwork. 3. Minimum ceiling heights of 7'-0" SURFACE TREATMENTS should be maintained. Reductions Ceilings may be treated as follows: to 6"-8" may be permitted below signage, light fi xtures and beams, 1. The existing exposed ceiling struc- only if necessary. ture should remain as exposed concrete wherever practical. If necessary paint in accordance with the Authority’s standard specifi cations and color palette. Ceilings above the track at underground stations shall be coated with a one- coat paint system. In some cases, where necessary, two coats may be applied. See COLOR chapter for color palettes.

2. Suspended ceilings may be considered in areas receiving special lighting or to cover unsightly existing conditions. Ceilings shall be of ﬁ re resistant and non toxic material,

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 CEILINGS - 5.1 REFERENCE/CHAPTERS ACOUSTICS COLOR LIGHTING WALLS

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 CEILINGS - 5.2 COLOR

INTRODUCTION In the fi rst subway stations, art and IRT/BMT and IND divisions, and decoration were considered integral all above ground stations. Colors elements of architecture. Ceramic tile, selected for a subway or above selected as the primary fi nish material ground station may be chosen from for underground stations, led to the use the division color group only. Within of ceramic ornament as decorative art. the IRT/BMT color group, color Color was used to enrich the architecture combinations are permitted. IND and to inform and orient riders. stations shall have a single color chosen from the division color group. In the IRT/BMT, color was incorporated into decorative bands, faiences and 3. Colors for both the interior and plaques, giving each station its own exterior portions of above ground identity and character. Many examples stations are listed in Color Group III. of this original architectural fi nish remain Colors for interior portions of these and should be preserved. same stations, where the interiors have wall tile fi nishes, should be In contrast to the IRT/BMT, IND stations chosen from the appropriate IRT/ were designed to be spacious, spare, BMT or IND subway station color and functional. Color in these stations group. was used as a coding system to identify stations and orient riders to their location 4. Colors selected for columns and ex- along a line. posed steel beams of underground stations (other than track structures) The above ground stations in the system should complement the colors of tile have both interior control areas and work. Neutral tones (i.e. grays and exterior platforms. Color is used in blacks) from Color Group IV may these stations to give a uniform exterior be used only when other colors are identity to the above ground portions of inappropriate. Should a light colored the transit system. paint be proposed for columns in the public areas, the contrast with colors The spirit and character of the original of surrounding materials shall be stations, which bridge the nineteenth enhanced. To render the columns and twentieth centuries, are the basis more visible for the vision impaired, for the selection of colors and materials the bottom 12 inches shall be painted set forth in this manual. Ebony Black.

COLOR SELECTION 5. Color Group IV provides neutrals and 1. The color schedule for stations is tones to be used system wide for responsive to the original colors subway entrances, track columns, and materials found in the subway ceilings and other special conditions. system. Neutral colors will also be used for doors, door frames, and wall 2. The color schedule establishes surfaces. Refer to Color Groups III ﬁ ve color groups, which reﬂ ect the and IV for the use of neutral colors generic differences between the in above ground and underground stations.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.1 6. Paint colors shall conform and be limited to the palette established in this manual. Manufacturers listed herein are for reference only.

7. Tile colors for mosaic bands at IRT/BMT stations are shown for reference only. Where possible, designers should match existing mosaic colors. Tile colors for other trim or accent tiles is offered as a "family" of colors for reference and may vary in tint or shade, and shall enhance existing wall mosaics.

8. Color tiles for IND stations should be chosen from the speciﬁ ed colors indicated in order to match the color of the original wall tile bands.

9. The color schedule is coordinated with the ﬂ oor and wall materials speciﬁ ed in other sections of this manual.

10. Where new concrete is required, and a color match is necessary, a color additive may be used. The color shall be sympathetic to other interior colors. However, bare concrete is preferred.

11. Unless previously painted or required for safety reasons, concrete column bases shall be unpainted.

12. To aid passengers with limited vision capabilities, contrasting colors must be provided between the ﬂ oor and walls (or wall base) and the ﬂ oor and columns.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.2 COLOR GROUP I - IRT/BMT UNDERGROUND STATIONS Color Paint Application Note: Paint and tile colors Pittsburgh may be used individually or in combination with other colors within the group. Red Garnet Ornamental tiles for new 7192 wall surfaces. Paint colors for columns and exposed steel girders on the platforms and all other public areas of a station.

Ochre Earthen Gold 4272

Green Newport Green 7425

Light Blue Cosmos Blue 4071

Dark Blue Cobalt Blue 7094

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.3 COLOR GROUP II - IND UNDERGROUND STATIONS Note: Color Paint Tile Application Paint and tile colors shall be used as a Pittsburgh American Olean single color only. Dal-Tile

Red Garnet Claret Ornamental wall tiles for 7191 113 new work to follow IND station color code (Refer to map). Paint colors for columns and exposed steel beams

Yellow Ginger Tan Mustard 4270 DM-12*

Green Forest Shade Evergreen 7062 D 32*

Blue Federal Blue Royal Blue 7062 105

* Indicates a Dal-Tile color

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.4 COLOR GROUP III - ABOVE GROUND STATIONS Note: Color Paint Application For paint and tile colors for above ground stations with tile inte- Pittsburgh riors, refer to the appropriate IRT/BMT or IND color group. Dark Green Woodland Night All exterior and interior 7009 columns and exposed steel structure; post; roof stringers and stair stringers for exterior, covered entrance stair.

Light Grey Lido Beige Exterior masonry walls of 2635 station houses; undersides of canopy roofs, interior of windscreens and interior station house walls.

Grey Ebony Black Underside of station en- 7754 trance stair structures; underside of a station house; supporting structural beams at underside of a station house (where applicable).

Black Federal Black Interior and exterior rail- 27038* ings; interior and exterior trim for doors and windows of station houses where exterior walls are painted in the Newport Green color; miscellaneous trim.

* indicates a federal speciﬁ cation number

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.5 COLOR GROUP III - ABOVE GROUND STATION SECTION

1) By Centria or Berridge

2) Provide Lido Beige exterior walls and windscreens when control area and platform are at the same level.

3) Lido Beige may be used above a wall which continues as a ceiling.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.6 COLOR GROUP IV - SYSTEM WIDE NEUTRALS

Color Paint Application Note: Neutral colors may Pittsburgh be used for columns and exposed steel beams in public areas of stations only White Silver White Interior mezzanine, station when other colors are 2530 house and platform ceiling, inappropriate. door and frames, wall surfaces. Exterior platform ceilings and above ground covered stair entrance ceilings.

Light Gray Lido Beige Miscellaneous trim 2635

Medium Weimar Gray Miscellaneous trim. Gray 3636

Grey Ebony Black Track ceiling and structure; 7754 miscellaneous trim

Black Federal Black Interior railings; including 27038* handrails; trash recepticles; sandboxes; miscellaneous trim.

* indicates a federal speciﬁ cation number

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.7 COLOR GROUP V - SYSTEM WIDE COLORS

Color Paint Application

Pittsburgh

Dark Green Woodland Night Entrance railings at under- 7009 ground and above ground stations; structural steel and columns at above ground stations.

Safety Colors Safety Yellow Paint top and bottom risers 23-780 of each stair and 4" at left and right end of ﬁ rst and last stair trends. Paint wood platform edge strip in ADA boarding area and in areas where wood edge is speciﬁ ed in lieu of yellow polyethylene edge strip.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.8 REFERENCES FLOORS WALLS CEILINGS

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COLOR - 6.9 COMMUNICATIONS

INTRODUCTION on SPACE REQUIREMENTS, under the subheading, Equipment rooms. Communication networks in the NYCT System serve the vital needs of providing Survey of the existing communications information to both NYCT staff and pas- room is required. Provide communica- sengers. Voice or data communications tion room equipment layout drawing can be either by radio or by transmission showing existing and new equipment over cables (copper or fiber optic to be installed. links). Verify ventilation requirements for the The primary means of transmitting room and upgrade if required. information by voice are: radio, telephone, public address, Emergency If required, provide new Cable Tray/ Booth Communication System (EBCS), Ladder, Telephone Terminal Board, Wall and train dispatching systems. The Telephone, TVSS, Fire Extinguisher, audio public address system is the main grounding and lighting. communication link between NYCT and its ridership. The Communication Equipment Rooms housing the transmission equipment Data transmissions principally provide require eight (8) hour uninterruptible NYCT with the necessary administrative power supply (UPS), minimum and tools to support the system to function proper grounding and shielding against in a safe and cost effective manner. the intrusion of potentially damaging This chapter brieﬂ y describes each of electromagnetic ﬁ elds. these networks and their requirements in station rehabilitation. CABLING

COMMUNICATIONS ROOM Communication services for both voice and data are provided to a sta- All station rehabilitation projects require tion over feeder cables. The feeder a Communications Room, which is the cables are installed by both NYCT focal point of all station communica- and Verizon. The NYCT feeder cables tions as well as the distribution center are connected to the Verizon’s fi ber for all station communications cables optic network, and Verizon's feeder Space is required for cable runs and cables are connected to their respec- turns, Telephone Terminal Boxes, radio tive network. equipment, police and fi re department radios, sound system equipment , CCTV, - If Communication room is not within Cable Ladder, LAN and train dispatch- the station complex, provide a tie- ing system equipment. At underground cable from the Communication room stations, communications rooms are to the telephone closet inside the constructed of concrete block. Pre- station complex. engineered/pre-fabricated enclosures - Tie cable shall run in the NYCT may be used for communications rooms conduits. at outdoor stations. The size of this room - Survey all existing facilities such as varies signifi cantly, depending on station dispatcher offi ce, signal tower and requirements and should have some ad- crew room which are within the scope ditional wall space for future customer of work; identify and document the related communication equipment. It is existing communication equipment. often 350 square feet or more. Require- - Provide new telephone terminal boxes ments for space allocation, fi xtures and inside agent booths, fi eld manager's equipment can be found in the chapter offi ces, Transit Bureau district offi ces,

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS- 7.1 crew quarters, mechanical rooms, subway station can be subjected to electrical panel rooms, Verizon tele- electromagnetic interference/radio phone room and dispatcher rooms. frequency interference (EMI/RFI). - Run appropriate telephone cables for Shielding from this “background noise” the agent booths, and all fi eld man- that could alter or destroy transmis- ager's offi ces, Transit Bureau district sion is provided by the installation offi ces, crew quarters, mechanical of shielded cables and cables in- rooms, electrical panel rooms, ejector stalled in metallic conduit or wire- room, Verizon telephone room and ways. For Verizon cable installations, dispatcher rooms from communica- which originate in a manhole at street tion room or telephone closet. level, Verizon will provide conduit between the street manhole and the interior During station rehabilitation, existing of the subway through waterproof fer- NYCT and Verizon telephone terminal rules to a junction box provided by the boxes (TTB) are relocated from Authority. Conduit between the point their existing locations to newly of entry and the Verizon room, or other constructed adjoining communications destination within a station, is provided rooms. Station feeder cables from by the Authority. Verizon installs the NYCT are brought into the respective cable from their street manhole to their communications rooms. Verizon feeder telephone terminal box and public tele- cables enter the station area through phones in the station. A small closet ferrules installed from a duct connected near the Verizon point of entrance should to a Verizon manhole located at street be provided to house the Verizon T.T.B. level and brought into a room provided Cable to public telephones is provided for Verizon equipment. During the by Verizon. design phase NYCT personnel and Verizon representatives and meet in the Prior to the preliminary engineering fi eld to determine the Verizon point of milestone the designer should conduct entry into the station. The names of all a survey to identify all the cables from attendees and agreements made should Verizon which feed the radio equipment. be documented. With the completed The result of the surveys should become station rehabilitation, the communication part of the design records. rooms become the distribution center for all station communication cables Communications backbones including and the focal point of all forms of wireless which support systems critical communications. Conduits to support to emergency operations and public the station’s communications cabling safety require 'no-single-point-of-failure' are then installed to agent booths, basis for design. The use of optional administrative areas and stand - alone fi ber cables eliminates electromagnetic communications devices within the interference and provides greater trans- station complex. To minimize clutter, the mission distance and bandwith. The smallest conduit that will accommodate overall system design will use redundant the cable will be used. Multiple cable in return fi ber optic cable paths outside conduits or wire ways will be used where of the MTA facilities (i.e. local phone possible. The prototypical layouts for company or other service providers) to the public address system can be found ensure continuing operations should a in the Lighting Chapter, section 16.9. cable be damaged during an incident. Size and equipment requirements for the communications room are found in the Equipment Room section of the chapter on Space Requirements. Communication cables installed at a

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS - 7.2 RADIO Space in the communication room for radio equipment is to be provided at every underground station. Requirements Radio communication within the railroad for space allocation, fixtures and is used mainly by the NYPD Transit equipment can be found in the chapter Bureau, NYC Fire Department and the on SPACE REQUIREMENTS, under the NYCT / Department of Subways. The subheading, Equipment Rooms. radio system links the NYPD Transit Bureau command center with police During station rehabilitation, the existing offi cers, and link the Rapid Transit radio base stations are relocated into Operations command center with the communications rooms. New the train crews, signal towers, and antenna cables must be provided for yards. Radio scanners are installed the reconnection of the base stations in agent booths to scan information to the main line antenna. New copper of the six Rapid Transit operating needs to be provided to the Radio Base radio frequencies. Radio signals are Station as signals from the NYPD and transmitted throughout the subway RTO Command centers are fed via stations by means of an antenna cable telephone lines. RTO signals are fed running continuously in the subway through NYCT lines and NYPD signals tunnels and stations. In some instances are fed through Verizon lines. in stations, antenna cable branches from the main cable to provide radio coverage TELEPHONE to mezzanines, passageways and other areas beyond the main antenna's Four different types of telephones are range. In order to radiate effectively, required in a station rehabilitation: the antenna cable cannot be installed in Telephones provided by NYCT, public metallic conduit or wireways. As antenna coin telephones, sound powered phones cable cannot be painted, the color of for elevators and escalators, and the exposed antenna cable should be ADA-Compliant Passenger Assistance selected to match surrounding surfaces. telephones (Speaker Phones). The cable shall be installed with an offset as indicated in the Communication NYCT telephones are installed in both Standard Drawings. The antenna cable administrative areas and service areas must be mounted tautly, with every effort staffed by NYCT personnel including: made to minimize snaking, dipping and dispatchers offi ce, agent booths, Field sagging. No cabling should be placed Manager's offi ces, NYPD Transit Bureau in front of mosaic or tile walls. district offi ces, crew quarters, Mecha- nical, Ejector Rooms and Electrical Panel Other antennas, called “fi recracker”and Rooms. Telephones are not required in “low profi le”, are often used to provide toilets, scrubber, refuse, cleaner, storage radio coverage to mezzanine areas. and meter rooms. Telephone lines They can be fed electrically by using are installed from the communications coaxial cable installed in a small conduit, room, through NYCT provided conduits, or in a separate compartment of a throughout the station area for the lighting trough. Refer to the chapter on Emergency Booth communications LIGHTING. system (EBCS),Verizon public coin telephones and NYCT Telephones. Radio coverage to above ground Refer to chapter on FARE ARRAY, stations is provided by means of outdoor CONTROLS AND BARRIERS. antennas located at selected stations. These antennae are often located on Public coin operated telephones the roofs of platform canopies. provided by Verizon located within the stations are used for passenger

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS- 7.3 convenience and can be used in case the agent in the full-time agent booth that of emergency. Currently, if a passenger a person is requesting assistance. The dials 911 in the event of an emergency, NYCT agent can operate the telephone this call is received by the NYC Police feature in the agent booth to allow a Department and reported to the NYPD two-way conversation. In an elevator Transit Bureau. Public coin operated with more than one car operating panel telephones are located on platforms and a speaker phone should be provided for mezzanine areas. At least one public each panel. coin-operated telephone should be a Telecommunication Device for the Deaf Provide key telephone system inside (TDD). This telephone requires a power the communication room, cross-connect source and should be installed in the paid required number of trunk and station lines side of the main full-time control area. If to nearest TTBD, PBX or Fiber Optic there is more than one control area with Node. Also provide feature phone inside no free transfer between them, additional 24 -hour token booth to allow two way TDD's should be installed. One public communications between token booth telephone should be installed at the clerk and customers. Conductor's Boards. Requirements for telephones are outlined in the Passenger assistance and emergency chapter"ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE communication devices are required DISABLED ". throughout the public facilities. Emergency intercom/duress buttons Sound Powered Telephone System for or assistance stations will be brightly Elevators and Escalators: marked with striping or paint visible in low light. CCTV with automatic activation of - Provide a sound powered telephone corresponding cameras will be provided, system for elevator and escalator as well as dedicated communication with maintenance. security or law enforcement. Include - For each elevator provide sound ﬂ ashing lights that can rapidly pinpoint powered telephone jacks in pit, cab, the location of calling station for the on top of cab and in elevator machine response force. Emergency intercom/ room. duress buttons or assistance stations will - For each escalator provide sound be within 50 feet of reach of any point powered telephone jacks in upper along a platform. escalator pit, lower escalator pit and escalator machine room. It will only be possible to re-set a station - Place sound powered telephones that has been activated at the station with (hand sets) in an enclosure in the a security key. It will not be possible to elevator and escalator machine re-set the station from any monitoring rooms. site.

ADA Compliant Passenger Assistance When a station rehabilitation requires a Telephone (Speaker Phones): ﬁ re standpipe system, a sound powered telephone communication system is These are ADA Compliant Passenger installed with it. The system consists of Assistance telephones located at telephone jacks installed in weatherproof waiting areas, passenger elevators, enclosures on the siamese connection each elevator landing, passageways, for the station, and on the platforms unmanned control areas, AFAS gates, inside the hose valve enclosures. and mezzanines that have CCTV Cables and conduits connecting the Cameras installed for security. Push jacks are installed along the length of the button activation by a passenger notiﬁ es standpipe within a station. The New York

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS - 7.4 City Fire Department brings telephone and distributes the audio messages instruments with them each time they throughout the station. Room size and respond to a situation. Reference equipment requirements are described the chapter on ENVIRONMENTAL in Equipment Rooms, in the chapter CONTROLS. on SPACE REQUIREMENTS. The ADA - Compliant Passenger Assistance following systems are currently in use. Telephones are provided along with CCTV surveillance and elevator AUDIO PUBLIC ADDRESS cameras. SYSTEM

DATA COMMUNICATION This system is an essential means of SERVICES communication between NYCT and our customers. It is used primarily to Data services are used primarily to alert passengers to service changes. process statistical information from an on It also serves to advise riders and - site terminal device to a centrally located staff of emergency conditions. It is computer and to LANs in employee the primary means of communicating offi ces. In time, data communications with passengers who are visually will become more prevalent with impaired. Therefore, it is extremely customer related activities such as important that public address messages the Automatic Fare Collection (AFC), are clear and intelligible. Audio public MetroCard Vending Machines (MVM) address messages at selected stations and travel related passenger information will be complemented with visual text assist Services. displays for passengers with hearing disabilities. Data information can be transmitted either by private dedicated circuits Announcements can be made from the (no dial tone present) or a dial circuit Rail Control Center, (RCC) the key similar to a telephone dial circuit. Data dispatcher’s location, a local dispatcher, information is transmitted over Verizon or the agent in the full-time agent cable through their existing network or booth of a station. New P.A. systems NYCT cable using the NYCT fi ber optic provide improved sound quality and network. Data is transmitted over the are integrated into the stations' lighting same cable that provides telephone system. The Transit Authority has service to the station. designated two categories of stations LAN is provided in employee offi ces based on the operation and public and in elevator and escalator machine address controls: Key Dispatcher and rooms. In stations where a LAN is not Remote Stations. A Key Dispatcher available data cables from the commu- Station controls it's own P.A. system nication room for future incorporation and those of an associated group of with the NYCT data network are installed remote stations. It is important to the to the elevator and escalator machine designer of the public address system rooms. to recognize the difference between the two stations and be aware of the different PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS requirements.

Public Address Systems furnish messages Key Dispatcher Stations are usually to the ridership about train service or located at terminal stations and at other passenger-related information. stations where two or more lines cross. The communications room houses Because the P.A. system of a station with the sound system equipment. This a key Dispatcher may be interconnected equipment receives, amplifies, with P.A. systems in other stations, the design of a public address system

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS- 7.5 also requires coordination with the Only the highest quality electronic modifi cation of public address equipment equipment should be used. Longer life, at other stations. less maintenance, less audio distortion and more reliability will offset the higher In December of 1991, NYCT retained an initial cost. acoustics consultant to study the existing public address system and make design Selection and training of those making recommendations for improvements to announcements is critical. Prerecorded the system. The following summarizes announcements should be used design criteria for public address whenever possible. systems based on the consultant's recommendations. (Designers who Where the existing electronics of a would like to review the more technical public address system has recently aspects of the report should obtain a been installed and is good working order, copy from the NYCT Communications this electronic will be maintained. At Engineering Offi ce.) station with existing old P.A. electronics or no P.A. system at all, a new P.A. 1. Cone type loudspeakers produce system will be installed. a more pleasing sound with a wider frequency range than horn type speakers VISUAL PUBLIC ADDRESS and shall be used. (CUSTOMER INFORMATION SCREENS) 2. Clarify of the sound produced by the public address system can be improved Customer Information Screens which by placing speakers closer together and provide a visual message with an facing down. Satisfactory spacing for accompanying audio signal to announce speakers in subway stations is 15' to 20'. the arrival of trains in a station also This spacing also allows the speakers provide informational messages to riders to be integrated with the lighting system who are hearing-impaired. Input to the in stations. For further information on customer information screens is provided the location of speakers in relationship from the Command Center . Information to lighting fi xtures, see the chapter on about customer information screens, LIGHTING. An average sound pressure is available from the Communication level of 82 dBA, measured directly Division. Refer to the chapter on under a speaker, was found to provide ADVERTISING for further information adequate intelligibility without being on electronic signage. excessively loud. “TALK-BACK” SPEAKERS At outdoor stations, cone speakers are These are ADA Compliant Passenger installed under the platform canopies at Assistance telephones that are located an average distance of 15 feet between speakers. The distance between at waiting areas, passenger elevators, speakers permits lowering the sound passageways, and mezzanines that pressure level of each speaker, which have CCTV installed for security. helps to reduce the sound spillage to the surrounding community. In mezzanines, Push button activation by a passenger speakers will be located by the control notifies the agent in the full-time areas and on stairs leading to platforms. agent booth that a person is requesting Announcements should not be made assistance. The NYCT agent can while a train is entering or leaving the operate the telephone feature in station. the agent booth to allow a two-way conversation.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS - 7.6 "TALK-THRU"SPEAKERS all the equipment within the system. If an equipment problem is detected, Every agent booth requires talk-thru the Command Center is notified speakers. This device permits the automatically in order to facilitate system agent to speak with passengers at the maintenance and repair. agent booth. The Halon Fire Suppression System EMERGENCY BOOTH shall be interfaced with the EBCS system COMMUNICATION SYSTEM so that activation of the halon system will activate the EBCS. The Emergency Booth Communication System (EBCS) is a computerized TRAIN DISPATCHING SYSTEM security system designed for New York City Transit . The system was developed The train dispatching system provides to protect personnel and customers continuous communications between during an emergency by providing the Rapid Transit Operation Command the means for responding quickly if Center, Dispatcher’s Offi ces and Signal emergency services are required. towers. During a station rehabilitation, the equipment for this system should be Each token booth is connected by relocated into the communications room. telephone lines to the Station Command A 12 pair feeder cable has to be provided Center. At the Command Center, for each cabinet and a 6 pair from the supervisors at computer workstations cabinet to the speaker console. monitor incoming alarms and take appropriate actions. Command Center SERVICE SYSTEMS supervisors can communicate with a Railroad Clerk over the EBCS during an Service Systems supply information emergency, and contact the appropriate to staff about environmental control services as required. equipment (i.e., mechanical, etc.) in the station. Pumps, highwater indications, Should an emergency occur that makes and phase loss signals are transmitted it impossible for a Railroad Clerk to talk to the Hydraulics Center located at to the Command Center supervisor 40 Sands Street in Brooklyn. Each over the EBCS handset, the system can EDR is provided with a heat detector, monitor sounds within a booth through intrusion alarm and phase loss signal. an automatic audio monitoring feature. These signals are sent to Jay Street In this case, the Command Center through a signal processor (digitizer) on supervisor could listen to sounds in the existing telephone cables. Elevators and booth, determine the type and extent escalators are provided with data lines of the emergency and take appropriate or telephone lines for the transmission actions to dispatch help immediately. In of diagnostics data to elevator and addition to handling emergencies, the escalator supervisor offi ce at 34th St./8th system includes a Mass Call and Speed Ave. facility. Dial (MCSD) capability. The MCSD capability allows the Command Center to send announcements to several booths EMERGENCY ALARM SYSTEMS at one time or to call a particular booth directly. Typically, Mass Call would be The emergency alarm system is used to inform token agents of a delay designed to turn off the third rail power. on a line, report cancellation of a specifi c Emergency alarm units are located train, or make routine station operative approximately every 600' throughout announcements. the railroad and in above ground agent EBCS regularly checks the status of booths.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS- 7.7 SMOKE DETECTION SYSTEMS system in normal operation for 24 hours followed by fi ve (5) minutes - Where an existing Fire Alarm Panel is in alarm condition. available, integrate the panel with the new fi re alarm panel using a monitor ELECTRONIC SECURITY module. Control access must be provided for Smoke detectors and shut-down control Utility Closets, Mechanical Rooms & modules for exhaust fans are provided Telephone Closets. Utilize access in the various rooms in the stations, control devices and alarms. including EDR, EPR, Communication Rooms, Elevator Machine Rooms, CCTV SYSTEMS Escalator Machine Rooms, Escalator Trusses, Refuse Rooms, etc. Horns A color CCTV surveillance system with and strobes are provided in rooms recording capability shall be provided to which might have occupancy or where view and record activity at the perimeter people may be working for an extended of the facility, particularly at primary en- period of time. Provisions are made for trances and exits. Color CCTV cameras elevator Phase I and Phase II Operation with pan-zoom-tilt drivers will be placed as part of the smoke detection system. at customer access points, employee The smoke detection control panel entrances, vehicle ramps, critical non- is installed in the 24 hr. control area public spaces of se cure sites, and in a NEMA 4X enclosure. A remote public accessible critical infrastructure. annunciator is provided in the agent The use of "smart" CCTV will be used booth. The system shall be designed to provide event-driven surveillance. to meet the New York State Fire Alarm A mix of monochrome cameras will Code. be considered for areas that lack adequate illumination for color cameras. - Provide addressable manual pull stations of the double action type CCTV is used to monitor the public at entry/exit doors as per NFPA 72 areas of a station, including passenger standard. elevators, unstaffed control areas, and - Provide photoelectric type by train conductors at curved platforms addressable duct detectors for to monitor passengers entering and HVAC system as required by applicable exiting from trains. codes to shut down associated HVAC equipment. - Provide CCTV cabinet inside - Provide monitor modules for non- Communication Room. addressable devices so that each - Provide digital video recording device, device is announced individually at appropriate storage device, video the control panel. Such devices shall switchers, alarm interface device, include tamper and fl ow switches of power supplies, LCD monitor and the sprinkler system, supervisory KSU inside CCTV cabinet. circuits for power supplies and - Provide color cameras, lenses and extinguishing (fire suppression) camera housing and mounts inside systems. elevator cab, each elevator landing - Provide fuse cutout box in electrica and at the public areas which needs room fed from the load side of the to be monitored. Elevators with more ATS power system. The fi re alarm than one door shall be provided with panel shall monitor indications of additional cameras. ATS position. - Existing control area cameras should - Provide battery backup with enough be relocated to coincide with the array power to keep entire fi re alarm changes.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS - 7.8 - Provide color LCD monitor inside 24-hour agent booth for monitoring cameras installed in public areas and elevators. - Provide color cameras, lenses and camera housing on the platform edges and color monitors, monitor housings and mounts at the conductor position for curved platform. Make provision for camera power and monitor power from the nearest electrical panel. - Provide all brackets, conduits, fittings, cables,connectors, wires, and any other required equipment for a complete and operating system.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS- 7.9 REFERENCES

NFPA STANDARDS COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING DESIGN CRITERA AND GUIDELINES (DG250) NEW YORK STATE FIRE ALARM CODE

CHAPTERS

ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE DISABLED ADVERTISING AGENT BOOTHS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS LIGHTING SPACE REQUIREMENTS

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 COMMUNICATIONS - 7.10 ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Requirements at rehabilitated stations outlining accessibility for people with disabilities are covered in NYCT Design Guideline 402.

Procedure to calculate the 20% Progressive ADA Requirement is attached.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 Accessibility for PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES - 9.1 ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

PROCEDURE TO CALCULATE THE 20% PROGRESSIVE ADA REQUIREMENT 1 Each Station is evaluated individually regardless of how the project is packaged for bid purposes. 2 If you “alter” something, you have to make it accessible to those with disabilities in the process. A Primary Function Area is defined as an area where the major activities for which a facility is 3 intended occur. In a Station, that would be platforms, mezzanines and employee area. Note: path of travel elements (such as stairs, ramps, passageways and elevators) are not considered part of the primary function area. ADA elements in stations are as follows: 4 . Accessible route between platform and street (elevator, ramp) . Entrance Stairs (handrails, tread 11” wide, and nosings) . AFAS auto-gate & card reader . Talk-back (AFAS to Token Booth) . Deal Tray at Token Booth . TTY Phone . Public Toilets . Employees’ Toilets . Locker rooms & office spaces (new rooms), or elements added to existing facilities . ADA boarding area . Platform edge ADA warning strip . Signage . Induction Loop system If a structure is being changed solely for an ADA reason, then all the associated work should be 5 included. For example, if a platform is being worked on only to correct a gap issue, the total cost of the platform work is counted. If however, the platform is being repaired for other reasons, such as general disrepair, we are obligated to bring it to ADA standards once we undertake the work, and only the difference between the cost of the work with and without the ADA scope elements (e.g. warning strip, gap correction) is considered. 6 Column A =Total Bid= Bid Cost per Station + Signage Cost per Station Column B =Primary Function Area Cost = Calculate all costs associated with work in the Primary 7 Function Areas as described above. Column C = ADA Expenditure = Calculate all the ADA related scope expenditures as described 8 above. 9 Column D = Net Construction Cost= Column B – Column C 10 Column E = 20% Calculation= Column D X 0.20 Column F = Cost Difference Between 20% Calculation and ADA expenditures = Column E – 11 Column C 12 If Column F is less than 0 = In compliance If Column F is more than 0 = The Office of ADA Compliance will evaluate which elements below 13 should be applied to make up the shortfall: i. accessible entrance ii. accessible route to an altered area iii. at least one accessible restroom iv. accessible telephone v. accessible drinking fountain vi. when possible, other accessible elements (parking, storage, alarms, etc)

Requirements at rehabilitated stations outlining accessibility for people with disabilities are covered in NYCT Design Guideline 402.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 Accessibility for PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES - 9.2 ENTRANCES INTRODUCTION The subway entrance is the front door to the station and the New York City Transit System. It is a symbol of welcome as well as a function.

It is the Authority’s policy and intent to standardize entrances to the transit system in order to establish a clear and consistent identity for both below and above ground stations.

STANDARDS As a general standard, below ground station entrances shall conform to the prototypes illustrated in this section. The prototypes are based on the existing railing types known as "KA" and "K1" (refer to Figs. 4 and 5).

These rail prototypes shall be used to give an identifiable street presence for Fig. 1: the transit system and will express the Entrance kiosk detail, line differences between the IRT/BMT Astor Place Station, (Type "K1") and the IND (Type "KA"). In replicated 1986. addition to the railings for below ground stations, this section also describes a prototype for freestanding entry posts.

In order to provide a clear and conistent Modifications to the bracket may include identity for station entrances, a prototype reduction in size of the wall mounting entrance canopy has been developed to plate, to accommodate the reduced width be used at all station entrances within of a support post and shortening the buildings. See Figure xx. stem under the globe to allow sufficient headroom at the sidewalk. The stairway Entrances to subway stations shall have should be provided with the standard a raised concrete landing platform of 4" painted railing design for above ground minimum which is intended to prevent stations. water from draining from the sidewalk into the station. The concrete edges shall be painted safety yellow as a warning of the step from the sidewalk.

At above ground stations, there are numerous existing entrance designs and stairway configurations leading from the street up to the control area. During a station rehabilitation, the station should be identified through use of the prototype entry bracket (refer to Figs. 9, 11, and 12).

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.1 RAILINGS The original "K1" entry handrail, which was introduced at IRT and BMT stations before 1918, reflects the late 19th century Beaux Arts tradition (refer to Fig. 4). The original "KA" handrail, installed in IND stations, is an Art Deco design consistent with the Modernist spirit of the 1930's (refer to Fig. 5). The prototype entry railings are based on these original railings. When a station undergoes re-habilitation, new cast iron railings in the appropriate prototypical design will be installed, or the existing prototypical railing will be refurbished. Fig. 2: As in the original K1 and KA railings, the Typical entrance condition against prototypes incorporate an illuminated building. Note double globe, located as shown in Figures 2 globe condition and and 3. The globe has been modified to omission of de- include a metal band and color indicator corative rail adjacent to facade. to show the entrance's open/closed status. Additional lighting of the entry stairs shall be provided as shown in Fig. 6.

The following policies shall also apply to entrance railings:

• Informational signage shall be limited to the panels incorporated into the entrance assembly.

• Telephones shall not be permitted as accretions or encumbrances to the station entrance.

• Cable barriers shall be used only when an entrance is closed for unusual conditions or permanently Fig. 3: not in use (refer to Fig. 7). Entrance plan with full railing. Globes Exceptions to this policy may be located at ends of long rails. considered for stations where existing conditions make adaptations of the prototype not practical, with the approval of the NYCT.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.2 PROTOTYPE K1

Fig. 4: Elevations of Prototype for IRT/BMT Entry Rail and Post.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.3 PROTOTYPE KA

Fig. 5: Elevations of Prototype for IND entry rail and post.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.4 ENTRANCE SECTION

Fig 6: Additional lighting at station entrance

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.5 ENTRANCE BARRIER

Fig 7: Elevation and detail of cable barrier at station entrances.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.6 ENTRY POST A prototype for a free-standing entry post has been developed. This prototype, as presented in Fig. 10, is a proportional adaptation of the KA light post, and marks the entry to both IRT/BMT and IND stations. It will be located at all station entrances where there are no railings.

At subway entrances within a building, the post shall be located opposite and on axis with the entrance, as shown in Fig. 8. Where existing site conditions do not permit an axial relationship to a building entrance, the post shall be located 24" from the curb and generally opposite the building entrance. Where there is no available sidewalk space Fig. 8: to locate entry posts, a new prototype Entry post location at station entrances bracket and signage indicating entry to within a building. the transit system may be mounted on the building (refer to Figs. 11 and 12). This signage shall be appropriate to the particular building and must be approved by the NYCT.

Installation of photocell-controlled, vandal-resistant street level entrance stairway lights indicate the availability of full-time booth agents. A green globe signifies a full-time open control area with an agent on duty or the use of HEETS (High Exit/Entry Turnstiles). A red globe alerts the customers that the access is exit-only, or that is permanently closed or a privately owned easement entrances/ exit only.

Pursuant to the Mayor's Executive Order No. 22 dated April 13, 1995, no new fixed streetscape elements, including subway entrances, signs, and stanchions may be constructed or installed within 10'-0" of the corner zone or corner off-set zone extension of property lines.

Fig. 9: Entry bracket location at above ground station entrances.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.7 PROTOTYPE ENTRY POST

Fig. 10a: Fig. 10b: Entry Post Entry Post NE corner, 55th St/8 Elevation Ave, Manhattan

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.8 PROTOTYPE ENTRY BRACKET

Fig. 11: Left: Elevation of Entry Bracket.

Right: Entry Bracket at Sheepshead Bay Station, Brooklyn

Fig. 12: Location options for Prototype Entry Bracket.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.9 TYPICAL EXISTING STANCHIONS

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.10 REFERENCES DESIGN PRICIPLES GENERAL SCOPE OF WORK

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL DEC 2012 ENTRANCES - 10.11 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS

INTRODUCTION

Rehabilitation of environmental control 6. Provide hot water heaters to serve systems for stations in the transit system cleaner/scrubber and toilet rooms. include requirements for mechanical, Employ instantaneous hot water electrical, hydraulic, and fire protection heaters at remote employee toilet work. Electrical requirements for lighting rooms. are discussed in the chapter on LIGHTING. All systems should be thoroughly 7. Floor drains in toilet rooms shall be inspected and recommendations made piped into a sanitary system. Floor to the NYCT as to what specific items drains in cleaner's rooms, refuse within each system need to be repaired rooms and EDR rooms may be piped and/or replaced. In addition to the to the track drainage trough. Drainage following, refer to design criteria available in refuse rooms and EDR rooms may from the respective station design be achieved by sloping the floor to the disciplines. door. Waste piping from a platform scrubber/cleaners room may be MECHANICAL routed to the track drainage trough. 1. Remove any abandoned equipment and ductwork. Repair and patch 8. Provide all new plumbing fixtures and openings and areas created by supports; and new cold, hot,sanitary, removal to match the existing area vent piping at all locations where surfaces. required.

2. Provide mechanical ventilation in all 9. Remove track lubrication equipment maintenance, service equipment, from dedicated rooms and provide all toilet rooms, pipe chambers, storage, new equipment in new Track refuse rooms, elevator machine rooms Lubrication Rooms. Reconnect the and other rooms. new equipment to the existing track piping system. 3. Provide air conditioning units and systems together with the necessary 10.Provide hose hydrants on mezzani- ductwork where required. Split nes and platforms at 150'-0" intervals systems, when employed, shall be for station cleaning. Preferred arranged to prevent rejection of heat locations for the hose hydrants are within the station. When employed, recessed in platform, stair or escalator thru the wall air conditioning units wing walls or within the column shall not protrude into public areas. webs facing the platforms. All water Custom manufactured thru the wall supply piping shall be protected from air conditioning units shall be provided freezing by heat tracing and insulation. for Field Manager's offices. An area No hose hydrants are provided on within a station being rehabilitated, if platforms of elevated stations. air conditioned, shall remain air conditioned in the rehabilitated layout. 11.Provide emergency eye wash in the cleaner/scrubber room. 4. Provide special ventilation for underground and air conditioning for 12.For Elevators and Escalators refer to above ground, Communication Chapter 9 Accessibility and Chapter Rooms. 17 Security and Safety.

5. Replace the sewage ejector equipment, system and sump pump.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS - 11.1 ELECTRICAL 9. Provide photo-electrically controlled 1. Remove all abandoned electrical booth status indicators at the street conduit, boxes, wires and fittings, level of each entrance stairway. including those which might be found on the underside of ceilings or elevated 10.Provide and/or maintain continuity structures. Repair and patch for the existing power system openings created by removal. throughout the station during a station rehabilitation. 2. Provide heating in all maintenance, service equipment and toilet rooms. 11.Provide heat tracing for the water supply at all stations as required. 3. Verify whether the station to be Heat tracing should be connected to rehabilitated is in the Power Upgrade and annunciator/alarm system Program. If required, upgrade normal located at a 24-hour, manned space. and reserve electrical services to the Provide heat tracing for drainage lines next rated service group over actual at elevated stations. load requirements, plus an additional 50% for future load expansion. Where HYDRAULICS existing conditions permit, normal and reserve electrical services should be 1. Remove all abandoned drainage remotely located from one another. lines; patch and repair openings as required. 4. Provide 800-amp electrical service (normal and reserve) for below grade 2. Replace all station drainage lines on stations. Provide 400-amp service at elevated stations. Selectively replace at (normal and reserve) at above station drainage lines on underground ground stations. stations.

5. Consolidate the existing and proposed 3. Apply current design approach to electrical utilities and panels into a underground station Ventilator unified distribution system within an Drainage Systems and to Station Electrical Distribution Room (EDR). Drainage Systems. This room must provide for expansion and incorporation of the latest design standards, including the Automated Fare Control (AFC) panel. Coordinate AFC requirements with the AFC program area.

6. Provide electrical outlets on mezzanines and platforms at 200'-0" intervals. Electrical outlets installed in wet areas must be GFI in type.

7. Provide electrical receptacles, switches and lighting in all rooms as required.

8. Provide electrical feed for all mechanical equipment.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS- 11.2 FIRE PROTECTION 1. Provide a Dry Fire Standpipe System and a Sound Powered Telephone System in accordance with Office of System Safety design criteria.

2. Arrange Refuse Rooms such that each is less than 100 sq.ft. Provide multiple rooms as required. Where Refuse Rooms must exceed 100 sq.ft., a Wet Sprinkler System taken from the Domestic Cold Water System is required.

3. Provide a Wet Sprinkler System taken from the Domestic Cold Water System for all concessions over 200 sq.ft. Concessions under 200 sq.ft. may not be sprinklered if a waiver is obtained from NYCT Office of System Safety.

4. Provide a Wet Sprinkler System for Storerooms over 200 sq.ft.

5. Provide a specially designed Wet Sprinkler System for each escalator truss.

6. Where required, provide a dedicated Sprinkler Water Service from City Water mains to serve all rooms determined to have sprinklers. Employ NYCT design criteria for such a system.

7. Refurbishment of a Agent booth involves coordination with NYC Halon System Contractor (EA Technology).

8. Provide 20lbs dry chemical fire extinguisher in Agent Booth.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS - 11.3 REFERENCES FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS LIGHTING SECURITY AND SAFETY NYCT POWER UPGRADE PROGRAM

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS- 11.4 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS

INTRODUCTION AUTOMATED FARE COLLECTION (AFC) All customers, when entering or leaving a station, pass through a control area Only AFC MetroCards are used where the fare array separates the paid as fare media, purchased from and unpaid zones. Metrocard Vending Machines (MVMs), Metrocard Express Machines (MEMs) The control area and the fare array are and authorized retailers. This has the areas of the greatest convergence of progressively changed the role of the pedestrian trafﬁ c, where large numbers Railroad Clerk from selling tokens to of people enter and exit the system. The Station Agents selling fare cards, advising design of the control area and fare array and directing customers, assisting must reconcile two, often conﬂ icting customers with travel information, and demands: the requirement to move emergency matters. Customer Station large numbers of customers through Agents are free to leave the booth to unobstructed space and the need to assist customers. prevent fare evaders from entering the system.

Originally, riders purchased tickets at change booths and dropped them into ticket choppers manned by attendants. Station control areas were unobstructed with relatively low trafﬁ c volumes. To adapt to increasing customer use, a fare control system utilizing tokens with mechanical and eventually electrical turnstiles proved effective for many years. In the early 1990's, in an effort to cope with the burgeoning use of the system and to utilize the best available technology for its customers, a pilot program for Automated Fare Collection (AFC) was introduced. Fig. 1: Typical Today, Metrocards are the fare media Conﬁ guration of purchased at agent booths, Metrocard MetroCard Vending Machine (MVM) and Vending Machines and authorized MetroCard Reader retailers. Customers swipe cards to (MCR) pass through turnstiles. AFC Technology has permitted the complete automation of the fare control system, thus allowing for the elimination of the token as a fare media.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.1 Control area types Fully Staffed Provides public access AFC GUIDELINES through low turnstiles 1. The structural envelope of the station shall at all times with Agent not be enlarged to accommodate AFC present 24 hours a requirements. day. Agent provides direct supervision of 2. No exisiting exit facilities shall be closed. this Control Area and remotely monitors other 3. The number of Low Turnstiles (LT), High Control Areas within the Entry/Exit Turnstiles (HEET), High Exit station. Turnstile (HXT) and Emergency Exit Gate (EG) in each Control Area shall be based Part Time Provide public access on customer usage and operating needs Fully Staffed only with low turnstiles defi ned by the Division of Station Opera- when an Agent will be tions and analysis by Operations Planning present. No access or of entry and exit data submitted by the egress at other times. Department of MetroCard Operations. Partially Staffed Public access with 4. If space permits, the Service Booth shall low turnstiles when an not initially be removed from a Control Agent is present, and Area that is designated Unstaffed. entry and exit through HEETs and HXTs 5. The location of AFC equipment shall have during other times. priority over Customer Information Center These control areas panels. If necessary, the Customer Infor- may have only HEETs mation Center may be located in the paid and HXTs when there zone. is not enough room for both low and high BUSINESS CENTER turnstiles. Customers needing assistance With the establishment of the AFC System, with the MVM will use certain business activities, such as the buying help Points to contact and selling of fare media, previously confi ned the Agent elsewhere in to the agent booth, now take place more and the station. more often outside the booth, at the location of the MetroCard Vending Machines. With Unstaffed Provides public access full implementation of AFC, most fare media through HEETs and purchases will be by MVM; some purchases HXTs. Control Area will will be at locations outside the system, others be periodically visited will be made online. by various NYCT personnel. Customers The MetroCard Vending Machines, Metro- needing assistance Card Reader, MetroCard Express Machine, with the MVM will use Customer Information Centers (CIC), CCTV Help Points to contact and Help Points will comprise the Business the Agent elsewhere in Center of the station. Designers should ad- the station. dress the need to group MVMs and associated equipment close together, provide for effi cient Exit Only Provides egress only circulation within limited space and organize through HXTs signage and conduits for a clutter free Business Center at each control area.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.2 KEY TO BUSINESS CENTER/ CONTROL AREA COMPONENTS AFAS ADA Farecard Access System AFC Automated Fare Control AOG Agent Operated Gate AOT Agent Operated Turnstile AVC Audio Visual Controller (Help Point monitors) CCTV Closed Circuit TV Camera CIC Customer Information Center Fig. 2: CIS Customer Information Screen Agent Operated EBCS Emergency Booth Turnstile, AFC Communication System Electronic Turnstiles EEG Emergency Exit Gate EG Exit Gate ET Electronic Turnstile HEET High Entrance/Exit Turnstile HP Help Point HXT High Exit Turnstile IPIC Interactive Passenger Information Center LT Low Turnstile and End Con- sole MEM Metrocard Express Machine Fig. 3: MCR MetroCard Reader Business Center MVM MetroCard Vending Machine 5th Avenue Station OG Overhead Gate (N,R) Manhattan PA Public Address system SB Service Booth TEL Public Telephone

Fig. 4: High Exit Turnstiles (HXTS) AFC Railings, Medallion design

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.3 LINE OF CONTROL

The fare array at all control areas shall be designed as a system of components sized to ﬁ t into a 13'-6" module, a distance determined by typical subway column spacing. Under certain limited conditions where observabil- ity for security, architectural or artwork considerations mandate, a "transparent zone" may be considered. It is under- stood that the typical application of stainless steel AFC railing is preferable.

The transparent zone may extend beyond the fare array bank by a minimum of one module to either side, or to the nearest architectural element (Refer to Figures 7 and 8). Beyond the transparent zone, ornamental metal railings may be installed to enclose the rest of the paid area. The fare array and steel Fig. 7: barriers establish an "entrance" identity Diagram showing extent of transparent composed of similar AFC components, zone at a monitored separate from the existing architectural fare array. features of a station.

In all control areas, the fi rst low turnstile nearest the agent booth or the fi rst low turnstile located at the right end of the control line, viewing from the unpaid area, shall be agent operated. For ease of identifi cation, it shall have an approved distinct color signage.

All low turnstiles, including the agent operated turnstile, shall be capable of two-way operation and accept MetroCards.

Fig. 8: Diagram showing fare array at part-time control area.

Fig. 6: Line of Control, Newkirk Avenue Station, Brooklyn

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.4 AFC RAILINGS FARE ARRAY CAPACITY Railings are installed at the line of control to separate the paid and unpaid zones. The number of low turnstiles, HEETs, AFC Railings with the Medallion design HXTs, and Service Gates provided in are to be installed at IRT/BMT station each Control Area shall be adequate for rehabilitations. AFC Railings with the customer access and safe evacuation Wave design are to be installed at IND during an emergency; the existing exit stations. Where the railing barriers be- capacity must not be reduced. The yond the line of control require extensive minimum number of low turnstiles shall replacement and/or existing railings are be three. Access and egress through in good repair, the designer should con- turnstiles should be supplemented sult the NYCT as to whether or not AFC through Service Gates if required. railings will be installed as part of the station rehabilitation. The number of turnstiles required for normal fl ow is determined by the BARRIERS following formula (see below for Part-time control areas require a barrier description of each factor): across the low turnstiles when the agent is not present. A stainless steel bi-fold Number of gate shall be used at such times, to close Modifi ed Peak Volume turnstiles = entry through the electronic turnstiles. Modifi ed Capacity This gate will be transparent, durable and required consistent with other fare array material fi nishes. Where existing conditions do * Modifi ed Peak Volume - The sum not permit the use of bi-fold gate, a roll- of the peak hour volume counts for down barrier shall be used. exiting customers and counts for all entries (paid and unpaid) during the If the control area is accessible via HEET same time period is the total volume. (High Entry/Exit Turnstile) when the Adjust the total volume by doubling agent is not present, the barrier shall be the fi gure to account for potential on the unpaid side of the turnstiles. If the future growth and equipment fail- control area is completely closed when ures. The resulting fi gure is the the agent is not present, the barrier shall modifi ed peak volume. All design be on the paid side of the array. capacities for turnstiles are based on 15 minutes peak volume. Barriers are not required at the control line if stair gates at the street and platform • Modifi ed Capacity - Modify turnstile levels prevent access to the fare array capacity (30 customers per minute) of a Partially Staffed or Part Time Fully by a reduction factor of 20% to com- Staffed control area. Such street and pensate for counter fl ow. platform level gates shall be equipped with manual keylocks.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.5 STATION AGENT BOOTH number of MVMs provided are based on a matrix developed for every station It is anticipated that the booth of the future Control Area with a minimum of two in will be a station agent booth, staffed by case of failure of one unit; the designer a customer service agent, who provides should consult the scope for the ac- information and assistance for users of tual number of MVMs required. MVMs the transit system, in addition to perform- should be located against a wall allowing ing other tasks. After the AFC Program easy access without interrupting the is fully implemented, the existing token fl ow of customer traffi c. MVMs should booth, which currently sells fare media, not be located against AFC Railings, may serve as a station agent booth for a mosaics, or where they obstruct a clear period of time, until new booths become line of vision. Preferably, locate MVMs a available. minimum of 6' from public telephones to preserve privacy and a minimum of 10' Planning for a station agent booth should from an agent booth door for security. include relocating the existing booth to its optimum position, in-line with the fare array. The in-line location should HELP POINTS anticipate the probable change from the existing 6'x6' or 6'x12' booth or kiosk Help Points permit customers to commu- to a booth at least 8'x8', that will serve nicate with a Station Agent for informa- customers in both the free and the paid tion and in an emergency. The Help Point area, from its central location along the consists of a Talk-Back Intercom, and a fare line. A carefully considered con- Verizon telephone for '911' emergency duit path, embedded conduit raceway calls, Informational Brochures, system with suffi cient spare capacity for future map and enhanced lighting. Provide a needs, and point of service entry into Help Point for each group of MVMs in the existing and future booth, should be other than Fully Staffed and Part Time incorporated into the station rehabilita- Fully Staffed Control Areas tion, so that newly installed fl oors and walls do not have to be ripped up for the future booth. HIGH ENTRY/EXIT TURNSTILES Note: The agent booth should not be (HEET) relocated to tile the fl oor underneath the A HEET will provide both access and booth, if it is not required by the design egress. The full-height rotary turnstile change of the control area. precludes fare evasion through stainless steel arms that allow only individual use. Refer to the section on Phasing in Chap- The design entry rate of a HEET is 20 ter 3, Agent Booths, for information on persons per minute (ppm). The design refurbishment, equipment to be removed exiting rate of a HEET is 40 ppm. There and new equipment to be installed, to shall be a minimum of 2 HEETs and a enable existing booths to serve as interim maximum of 5 HEETs in a fare array agent booths. computed to address peak customer fl ow characteristics.

METROCARD VENDING HIGH EXIT TURNSTILES (HXT) MACHINES (MVM) A HXT will permit only egress in a Con- MetroCard fare media are available for trol Area. The full-height rotary turnstile purchase from MVMs located in the is single-directional with stainless steel unpaid zone of the Control Area. MVMs arms that allow individual use. are 82" (H) x 42" (W) x 26" (D). The

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.6 EMERGENCY PANIC BAR EXIT CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION GATES (CCTV) A Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) A customer operated emergency panic system should be installed to monitor bar system provides additional exit and provide security to personnel and capacity to allow customers to use equipment in Partially Staffed, Unstaffed normally locked control line gates to and Exit Only Control Areas. These evacuate from subway stations in the Control Areas shall have up to four ﬁ xed event of an emergency. The push bars mount color CCD cameras with varifocal allow customers on the paid side to exit lens, strategically located to maximize through the gates during an emergency surveillance of the areas typically in without waiting for assistance from NYC view of a Station Agent. These cameras Transit personnel. When the gate is enclosed in vandal-resistant housings opened, an alarm sounds to alert the should have in their view the MVMs, AFC station agent, that the gate has been turnstiles, HEETs, Remote Controlled opened. Customers with strollers, carts Service Gates and Help Points. The or other bulky items should request monitoring equipment shall consist of an assistance to open the agent operated Audio/Visual Console Display including gates from the paid side by the station scroll-type color monitor and a recording agent. All gates located along the fare device. All cameras shall be automati- array including HEET and HXT only cally triggered by motion detectors; the control areas are to have panic bar camera viewing the Help Point shall have equipment installed. a monitoring override when the Talk-Back Intercom is activated. Cameras shall be monitored at the Fully Staffed Station METROCARD READER (MCR) Agent Booth in the station. This Talk- A MetroCard Reader shall be provided Back system shall be interconnected to in the unpaid zone of each Control Area the station EBCS system. to permit a customer to determine the remaining balance on the MetroCard. Closed circuit television systems are METROCARD EXPRESS now installed in conjunction with eleva- MACHINE (MEM) tors to provide customer assistance. Fixed mount color CCD cameras with Allocate space in the unpaid zone of the varifocal lens are installed strategically control area for the MetroCard Express to maximize surveillance of elevator Machine which permit a customer to use. Cameras are installed to monitor add value to the remaining balance on entry and exit from an elevator cab at the MetroCard. street, mezzanine and platform levels and inside the cab elevator. A ﬂ at panel ADA FARECARD ACCESS SYSTEM color monitor is installed in the booth to (AFAS) view the various areas being observed by the CCTV cameras. A Digital Video A gate installed in a fare array to provide Recorder (DVR) is installed in the Com- access to wheelchair users. The gate is munications Room to record a time- operated either remotely by the Station lapsed footage from the CCTV cameras. Agent from the booth or with a MetroCard The talk-back intercom in the booth shall at AFAS card readers on the paid and have an override feature that will lock-in unpaid sides of the gate. This system the camera location on the monitor when shall be installed at the Fully Staffed a button is activated by the agent in the Control Areas of stations with elevator booth or lock-in the camera location on access to the street and platforms.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.7 the monitor when a button is activated by a customer requesting assistance. As part of the CCTV system a digital video recorder is installed ideally in the Communications room for archive reference.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.8 SUMMARY OF AFC COMPONENTS

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.9 FULLY STAFFED CONTROL AREA Typical Station Plan (Houston Street/Broadway - 7th Avenue)

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.10 TYPICAL CONTROL AREA BUSINESS CENTER

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.11 PARTIALLY STAFFED CONTROL AREA Typical Station Plan (Houston Street/Broadway - 7th Avenue)

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.12 UNSTAFFED CONTROL AREA Typical Station Plan (Houston Street/Broadway - 7th Avenue)

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.13 REFERENCES ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE DISABLED ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT SECURITY

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS - 12.14 FLOORS

INTRODUCTION Type I: Granite Tile Providing new fl oor fi nishes results in cleaner, brighter stations which are Granite tiles shall be installed in the perceived by the public as more attractive public areas of underground stations. and secure. New floors facilitate The designer may choose from a maintenance and reduce vandalism. standard palette of a colors shown in All of these factors generate confi dence Fig. 1. in the Transit System and increase For mezzanine areas, where it has been ridership. determined that the existing concrete FLOOR CRITERIA slab is in good condition and does not require replacement, the existing slab New fl oor fi nishes are standardized by shall be scarifi ed and a thinset tile type to limit inventory, reduce costs, installment shall be provided. simplify cleaning and facilitate repair. Selection of a new fi nish takes the Type II: Porcelain Ceramic Tile following factors into account: Porcelain ceramic tiles in a safety yellow * durability color shall be confi gured with truncated * safety domes as specifi ed by the ADA. * ease of maintenance and repair They shall be used for all platform * life cycle costs edge warning strips in underground * appearance stations.

All interior station fl oors are subject to treatment including platforms, Type III: Composite Tactile Warning mezzanines, passageways, and control Panel areas. Composite tactile panels 24" x 48" safety yellow warning strips. These panels All fl oor materials shall conform to consist of composition epoxy polymer Authority specifications and match with aluminum oxide or other additive. approved samples for color, size, fi nish They shall be used for all platform and texture. edge warning strips in above ground stations. MATERIAL TYPES: Refer to Figure 1 for product standards. Type IV: Poured Concrete All manufacturers listed are for reference Poured concrete shall be applied, where only. required, to repair or replace deteriorated concrete slabs, to replace lightweight concrete fi ll and for resurfacing. The slab thickness for resurfacing must be 2" minimum and shall have a fi ne broom fi nish. Poured concrete may be used at above ground, on grade and embankment stations subject to rehabilitation.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.1 MATERIAL TYPES Fig. 1: Type Product Size Color Floor material types - refer to text for descriptions. Manufacturers listed I 1. Krystal White are for reference Granite Natural 11 3/4" x 11 3/4" (Miller Druck) only. Tile Granite 3/4" thk 2. White Pearl (Miller Druck) 3. Solar Red (Miller Druck) 4. Earth Black (Alpstone Inc.)

II Caesar Ceramica 11 7/8" x 11 7/8" Safety Yellow Porcelain 9/16" thk Ceramic Federal Spec No. Tile 23-780

III Composite 24" x 48" Safety Yellow Compos- Copolymer 3/16" thk (Standard of the Federal ite Panel Highway Administration) Tactile Warning Panel

IV Poured 2" to 3" thick Grey Concrete Concrete

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.2 PLATFORM WARNING STRIP At platforms in underground stations, the warning strip shall consist of two rows of 12" x12" yellow, porcelain ceramic tiles with truncated domes conﬁ gured according to the requirements of the A.D.A. Refer to Figure 2 for arrangement.

At platforms on above ground stations, the warning strip shall be 24" x 48" panels of a yellow composite copolymer with truncated domes conﬁ gured according to the requirements of the A.D.A. Refer to Figure 3 for arrangement.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress in 1990 to provide equal access for the disabled Fig. 2: in public accommodations, including Warning strip detail at platforms with tile transportation. This law requires ﬂ ooring. the provision of a surface ﬁ nish of contrasting texture and color as a warning at platform edges.

FLOOR PATTERNS Floor patterns may be applied on platforms, mezzanines and passageways. Two colors for patterns, as selected from Group I of the Material Types table on page 13.2, shall be used. Patterns shall respect and be coordinated with the existing column grid.

On platforms, where the platform warning strip and generally narrow conditions prevail, a single color choice shall be used. See figures 4-7.

RAMPS Floors with slopes above 3% shall have Fig. 3: Warning strip detail a coeffi cient of friction (COF) of not at exterior concrete less than 0.8. Ramps of concrete shall platforms. be broom fi nished. Ramps in stations to receive porcelain ceramic tile fl oors shall receive porcelain ceramic tile with a thermal fi nish.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.3 SIDE PLATFORMS

Fig. 4: Floor tile pattern for platforms greater than 12' wide.

Fig. 5: Floor tile pattern for platforms narrower than 12' wide.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.4 ISLAND PLATFORMS

Fig. 6: Floor tile pattern for island platforms greater than 24' wide.

Fig. 7: Floor tile pattern for island platforms narrower than 24' wide.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.5 ISLAND PLATFORMS

Fig. 8: Concrete ﬂ oor pattern for platforms greater than 24' wide. Joint lines should center on columns and ﬂ ags should be approximately 3'-0" on each side. Provide expansion joints in new concrete floor topping where they presently exist in structural slab.

Fig. 9: Concrete ﬂ oor pattern for platforms narrower than 24' wide. Joint lines should center on columns and flags should be approximately 3'-0" on each side. Provide expansion joints in new concrete floor topping where they presently exist in structural slab.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.6 SIDE PLATFORMS

Fig. 10: Concrete ﬂ oor pattern for platforms greater than 24' wide. Joint lines should center on columns and ﬂ ags should be approximately 3'-0" on each side. Provide expansion joints in new concrete floor topping where they presently exist in structural slab.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.7 REFERENCES COLOR ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE DISABLED

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 FLOORS - 13.8 FURNITURE, FIXTURES & EQUIPMENT

INTRODUCTION

The presence of furniture, fixtures and equipment in the public areas of stations provide many customer amenities and have a marked effect on the visual environment of stations. This chapter will outline the general requirements, use and placement of the specific elements described below. Any elements not mentioned here, whether proposed or required, should be reviewed and coordinated with the NYCT. The Transit Museum must have the opportunity to Fig. 1: ascertain the historic value of any ele- Seating bench and trash receptacle. ments not to be retained in the station 5th Ave. Station, design, and may wish to salvage such Manhattan elements for its collections.

FURNITURE

Seating Benches Seating benches in the system will be made of wood. All wood edges will be rounded (1/2" radius) and sanded. The finish will be a dark mahogany stain. All adhesive finishes and bolts, etc., should be able to withstand exterior weather conditions for use in above ground stations.

When installing benches, provide proper detailing so that they can be permanently anchored to the floor. Clear- ance between the wall and the bench will be 6-12 inches. Final determination of bench locations should be coordinated with the recommendations of the signage and maintenance section of the NYCT Station Department.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.1 FIXTURES Clocks Advertising clocks currently occur Agent Booths throughout the system. The design has Agent Booths are typically free standing been recently updated. Refer to MTA and self-contained glass and stainless Real Estate Operations for the latest steel elements in the unpaid area. They Advertising clock design. primarily house NYCT agents who provide a variety of customer services as well Concessions as furnishings and equipment necessary Concessions are a vital source of to those services. A detailed description revenue for the transit system. When of the requirements and guidelines for a concession is part of a station reha- these booths is provided in the chapter bilitation, it must be submitted to MTA/ entitled, AGENT BOOTHS. Real estate Operations for review of its proposed location. Further, any Art proposed concession must be designed Art in the public areas of stations will in accordance with the guidelines in the be included in selected station rehabi- chapter on CONCESSIONS. litations. Art work is chosen by a com- mittee under the guidance of the MTA Conductor Boards Arts for Transit. The design, configura- Conductor Boards are located on tion, and materials of any given design platforms and are used by NYCT train must comply with the NYCT design conductors to confirm the appropriate and safety standards. The designer stopped position of the train so that should consult with Arts for Transit and the doors can be safely opened. They the selected artist on matters relating are black and white porcelain enamel to lighting, installation, placement and graphic signs. They must be pendant location of the artwork. For information mounted from ceilings at a horizontal on the design guidelines philosophy distance of 1'-6" from the platform edge. and policy on artwork, see the chapter Where existing conditions do not per- on ARTS FOR TRANSIT. mit ceiling mounting, they may be wall mounted, but must never be mounted to Advertising Panels obstruct the existing mosaic and/or tile Advertising panels are an important band on the walls of a station. amenity in stations for both their revenue and visual interest. Two types of panels are being used in the system: paper BIKE RACKS panels and illuminated panels. They may be located both on station platform Consideration should be given (on a and mezzanine walls. For a detailed case by case basis) to providing bike discussion of the requirements for their racks in the vicinity of station entrances. size, placement and approved locations NYCT's Program Coordination group in public areas, see the design guidelines will assist in obtaining concurrence chapter on ADVERTISING. from NYC Department of Transporta- tion (DOT).

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.2 CUSTOMER INFORMATION Railings and Gates SCREENS (CIS) Railings in stations serve primarily to separate the paid and unpaid areas of The type of information displayed on, and the station. Gates are part of the fare the density and placement of CIS units, array railing system, and allow passage varies by location. See the chapter on in either direction to and from paid and GRAPHICS AND SIGNAGE for unpaid areas. The kinds of gates in the additional information. system are as follows:

informational signage 1. Agent Operated Gates (AOG) Informational Signage guides customer 2. High Exit Turnstiles (HXT) safely and efficiently through the Tran- 3. Emergency Panic Bar Exit- sit System. A detailed discussion of Gates all requirements for such signage is 4. gates at Part-time Stair available in the chapter on GRAPHICS Entrances & SIGNAGE. 5. Security Gates for Part-time Control Areas Light Fixtures 6. High Entrance / Exit For a detailed discussion of prototype Turnstiles (HEET) light fixtures and related requirements, see the chapter on LIGHTING. The materials for railings and gates are stainless steel. There are two designs customer Information for railings and gates: Medallion (for use Center in the IRT/BMT lines); Wave (for use in the IND). Reference the related details The customer Information Center (CIC) in the chapter on FARE ARRAY, CON- is typically found in the unpaid areas TROL & BARRIERS in this manual for near the fare array and controls. A typi- further information. cal CIC display consists of Passenger Information Units. Where available wall Security Mirrors space does not permit complete installation of the CIC display, the following Security mirrors are semi-spherical order of priority should be followed: devices placed to provide visual access to spaces that cannot be seen directly. 1. Guide-a-Ride Map(s) They will be located in stair landings 2. System Map and other public areas of stations where 3. Neighborhood Maps indirect visual access provides addi- 4. Notice Board tional security for anyone using such 5. Bus Maps a space.

Provide at least one system map in STATION PLAQUE the paid area, preferably in or near the waiting area. The designer should use All rehabilitated stations are to receive good judgement in locating one or more a wall mounted plaque, located in each system maps in the station relative to the unpaid control area. See Fig. 2 for size of the station and the length of the information to be inscribed on plaque. platforms. Coordinate the final location for the CIC and system map(s) in the paid area with the NYCT Stations Depart- ment. For a further discussion of this fixture and its required locations, see the chapter on GRAPHICS & SIGNAGE.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.3 Fig. 2: Dedication Plaque Layout

PLAQUE SPECIFICATIONS:

1. The plaque shall be cast aluminum. 2. Letter faces and border shall be raised and have satin polished faces and mette finished sides. Background shall be enameled. Enamel color to be dark brown and approved by the engineer. 3. Letter size and style shall be as shown and submitted to the engineer for approval. 4. Border style as shown. 5. The entire plaque shall have sprayed clear lacquer finish.

6. MOUNTING METHODS:

a. Rosette style "R77" (5/8") as manufactured by matthews Bronze Division - Architectural products or approved equal.

b. Mounting type "RM" for rosettes. Secure with expansion sleeve and expansion bolts to brick, stone or cement using rosette covers.

c. Set the plaque flush with the adjacent tile.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.4 Trash Receptacles Closed Circuit Television Trash receptacles shall be fabricated (CCTV) of painted galvanized steel. Receptacles This equipment is used by agents of the are cylindrical in shape, 24" in diameter NYCT as a security device to monitor and 46.5" in height. There is a 1'-0" public areas of the station. It is also diameter central opening cut into the used by conductors as a safety device to domed top of the receptacle. A key- monitor customers safe entry and exit to less, tamper resistant stainless steel lock and from trains and platforms especially will be furnished to open the receptacle on curved platforms. container for maintenance. CCTV equipment is generally pendant Trash receptacle installation should mounted from ceilings in or near agent provide for floor anchorage. Receptacles booths, and at platforms edges, track are to be placed near seating benches side. Monitors in agent booths are CRT and on platforms and/or mezzanines, screen type units. The designer must in locations where proper usage is consider the physical layout of each encouraged. Final locations will be specific station to be rehabilitated as well based on the recommendations of the as coordinate recommendations from maintenance section of the Stations the Maintenance of Way Department, Department. NYPD Transit Bureau, Stations Division, Rapid Transit Operations (RTO) and the BOLLARDS Office of System Safety in determining Bollards, where required to prevent final locations for cameras and monitors. damage from automobile traffic, should See the COMMUNICATIONS chapter be 18 to 24 inches in the clear from the for further details. face of curb, should be no more than 30 inches tall and no less than 48 inches in the clear between bollards laterally. Security bollards must be approved by NYPD. Bollards on Parks property need approval from DPR, on DOT property approval by that Department.

Equipment METROCARD Vending Machines (MVMs) These machines, under the Automated Fare Control Program, are currently being installed in all stations and are used to dispense fare media to customers. They are installed in the unpaid zones of a station, and serve to expedite the transition from tokens to fare cards. In addition MetroCard reader machines (MCR) and the MetroCard Express Machines (MEM) are located in the unpaid zone of the control area in the Fig. 3: vicinity of the MVM. Reference the Close-up of MVMs chapter on FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS & BARRIERS for further information.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.5 Conduit *Closed-to-the-public/non public areas Conduits are used throughout stations *Void areas to provide many services including but *Abandoned mezzanines or platforms not limited to those listed below: *Under platform overhangs

*Ventilation shafts *Closed Circuit Television *Under station structures (elevated * Emergency Call and Alarms stations) * Power for Concessions *Above existing hung or suspended * Power for Stations ceilings * Power for Backup * Public Address Systems * Power for Escalators & Elevators 3. Conduit installations exposed to * Radio Antenna public view: * Telephones Where conduits cannot be concealed * Signal Cable from public view, they must be located so as to minimize their visual impact. The Design Manager must coordinate all conduit designs by the different disciplines to ensure that the conduit PLATFORM LEVEL installations on any particular project comply with the requirements of this At platform level conduits runs shall be section. It is extremely important located, in order of preference: that the designer make every effort to conceal conduits from public view where * On the track side of light fixtures that practicable and minimize the visual are located near or adjacent to the impact of conduits which must be located platform edge. exposed to public view. * Inside the knee braces of columns located between two tracks. The Design Manager must also ensure * Where these locations are not practi- that conduit designs for his/her project cable, conduits may be located on the are coordinated with other projects that track side of the column arrays near or may be planned or may be in progress at adjacent to the platform edge. the same station, to minimize the impact to the station environment. * Where this location is not practicable, then alternative locations may be con- The basic steps to accomplish this goal sidered with the support and approval are outlined below: of Program Coordination Station Clear- inghouse. Every effort shall be made to 1. Review and approval of conduit de- minimize the visual impact on the station signs and installations: environment.

All conduit designs and installations shall be reviewed and approved by the Station Clearinghouse unit of Program Coordination.

2. Conduit installations out of public view:

Conduits shall be concealed from the public where practicable. Conduits shall be routed through:

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.6 Public Address Speakers MEZZANINE LEVEL These speakers provide the means for making announcements in stations to On mezzanines conduit runs shall be the public. They are located in the light located: fixture housing for stations. A more detailed discussion about these speakers * Along and tight to girders, cross can be found in the chapter on beams or columns arrays and following LIGHTING and COMMUNICATIONS. the contour of the ceiling to the extent practicable. Power Panels 4. Conduit installations not allowed Wherever possible, electrical power panels must be located in related Conduits shall not be routed: equipment rooms or places outside of the public areas of the station. * On platform walls, mezzanine walls Requirements for these panels or stair walls are discussed in the chapters on * Attached to or obscuring mosaics, art- ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS and work, station names, or other significant COMMUNICATIONS. architectural or artistic features SpACE HEATERS * Under hung or suspended ceilings Provide space heaters at customer * Under light fixtures, visual signs or waiting areas in control areas servicing architectural elements above ground, embankment and open- * Core drilling into rooms through mosa- cut stations. ics, artworks, station names, terracotta plates, molding, and decorative elements is prohibited Train Annunciators * Below the minimum allowed headroom These are LED message crawl displays clearance of 6'l-8". which provide real time information to passengers. This equipment is dis- 5. Additional Guidance cussed in the COMMUNICATIONS chapter. * Conduit transitions around beams shall be routed as tight to the beams Telephones as practicable For stations undergoing full rehabilitation * Multiple conduits shall be grouped or component construction, payphones tight together should not be reinstalled unless abso- * Conduits shall be routed adjacent to lutely necessary for security reasons, existing conduits only if those conduits ADA compliance or other circum- comply with the current guidelines. stances deemed critical by NYC Transit * Efforts shall be made to identify and Authority. Their location will be on a remove all abandoned conduits prior station by station basis and the designer to the installation of new conduits, par- must coordinate final locations with the ticularly above escalators, stairs and NYCT Stations Department. Refer to passageways connecting different levels the chapter on ACCESSIBILITY FOR in the stations THE DISABLED. * All conduits and supporting brackets must be painted to match the surrounding surfaces.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.7 Turnstiles, Electronic (ETS) These are automated turnstiles designed to accept fare card media and permit the passage between unpaid and paid areas. Also see the chapter on FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.8 references ADVERTISING AGENT BOOTHS ARTS FOR TRANSIT CONCESSIONS COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS GRAPHICS AND SIGNAGE LIGHTING SCHEDULE OF AFC EQUIPMENT SIGNALS STATION CLEARINGHOUSE GUIDELINES

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 furniture, FIXTURES & equipment - 14.9 graphics & signage INTRODUCTION Informational graphics and signage for the New York City Transit System shall conform to the MTA Sign Manual. That document establishes comprehensive guidelines for the standardization and placement of signage throughout the system.

Coordinate with the Office of Station Signage, Division of Stations for the latest MTA Sign Manual requirements.

NYCT Design Manual august 2012 graphics & signage - 15.1 LIGHTING

INTRODUCTION

This chapter on lighting provides basic lamps. Generally, single-lamp luminaires information on lighting principles, fixture shall be used. In areas where greater types and preferred lighting layouts, illumination levels are required (ie, control including the placement of emergency areas,benches,maps),two-lamp lighting fixtures and speakers in the public luminaires shall be used. areas of stations. The material presented here must be used in conjuction with the Color-improved fluorescent lamps will be more comprehensive CPM Division of used to provide a superior quality lighting Engineering Services, Design Guideline environment, rendering all lighted DG-254, Auxiliary Electrical Power, surfaces true to color. These fluorescent Lighting and Controls, Engineering lamps have a triphosphor coating that Design Criteria and Guidelines, which is provides a 3500oK color temperature and provided to all NYCT design consultants a minimum Color Rendering Index of 70.

In addition to providing a sense of A point source luminaire may be used in security, the lighting systems in subway stations where high ceilings or other stations should be durable, energy special conditions warrant the use of efficient, and easily maintained. Lighting such a direct/indirect pendant mounted should respond to the given architectural point source fixture. At elevated stations, conditions and be coordinated with other beyond the canopied platform areas, a elements of stations. goose-neck type pole mounted fixture will be utilized. Special fixtures proposed In stations receiving artwork, lighting for use must be approved by NYCT. should be incorporated to enhance the Lamps will be subject to testing and artwork and shall be coordinated with meeting the required performance MTA Arts for Transit and the artist. specifications of the NYCT.

ENTRANCES

All K1 and KA station entrance railings shall be provided with ornamental globe Fig. 1: Lighting Fixtures luminaires having either a red or green Parallel to the top half and a frosted lower half. Additional trackway, 5th Ave lighting provided by the street entrance Station, Manhattan stairway lights shall enhance the illumination at entry stairs. See the chapter on ENTRANCES.

FIXTURES

Fluorescent lighting fixtures shall be used as the primary source of lighting in stations. They will be shielded to reduce glare, so that the lighted area is more apparent than the lighting source.

Light fixtures shall incorporate a standard extrusion which can be adapted to varying mounting conditions and layouts. This extrusion can house either one or two

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.1 LAYOUTS

BELOW GROUND STATIONS ABOVE GROUND STATIONS

Lighting should be coordinated with ceiling Lighting layouts for above ground station and structural systems. Layouts should platform areas will be coordinated with follow the reflected ceiling plans in Figures ceilings, exterior canopies and structural 10 - 12. Layouts for mezzanines should systems. Layouts should follow the relate to the ceiling coffer, if it exists. reflected ceiling plans illustrated in Figs. 13 - 14. Many of the head houses, Lighting parallel to the trackway and mezzanines and stair enclosures at above inboard from the platform edge is preferred ground stations were originally designed for platforms. Where required, with unique architectural characteristics supplemental lighting fixtures may be such as high, articulated ceilings, installed perpendicular to the track and dormers and skylights. These unique centered over the platform. Lighting spaces may utilize HID point source light system components parallel to the track fixtures in a station rehabilitation. Where should be located between the column head houses, mezzanines and covered line and the platform wall, well away from stairs have low, flat ceilings, the designer the platform edge. If there is no line of should follow the fixture and layout columns or trackway beam near the guidelines for below ground stations. platform edge, the fixture line should be located 3' from the platform edge.

Where ceiling conditions permit, pendant hung direct/indirect luminaires may be used. Generally, the luminaire should not extend below the coffer and the bottom of pendant hung luminaires should align with the bottom of the ceiling coffers. At low ceilings, luminaires should be surface mounted. If a direct/indirect luminaire is used with a lens, then a clear lens should also be used on the top of the fixture.

Vandal resistant fixtures must be provided where special protection is required against breakage and vandalism such as at street stairs, passageways leading to street stairs, under-platform canopies and all other areas where there is less than 7'0" clearance.

A supplemental fluorescent wallwash luminaire shielded to prevent glare, shall be used on island platform stations to Fig. 2: illuminate the opposite track wall when Fixture placement, that wall has a ceramic tile finish. Similar Elevated station, Weschester lighting shall be provided on the opposite Square, Bronx side of two island platform stations to maintain a uniform light level on both sides of the island platform.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.2 LIGHTING LAYOUT EXAMPLE A: BELOW GROUND STATIONS

Fig. 9: Reflected Ceiling Layout Plan A Side Platform/ Below Ground Stations

Fixtures arranged parallel to trackway Supplemental fixtures at control areas,stairs, escalators and elevators.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.3 LIGHTING LAYOUT EXAMPLE B: BELOW GROUND STATIONS

Fig. 10: Reflected Ceiling Layout Plan B - Island Platform/ Below Ground Stations

Fixtures arranged parallel to trackway. Supplemental light fixtures at Control areas, stairs, escalators and elevators

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.4 LIGHTING LAYOUT EXAMPLE C: BELOW GROUND STATIONS

Fig. 11: Reflected Ceiling Layout Plan C - Island Platform/ Below Ground Stations

Fixtures arranged parallel to trackway. Supplemental fixtures at control areas, stairs, escalators and elevators.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.5 LIGHTING LAYOUT EXAMPLE D: ABOVE GROUND STATIONS

Fig. 12: Reflected Ceiling Layout Plan D- Side Platform/ Above Ground Stations

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.6 LIGHTING LAYOUT EXAMPLE E: ABOVE GROUND STATIONS

Fig. 13: Reflected Ceiling Layout Plan E- Island Platforms/ Above Ground Stations

Fluorescent Fixtures spacing as shown.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.7 INTEGRATED SYSTEMS

WIREWAY SYSTEM A common wireway system shall be used to contain and organize the wiring In above ground stations, the wireway requirements for normal and emergency system is typically exposed; the circuit wiring for all lighting, power and designer should organize the wireway so communication equipment in the sta- that it is integrated with the canopy tion. structure at exterior platforms

The wireway shall be extruded aluminum EMERGENCY LIGHTING and shall have multiple removable covers providing easy access to individual An emergency lighting system con- wiring compartments. Single access sisting of DC powered vandal resistant covers will not be acceptable. Wireways fluorescent fixtures shall be integrated shall be run straight wherever possible. into the lighting design at all stations. Wiring designs shall accommodate perpendicular as well as continous run luminaire layout designs, but shall never run along a finished wall. All other systems that cannot be routed via common wireway system shall be organized into one of the three lettered areas indicated in Figure 14.

Fig. 14: Schematic wireway diagram concept:

Lettered areas indicate wireway route zones. Pen- dant mounted fixtures are shown supplied by continuous wireway .

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.8 Where the structural configuration of PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM the ceilings prohibits the inclusion of the DC emergency element in the The public address system is an es- luminaire design, a separate emer- sential means of communication be- gency fixture combined with the PA tween NYCT and the riding public. In system speaker, using the standard this chapter, design principles are given extrusion, shall be utilized spaced at for integrating public address system 15' (plus or minus) on center. The speakers with the prototypical lighting emergency power supply shall be de- design and layouts. For a more detaied rive its source from the 600-volt DC discussion on the public address sys- system and will drive the emergency tem, see the chapter on COMMUNI- lighting component. The emergency CATIONS. lights should be provided throughout the station areas including all rooms, Speakers shall be incorporated into spaced an average distance of 15' the separate compartment provided O.C. They shall provide 1-foot candle within the light fixture. Spacing of minimum, with a 40:1 ratio as mea- speakers shall be on a 5'-0" module, sured at the floor level of all means of with the optimum spacing at 15'-0" to egress areas throughout platforms 20'-0" between speaker centers. Ref- and mezzanines. The egress path erence Figures 15, 16. For side plat- shall be the width of the egress stair- forms, a straight line arrangement of way. Locate emergency fixtures at speakers is the preferred layout. Where the head, all landings and at the bot- side platforms are greater than 18'-0" tom off all egress stairways. Emer- wide, speaker locations outside of the gency lighting should be concentrated luminaire may be used. Refer to Fig- at exit points to produce 5-foot candles. ure 17. For island platforms greater See Figures 15-18 for typical emer- than 20'-0" wide, a diagonal arrange- gency lighting layouts. ment of loud speakers is the best layout. See Figure 18. For above Emergency lighting shall be provided ground stations, speakers will be pro- in head houses, mezzanines, and ex- vided at mezzanines and in the areas terior platforms within the extent of the where the platform is covered. While canopies. No DC emergency lighting individual speakers will obviously not is required outside the canopied areas be integrated into point source light of elevated and open cut stations. fixtures, they should be organized and integrated with the station structure SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS and architecture.

Every condition in the subway system has not been defined in this section. The emphasis of this guideline is to relate the lighting to the architecture. In addition, the lighting design should be organized and integrated to provide a quality environment.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.9 Fig. 15: Emergency lighting and speaker modules spaced every 15' O.C. for supplemental fixtures placed perpendicular to trackway.

Fig. 16: Emergency lighting and speaker modules spaced every 15' O.C. for fixtures placed parallel to trackway.

Speaker module Emergency light

Ballast

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.10 Fig. 17: Optional speaker locations when side platform is greater than 18' wide, and fixtures are placed parallel to the trackway.

Fig. 18: Central speaker locations when platform is greater than 20' wide, and fixtures are placed parallel to trackway.

Speaker module Emergency light

Ballast

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.11 REFERENCES ENTRANCES

TYPICAL DETAILS • Light Fixture Details Parallel to Platform • Light Fixture Details Perpendicular to Platform • Entrance Globe/Status Light • Bega Exterior Light Fixture

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 LIGHTING - 16.12 SECURITY & SAFETY

This chapter addresses the subjects of SECURITY CRITERIA SECURITY and SAFETY in stations. SECURITY is defi ned as the avoidance These guidelines incorporate adopted of traditional crime and a reduction in provisions for Medium/Low and Medium the risk of terrorism, while SAFETY is Protection Levels. The risk assessment considered the prevention of accidents for the specifi c station together with the MTA Security Design Workbook and fi res in the station environment. and Security Design Guide should be consulted during the scope development INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY process to determine if other protection levels are to be considered. Security is the sense of well-being, whether real or perceived, that a person Project documents must provide only is relatively safe from confrontation by the minimum amount of information the criminal element and the comfort necessary for the installation of all that, in such event, assistance will be elements required to meet force forthcoming. Personal security is a protection and must not contain any primary factor in improving the rapid information on protection methods, or transit system. information on design threats. This information is considered sensitive and force offi cial use only. Contact Security is not only the presence of designated NYCTA Security Offi cer for authority; it is also established by a further guidelines. subway environment which is designed to convey a sense of order and control. The following security measures shall Stations which are attractive, well be incorporated into the designs of all maintained, well illuminated, and which station rehabilitation projects: have clear lines of sight establish a sense of well being for subway riders. UNDERGROUND STATIONS: SECURITY ELEMENTS At stations requiring Medium/Low Elements of design or policy which Protection Levels: enhance the sense of security while • Doors and door hardware providing access to non-public spaces must minimizing the dependency on be equipped to prevent forced entry. mechanical equipment or technology ASTM Grade 30 or 40. including: At stations requiring Medium Protection Levels: •Maintain authority presence. • Doors and door hardware providing •Direct sight lines. access to non-public spaces must •Elimination of under-utilized public be equipped to prevent forced entry. areas. ASTM Grade 30 or 40. •Clustering of passengers in supervised • Fixed glass at Dispatcher's Offi ce areas. shall be ballistic resistant laminated •Deter fare evasion. safety glass UL Rating Level 3. •Well illuminated stations. •Vandal-resistant materials. ABOVE GROUND STATIONS: • Reduce exploitable spaces (i.e. hiding places) for successful secretion of At stations requiring Medium/Low suspicious packages/objects. Protection Levels: •Use materials that reduce Post- Explosive (Post IED) fragmentation. • Prevent unauthorized roof access from adjacent buildings by providing security chain link fencing, 12'-0" high minimum.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.1 • Doors and door hardware at roof access points and at points providing CUL-DE-SAC ELIMINATION access to non-public areas must be equipped to prevent forced entry. Install permanent enclosures to seal off STM Grade 30 or 40. areas and recessed spaces which may • Exterior windows at mezzanines be used by persons to hide. shall be laminated safety glass. ASTM Grade 30 or 40. VANDAL-RESISTANT LIGHTING FIXTURES At stations requiring Medium Protection Levels: Install vandal-resistant lighting fi xtures • Prevent unauthorized roof access to protect light fixtures and bulbs from adjacent buildings by providing security chain link fencing, 12'-0" from damage caused by vandalism. high. These should be used in locations • Doors and door hardware at roof of low headroom or where fi xtures access points and at points providing cannot be located out of reach such as access to non-public areas must be passageways, stairways and exterior equipped to prevent forced entry. platforms. ASTM Grade 30 or 40. • Provide blow-out panels to vent BOOTH STATUS INDICATOR exterior walls from inside. Panels LIGHTS can be combined with windows. Strengthen exterior walls for limited Install photocell-controlled, vandal- blast load, Level C. Example: resistant street level entrance stairway fi berglass mesh • Fixed glass at Dispatcher's Offi ce lights indicating the availability of full or shall be ballistic resistant laminated part-time booth agents. A green globe safety glass UL Rating Level 3. signifi es a full-time open control area and that an agent is on duty. A red globe alerts the customer to read the hours of SECURITY MEASURES operation notice and may signify that an agent is only available during restricted Equipment which improves security, hours, that the access is exit-only, or serving as deterrents to crime and that it is permanently closed. terrorism and contributing to customers’ perceived sense of security. PASSENGER INFORMATION SIGNAGE SECURITY GATES Porcelain enamel signs mounted Steel gates which deny access by on walls or suspended from ceilings unauthorized individuals to specific provide directional information. They are areas or permit access only at specifi ed positioned in decision-making locations hours. These gates permit closing to aid in fi nding stairways to platforms, passageways and stairs during off- transfer lines and exits. Proper signage peak times when ridership is less and maintains the fl ow of traffi c in the exposure to criminal attack could be direction of enhanced security and away greater. Gaps at top, bottom and sides from secluded and prohibited areas. must be less than 4-1/2". Coordinate keying with Department of Stations. • Must be replaced or added if missing. • Must be A.D.A. compliant. • Must be positioned so as not to create obstructions for PID cameras.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.2 SECURITY MIRRORS SECURE CONTROL AREA Install polished stainless steel mirrors so that riders can view anyone standing Elimination of slam gates and the around a corner or other area not directly introduction of AFC turnstiles, AFC gates and visible. railings. • Must have proper lighting in the PUBLIC TELEPHONES area. • Should be installed out of reach of Located on platforms and mezzanines vandals. with free “911” capability. Public • Location should be coordinated with telephone provided in the free area of architectural discipline and not be the mezzanine shall be located away installed over mosaics. from the agent booth door. • Location should not interfere with CCTV cameras. PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM

CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION Upgraded P.A. system with “real time” AND TALK-BACK INTERCOM capability. Used in conjunction with the customer information screen (CIS) Install video cameras and speaker where support for coordination between phones located at remote station areas PA and CIS is available. Refer to the with monitors at full-time agent booths. Chapter on Graphics and signage for The speaker phone is activated when additional information on CIS. a passenger presses the emergency assistance button; this activates the CCTV camera in the vicinity. These ELECTROMAGNETIC GATES "Help Points" are required at all waiting areas remote from Control Areas. All electromagnetic locked steel gates, whether located at stair entrances, at fare array or elsewhere in the station, shall TRAIN ARRIVAL ANNUNCIATORS unlock automatically in an emergency when activated by agent or Central This system alerts passengers with audio Control. and visual components of impending train arrivals and directs them to the proper platform. This minimizes OPEN RISERS passenger time on remote platforms and provides more secure areas near All new open stairs (where there are no the agent booth to await train. rooms beneath) shall have open risers of stainless steel mesh in a stainless CUSTOMER WAITING AREA steel frame to allow visibility through the stairway. See STAIRWAYS AND Located in paid section of full-time control RAILINGS chapter. area in view of agent and on platforms; including bench, annunciator, public telephone, system map, refuse container EMERGENCY LIGHTING and enhanced lighting. CCTV cameras should be trained on these areas. Provide redundant, backup power systems by two separate lighting circuits and 3rd rail capability.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.3 within 100 feet of a fi re hydrant. Hose GATES AT STAIRS valve cabinets shall be located so that all areas of the station platform are served. Provide steel gates at street stair A sound powered phone communication landings to permit the securing of control system shall be provided in all under- areas and to alert the customer at the ground stations. Phone jack-boxes shall earliest entry point to seek alternative be installed in all hose valve cabinets and system access. At full-time control areas, at all siamese connections to facilitate provide hasp in the wall or fl oor to secure fi re department communication. gates in the open position. In part-time control areas, provide electromagnetic Above Ground Stations Requiring Standpipe locks and hasp. Coordinate keying with System. Department of Stations. Myrtle Ave. Line: • Fresh Pond Road REMOVAL OF REFUSE BINS New Lots Line: AND SAND BOXES • Sutter Ave. - Rutland Road • Pennsylvania Ave. Relocate/remove all refuse bins and West End Line: sand boxes from the platform into • Ft. Hamilton Parkway dedicated locked spaces to eliminate • 71st Street hiding places. • 79th Street REMOVAL OF OBSTRUCTIONS Rockaway Line: • Beach 67th Street Remove obstructions in order to allow Pelham Line: for good environmental design providing • Pelham Bay Park clear sight-lines for surveillance and • Parkchester East 177th visibility. No sound powered phone communication system is required for above ground stations. The other requirement INTRODUCTION TO SAFETY for siamese connections are the same as for underground stations. Safety in a transit system is provided to ensure fi re prevention, passenger safety SPRINKLER SYSTEMS and employee protection. Many safety features are designed in accordance A sprinkler system is required for each with codes, rules, laws and guidelines of the following spaces: such as NFPA 130, the New York State Building Code, A.D.A. accessibility and • Escalator truss areas and escalator other requirements established by the machine rooms. Authority’s Offi ce of System Safety. • Refuse rooms greater than 100 square feet. FIRE PREVENTION • Concession areas greater than 200 square feet. FIRE STANDPIPE SYSTEM • Space as determined by NYCT Offi ce of System Safety. A dry fi re standpipe system is required for all underground stations and at the All sprinkler systems shall be designed above ground stations listed below. to conform to New York State and Na- The system shall consist of at least two tional Fire Protection Association codes siamese connections one at each end & standards. Where required, sprinkler of the station, with one located within 50 supply lines shall be heat traced and feet of the full time station entrance and insulated to protect against freezing.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.4 in the vicinity of the station full-time FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM IN control area shall monitor the EDR's, AGENT BOOTHS EPR's and Communication Rooms; local audiovisual alarms at the Refuse Room At the present time, all agent booths are shall be provided. Visual and audible equipped with a Halon fi re suppression indicators shall be provided to alert the system. All new agent booths to be token agent. constructed shall be equipped with a fi re suppression system that will utilize FIRE EXTINGUISHERS an extinguishing agent other than Halon when this other agent is developed and Fire extinguishers are provided to approved. Until this is developed, Halon permit NYCT employees to gain will continue to be utilized. access to them in the event of a fi re. Provide multipurpose, dry chemical FIRE RATED CONSTRUCTION extinguishers with 20A-120BC rating in all Agent Booths, Scrubber Rooms, Areas of stations susceptible to fi res and Refuse Rooms and Locker Rooms. all NYCT facilities abutting public area Provide carbon dioxide extinguishers shall have 2 hour fi re rated construction with 10BC rating in all EDRs, Electrical including 1 1/2 hour rated, labeled doors Panel Rooms, Elevator Machine which are self closing and positive Rooms, Escalator Machine Rooms and latching. All vents and louvers must be Communications Rooms. fi re-rated with fi re dampers provided with fusible links. Such spaces include: PASSENGER SAFETY • Refuse Rooms • Electrical Distribution Rooms EMERGENCY PANIC BAR • Electrical Panel Rooms EXIT GATES • Communication Rooms A customer operated emergency panic Ventilation systems provided in fi re rated bar system provides additional exit rooms will incorporate fi restats and fi re capacity to allow customers to use dampers. All columns supporting building normally locked gates to evacuate at street level shall be fi reproofed. subway stations in the event of an emergency. See chapter on Fare Array, Flammable materials shall not be stored Controls and Barriers for further within stations unless protected by an information. automatic fi re suppression system.

SMOKE DETECTORS, THERMAL FARE ARRAY DETECTORS AND ALARMS • Fare arrays are designed to achieve An addressable ﬁ re detection system maximum transparency utilizing shall be provided. Smoke detectors stainless steel railings between and thermal detectors shall be located unpaid and paid areas. in all refuse rooms, EDR's, EPR's and communication rooms. A smoke • Fare arrays are designed to account for detection and thermal detection panel future growth and equipment failures by with visual and audio indicator located increasing the calculated peak volume capacity.

• Minimum of 3 turnstiles and 1 emergency panic bar exit gate.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.5 • Turnstiles, gates and high exit SIGNAGE turnstiles provided in each control area shall be suffi cient for safe Signage is clear, simple and concise, and evacuation of passengers during an placed at the point of decision to promote emergency. safe and direct paths to destinations by customers. Signage requirements • Existing exit capacity shall not be shall be in accordance with present reduced. regulations. See GRAPHICS AND SIGNAGE chapter. • AFC turnstiles are unlocked in the exit mode. PASSENGER PLATFORM EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM • Exit doors and gates shall have a minimum width of 32" and shall The passenger platform emergency always swing outwards in the communication system provided in direction of egress. passenger waiting areas which are not in visual contact with a full-time agent PLATFORM EDGE WARNING STRIPS booth shall be equipped with talk-back speakers and closed circuit television The warning strip at the edge of platforms (CCTV’s). This permits visual monitoring serves as a visual and tactile warning and two-way conversations between any cue to passengers who are approaching individual in need of assistance and the platform edge. The contrast of color the full-time booth agent. In addition, and texture is accentuated by the darker telephones having emergency 911 porcelain ceramic on the platform as a capability are provided in waiting areas warning to blind and visually impaired and on station platforms. passenger: the texture alerts all riding public. The design of the warning strip PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM is stipulated by the AADAG guideline of the ADA. See ACCESSIBILITY FOR The public address system is designed THE DISABLED chapter. to alert passengers of service changes and emergency conditions REFUSE ROOMS via audio and visual text displays. Announcements can be transmitted from Refuse Rooms are utilized in subway the NYPD, the Rail Control Center, key stations to provide a secure place for dispatcher’s location, local dispatcher the refuse canisters away from the riding and full-time agent booth. See public. This reduces the risk of vandal COMMUNICATIONS chapter. induced fi res and noxious odors and contributes to a sense of cleanliness on the platforms. On elevated platforms, LIGHTING LEVELS Refuse Rooms under 100 sf and located under a roof or canopy must have a 2- The lighting system in the station is hour fi re rating with lockable, self-closing designed to provide lighting levels doors. Refuse Rooms larger than 100 meeting NFPA 130 requirements of sf must also be sprinklered. In subway normal as well as emergency lighting stations, all Refuse Rooms under 100 sf which permit safe movement of people. which are not provided with wet sprinkler See LIGHTING chapter. systems shall have a smoke detection device tied into the station fi re detection system.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.6 ELECTRICAL POWER shafts shall be provided with a means of venting smoke per the above codes Each station requires two sources of AC and agencies. electric power from the electric utility companies; in the event of failure of STRUCTURES either, the station can be safely operated. Lighting is powered equally from both Corrosion and defects of structural services. In addition, 600 VDC derived elements, such as beams, columns, from the third rail automatically switches walls, ceilings and ﬂ oors will be repaired on the emergency incandescent lighting or replaced to ensure structural integrity in the event of loss of AC power. The two and safety. services are brought into two separate ﬁ re rated rooms. EXITS

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS Where feasible, travel distance from any point of the station platform to the nearest Hazardous materials, such as asbestos, exit should not exceed 300'-0". polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and lead containing paint, may be en- PLATFORM EDGE GAPS countered during the rehabilitation of an existing station. Appropriate precautions Platform edge gaps should not exceed shall be documented and taken during the horizontal or vertical limits permitted construction to comply with all existing by ADA. Car ﬂ oor should always be legislation to eliminate the release above or level with station platforms. of these materials into the stations’ environment. OBSTRUCTIONS CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION Where feasible, there should be at In certain areas of stations, a Closed least 5'-0" between the platform edge Circuit Television system is installed and any wall, stair or other continuous consisting of strategically located obstruction; 4'-8" is permitted between cameras with monitors in the station’s the platform edge and a column or other full-time agent booth. In addition, CCTV " point source" obstruction. cameras are installed to view the edges SPACE HEATERS of curved platforms, with monitors at the train conductor’s position to permit the Space heaters in elevated stations conductor to view the entire length of the should have insulated enclosures to train that would not be possible because prevent injury to anyone coming into of the platform’s curvature. The T.A. direct contact with the unit. Police will determine on a site by site basis whether the speakerphone and CCTV systems should be monitored by EMPLOYEE PROTECTION the T.A. Police at stations where a police district exists. AGENT BOOTHS

ELEVATORS The following safety features have been integrated into the design of the agent Where constructed, elevators shall booth: incorporate all features mandated by the NYC Building Code, ANSI Elevator • Bullet resistant wall panel Code, requirements of the New York City construction. Fire Department, and A.D.A. Elevator

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.7 • Bullet resistant glazing panels. • Electronic agent entry lockset and deadbolt. • Emergency ﬁ re suppression system. • Emergency ﬁ re suppression system panic buttons. • Smoke detection system. • Emergency lights. • Emergency booth communication system (EBCS T.A. system). • Emergency booth communications panic buttons. • Telephone. • CCTV and two-way speakerphone system. • Flammable liquid resistant secure transaction deal tray. • Security alarm monitor signals for safe and agent booth entry door.

SCRUBBER ROOMS

Scrubber rooms are equipped with emergency eye wash units in the event a cleaning agent splashes on the employee.

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION ROOMS

EDRs are provided with rubber ﬂ oor mats and ﬁ re extinguishers. The electrical equipment is installed in strict conformance to the National Electrical Code and the Authority’s own standards for EDRs.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.8 REFERENCES ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE DISABLED ENTRANCES ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS FARE ARRAY, CONTROLS AND BARRIERS FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT GRAPHICS AND SIGNAGE LIGHTING COMMUNICATIONS STAIRWAYS AND RAILINGS

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SECURITY & SAFETY 17.9

WALLS

INTRODUCTION Walls are primary architectural elements At IND stations where new wall which establish the character of a station. materials are introduced in platform wall Many interior wall fi nishes for the New areas, the dominant horizontal color York City Transit System's stations band which identifi es a station should were originally glass tile, with white be maintained. Platform columns as the dominant, “unifying fi eld" color. should match the band as discussed Ceramic ornament was introduced to in Color Group ll in the Color chapter. enrich and identify individual stations. Any additional ornamentation on these The best examples of ceramic ornament walls must be consistent with the spirit which remain have been designated as of Modernist design and should always historic landmarks. Wherever possible, be secondary to the main horizontal the original character of a station should band. Color for this additional decorative be maintained and expressed. When ceramic work must also be selected original wall tiles or other wall elements from Color Group ll. See Figs. 7, 25, such as grilles, signage or marble lintels 28 - 29. cannot be preserved, the New York Transit Museum must be contacted for Typical wall typologies and theoretical possible salvage of these historic wall studies are illustrated in this section. elements. The basis for the wall policy is to provide a common denominator for all stations.

LINE CHARACTER Maintaining or evoking the spirit of the original station design is recommended and, in the case of landmarked stations, mandated. The generic differences in character of the system’s lines (IRT/BMT, or IND) should be expressed in any new designs for all public area walls.

At stations where new wall materials are introduced, white glazed ceramic tile shall be used as the dominant "ﬁ eld" color. Ornamentation and color shall be incorporated through ceramic banding or patterning. Graphic signage indicating the name of the station in the new ceramic banding or patterning should Fig.1: be incorporated. Rondel at 137th Street- City College (IRT), 1904. At IRT/BMT stations where new wall materials are introduced in platform wall areas, ornamentation and color should be consistent with the Beaux Arts tradition of ﬁ gurative decoration and the requirements for Color Group 1, as outlined in the chapter on Color in this manual. See Figs. 2, 3, 5, 20 - 24.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.1 PLATFORM AREA WALLS The following strategies for platform area wall treatment should be followed for station rehabilitations. In replicating or replacing wall tiles, the designer must keep to original font style, paying special attention to serifs (or the lack thereof).

PRESERVATION Fig. 2: Platform wall tile Original wall materials which are in Canal St. Station good repair should be preserved and (Lex) Manhattan protected, or restored.

REPLICATION Where materials are missing or damaged, walls should be repaired with in kind materials replicating the original condition. The extent of replication requires evaluation on a station-by-station basis, in consultation with the NYCT, MTA Arts for Transit and the Transit Museum. Fig. 3: REPLACEMENT Platform wall tile Where existing walls are damaged 5th Ave Station (N, R) Manhattan beyond repair, replace them with new materials which express the original character of the station. New wall materials may be applied over existing ﬁ nishes where feasible. Match tile size, color and glaze to originals.

TRACK WALLS

Track walls with fi nishes of ceramic tiles and paint are found on most Fig. 4: express stations and some vertically Platform wall tile with decorative art, confi gured IND local stations. The 81st St. Station wall generally contain white ceramic (IND) Manhattan fi eld tiles with a decorative band of colored or mosaic tiles. The non-tile portion of the wall is painted. The combination of white fi eld tiles and decorative band constitutes a signifi cant station characteristic, providing for a consistency of appearance unique to each of the lines and, indeed to the subway system as a whole. Fig. 5: Platform wall tile with decorative The ceramic tiles which are now 60 tile work, 18h to 90 years old have for the most part St. Station (1, 9) outlived their useful life. This is apparent Manhattan

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.2 in the crazing of the ceramic surface, white shade variation and water stains. Track walls have also suffered from water inﬁ ltration through the structural walls and water leakage from drain pipes in the walls. In many instances, water inﬁ ltration has undermined the structural integrity of the tiles, causing Fig. 6: Trackwall tile over them to disengage from the walls. existing structurally Repairs have been made overtime and sound trackwall tile are clearly visible as "patched" areas of 14th Street, 8th Ave new white tile. Station Manhattan

In bringing track walls to a state of good repair, the basic appearance of the walls should not be altered. Replacement wall solutions will be considered including panelized wall systems where applicable. The designer must recognize from station to station there are differences in the physical condition of the walls. S/He must also consider the Fig. 7: Prefabricated challenges which exist including access trackwall panels, and coordination with train service. 7th Ave Station The recommended solution must be (B, D, E, F) supported by a careful cost analysis on Manhattan a site speciﬁ c basis, predicated on the following criteria:

1. Track walls should be repaired in kind if upon visual inspection, the walls:

a. Appear to be structurally sound. b. There is little, if any, tell tale water damage. c. Water damage is limited to discreet areas of less than 2% of wall Fig. 8: Detail, trackwall surface. panels, Nevins St. d. Walls appear not to have required Station, Brooklyn extensive spot repairs over time. e. The condition of the ceramic tile in general is satisfactory.

2. If the conditions in item 1 are not met, the tiles will be addressed under one of the following three options predicated on a cost analysis which considers availability and cost of service diversions, possible Fig. 9: Detail, trackwall use of multi-crews to perform the panels, Brooklyn work, etc. Bridge Station (1, 2, 4, 5) Manhattan

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.3 a. If upon a physical survey the tiles are found to be structurally sound, water inﬁ ltration is not great and can be remedied, and there is not a substantial amount of tile delamination, new tiles can be placed over old tiles, however, no new "no clearance" zones shall be created.

b. If upon a visual survey a substantial amount of tiles are found to be delaminated and water penetration can be remedied, old tiles shall be removed and new tiles installed in kind. Fig. 10: c. As an alternative to items "a" and "b" Ceramic art; Passageway and especially if accessibility to the at Broadway track wall is restricted and/or water Nassau Complex, penetration will continue to be of great concern, a prefabricated wall panel system should be considered, however, no new "no clearance" zones shall be created.

However, NYC T prefers that this option not be used. It is the responsibility of the Designer/Architect to substantiate this as the only feasible option.

WALL DETAILING Artwork on track walls shall be determined as a part of the MTA Arts for Transit program. See chapter on Arts for Transit. Passageway, concourse, and mezzanine walls can be used to interpret the particular spirit of a station and/or a community. Mezzanines, concourses and passageways have been areas in the system which are devoid of any decorative architectural elements or Fig. 11: art. New designs for these walls should Mezzanine artwork take full advantage of the opportunities at Franklin Ave Station, Brooklyn provided in these areas of a station. See Figs. 10, 11.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.4 WINDSCREENS Windscreens are the important wall element in above ground stations. They protect passengers from the wind, rain Fig. 12: and snow. Visually, they are prominent Prototype porcelain features in the appearance of the above- windscreen panels. Model photograph ground platforms. It is the Authority's intent to standardize windscreens on open air platforms to establish them as a clear and consistent design element. Windscreens, where required, may be transparent or opaque, depending on the physical context that surrounds the elevated station and as described below. Artwork may be integrated Fig. 13: with windscreens as determined by Transparent wire the percentage for art program. See mesh windscreen, Chapter on Art. Weschester Sq. Station, Bronx STANDARDS As a general standard, windscreens shall conform to the prototypes illustrated in this section. See Figs. 12 - 15.

The materials for windscreens shall be porcelain, metal, stainless steel woven wire mesh and metal railings. Fig. 14: Current "Q" deck Fig. 12 shows the new prototype design windscreen, of standardized porcelain panels built- Weschester Sq. Station, Bronx in the framing. Standardization allows spare panels to be kept in stock at the station for ease of replacement in case of damage. Panels will be ﬁ nished on both sides and are to be designed to accommodate two-sheet advertising panels and signage. Island platform stations do not have full windscreens. For passenger protection small windscreens are placed at strategic intervals. These windscreens accommodate signage, or porcelain panels. Screens should be approximately one foot above the ground to prevent Fig. 15: anyone from hiding behind the screen, Island platform to facilitate maintenance and to inhibit windscreen, the accumulation of snow. Sheepshead Bay Station, Brooklyn

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.5 Telephones shall not be encouraged as accretions to or encumbrances on windscreens.

Standard design/details are available and must be used by the Design Architect/Engineer.

Fig. 16: Canopy RAILINGS 61st St / Woodside Station, Queens The stations with no crime and vandalism problems having low railings beyond the canopy will remain unchanged. The railings will be refurbished. The stations with moderate crime and vandalism problems will be provided with full height wire mesh panels with handrails. Stations with high crime or privacy issues where platforms overlook living quarters will be provided Fig. 17: View from street; with solid windscreens. Each site shall canopy, elevator be independently evaluated in conjunc- and platforms, tion with the Police Department, Transit 61st St. / Woodside Bureau. See Figs. 13, 14, 18. Station, Queens

CANOPIES

Many elevated and other open-air stations have historical, decorative canopies that cover platforms and staircases.

On platforms, canopies usually consist of steel girders, wood (both tongue- Fig. 18: and-groove paneling and beams) and Canopy 90th ST / sheet metal. The platform-edge end Elmhurst Ave of the wood beams often has decorative Station, Queens scrolling. Canopies over street stairs are similarly composed and have ornamental railings, signage, and hipped roofs. The posts that support the roofs have detailed capitals that add visual interest.

Wherever feasible, these design elements should be preserved or properly replicated. Fig. 19: Elevated platform enclosure, north Snow guards shall be provided at all side; Queensboro standing seam metal roofs, including Plaza Station, those at canopies. Design team shall Queens provide for fall protection for ongoing maintenance operations.

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.6 Fig. 20 : IRT 4th Avenue Line Astor Place Station

KEY Fig. 21: 1 Concrete base IRT 4th Avenue 2 Field tiles Line 3 Terra cotta faience plaque/Decorative tile Spring Street Station 4 Station name plaque 5 Ceiling vault 6 Plastered fascia 7 Ironspot brick wainscot

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.7 Fig. 22: IRT Lexington Av Line 103rd Street Station 1916

KEY Fig. 23: 1 Concrete base IRT 7th Avenue 2 Field tiles Line 3 Mosaic tile band/Decorative tile Franklin Street 4 Station name plaque 5 Ceiling vault 6 Plastered fascia

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.8 Fig. 24: BMT Broadway Line Rector Street Station 1916

KEY Fig. 25: 1 Concrete base IND 6th & 8th Av 2 Field tiles Lines 3 Mosaic tile band/Decorative tile Typical Station 4 Station name plaque 1931 5 Ceiling vault 6 Plastered fascia

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.9 Fig. 26: IRT Rehabilitation Astor Place Station 1986

KEY Fig. 27: 1 Concrete base IRT Rehabilitation 2 Field tiles Franklin Street 3 Mosaic tile band/Decorative tile Station 1988 4 Station name plaque 5 Ceiling vault 6 Plastered fascia 7 Ironspot brick wainscot 8 Ceramic tile wainscot

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.10 Fig. 28: Study A IND Track Wall

KEY 1 Concrete base Fig. 29: 2 Field tiles Study B 3 Mosaic tile band/Decorative tile IND Track Wall 4 Station name plaque 5 Ceiling vault 6 Plastered fascia 7 Safety niche 8 Ceramic tile warning band

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NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 WALLS - 19.12 SUSTAINABILITY

The signifi cant environment impacts from being located often underground the operation of a subway or elevated makes geothermal a good candidate train station will be addressed in this for consideration. On-site generation, section of the Station Design Guidelines lacking in scale, is gaining effi ciency by including greenhouse gas emissions eliminating the distribution losses over (such as carbon dioxide), noise and the vast distances of electrical supply vibration impacts, waste management, grid. water impacts, and numerous others. If the desired results of a new or rehabilitated station is to be as green or ENERGY CONSERVATION sustainable as possible, then some or all of the potential mitigation measures Whether dirty and polluting or clean offered for either belowground or above and renewable, electricity needs to be ground station should be included. conserved for environmental reasons for the former and fi nancial reasons for the latter. Energy conservation GREEN POWER - Renewable Energy efforts, including numerous advanced technologies, have been ongoing Electricity is produced in a variety of ways. activities for decades. Energy The production must utilized in the United conservation efforts continue to be the States is the burning of fossil fuels such most practical of the pollution prevention as coal and natural gas. The combustion methods. of fossil fuels produces greenhouse gas emissions including carbon dioxide and, as most scientists would agree, is Lighting one of the leading contributors toward rapid global warming. While solar, In the transit infrastructure electricity is wind and hydroelectric are cleaner for required for lighting in stations. Tube and the environment and more sustainable Compact fl uorescent lights and Light options to produce electricity, it is still Emitting Diode (LED) lights in signals, the burning of coal or natural gas that emergency lights, signage, etc.) use produces the most electricity. To make less energy, last longer and give off less a train station sustainable the use of heat than incandescent lights, thereby renewal and clean energy (or green using less electricity and conserving power) can mitigate this most signifi cant energy. The reduction of electrical environmental impact. consumption reduces the greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere and The environmental impact of greenhouse prevents more pollution from entering gas emissions can be mitigated by the the environment. The longer life of these use of renewable energy as a source bulbs as compared to incandescent is of electricity either supplied by an also a consideration. There are also electric company or generated on- opportunities to use motion sensors in site. Green power (renewal energy) ancillary rooms and other remote work generated on site such as photovoltaic areas. The use of motion sensors and (solar panels) or wind turbines could be photoelectric dimmers to take advantage used. Cogeneration/trigeneration and of natural day lighting in facilities the capture of the geothermal can be is encouraged to reduce electricity viewed as "renewable energy on-site consumption. generation" as well as energy recovery and conservation efforts since they involve not just electrical form of energy, but heat as well. Subway infrastructure

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SUSTAINABILITY 21.1 Daylighting either or both production/transportation and benefi ts of use. End-of-life recycling Stations with the intention of reducing plans should be required when materials energy usage should be designed to or vehicles are purchased. Buying maximize space and minimize lighting local materials whenever possible also requirements. Day lighting mezzanine reduces the emissions from transporting areas of stations wherever possible, those materials. in conjunction wit automatic lighting controls or photo-integrated light sensors, can save energy. Canopies Recycled Materials should be designed with appropriate shade control and weather protection. The construction of subway and elevated structures has not changed much over the years. The predominant materials Solar Panels used are steel, concrete and paint. Recycled prefabricated steel is now While technology continues to improve normally used in the construction of the effi ciency of solar energy, large tunnels and bridges. Concrete with electrical loads required to operate a recycled content such as fl y ash is train system cannot at this time benefi t sometimes used; however, care should from solar energy from a practical be taken to ensure the concrete is free business perspective. However, there of contaminants such as chlorides. are more practical uses of solar energy. recyclable material with recycled content Smaller scale solar panels can be helps save the environment and reduce used for signage, emergency phones, landfi ll requirements. canopy, lighting, close circuit systems, microwave transmitters and many other applications to power small load requiring Protective Coating/Chemicals equipment. The solar panels generate electricity during the day from the sun, Chemicals such as paints, sealants, and then also recharge a small battery and fl oor coverings with low volatile which can distribute electricity at night. organic compounds should also be Elevated train line infrastructure offers utilized. Protective coatings for steel a better opportunity for the potential without hazardous materials such as use of solar panels for station signage, lead that was predominantly used lights, etc. in the 20th century construction to protect steel should be utilized. In severe weather conditions paint tends MATERIAL to loosen and fl ake off the structure prematurely. Consideration to metalize Green procurement is where the real steel in lieu of painting may prevent paint improvements can happen gradually chips from dislodging and entering the and quickly, whether it is responsibly environment. specifying products or evaluating products for price with consideration to life cycle cost and environmental Solar Refl ectivity responsibility. Environmental footprint of a material includes natural or existing Pavements, roads, sidewalks, roofs resources, production, transportation, should have surfaces with a high solar packaging, health hazard of application, refl ective index to reduce the heat island recyclability and disposal. Also some effect. White roofs (cool roofs) or high materials have a better energy profi le in albedo surfaces refl ect sun and therefore

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SUSTAINABILITY 21.2 do not absorb heat, which contributes even the most watertight designed to the heat island effect and causes subway systems. Severe fl ooding temperatures to rise. is more prevalent these days with rivers and stream overfl owing after rainstorms. Some of the most recent storms have been the most severe ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE in recorded history. Expected sea level rise, as well as overall change When designing a new subway or in weather patterns, should be con- elevated train station, it is mandatory sidered in any new infrastructure that the systems operations are in design, as discussed above. compliance with local, state or federal guidelines or codes. Environmental In addition to discharging water compliance issues described here are appropriately, consideration should the major ones most notably associated also be given to rain water collection with a transit system. The following system and reuse - to maximize the are the more likely environmental use of portable water and lessen compliance issues to be encountered. burden on storm sewers. Rainwater Certain design criteria, as per Federal, can be used in fi xtures like sinks, State or Local regulations, are the urinals and toilets within a station minimum requirements. Mitigation and in crew quarters or for cleaning measures to ensure compliance could operations. also be enhanced to further prevent pollution, save natural resources and save energy. Storm Water Management

In station areas a green landscape Noise and Vibration that promotes the infi ltration of water back into groundwater should be For subway and train stations noise implemented. Previous pavements, and vibration, pose one of the most bioretention basins (rain gardens) significant operational environment and vegetated strips are some ex- impacts. Common mitigation measures amples of storm water management to alleviate noise barriers and trackside techniques that fi lter contaminants lubricants. For vibration mitigation and prevent water pollution, and slow fl oating slabs, resilient rail fasteners, down storm water runoff by allowing ballast mats and continuously welded storm water to slowly enter a storm rail are measures used to help prevent water sewer system. groundborne vibration from impacting adjacent structures. Ventilation gratings should be designed and located so as not to allow rainwater to infi ltrate the subway tun- Water Infi ltration/Discharge nels in order to prevent fl oods. Most ventilation gratings are level with the While diffi cult to achieve in prac- sidewalk, and with severe rainstorms tice, subway infrastructure should and fl ooding more frequent these be designed to be as watertight as days gratings should be elevated possible. However, a subway design to prevent infi ltration. Further ad- must include water drainage and aptation of the infrastructure to the discharge pumping systems (pump changing climate should be carefully rooms) to remove water from the considered. system. Rainwater, groundwater and water main leaks are a reality in Landscaping in and around station

NYCT DESIGN MANUAL SEPT 2009 SUSTAINABILITY 21.3 area access points could also include refl ective surfaces and low angle tree planting and vegetated or green spotlights should be employed to open space areas. These can serve minimized light pollution. not only for aesthetic purposes but also sequester carbon dioxide from the air. Stormwater management Bicycles techniques such as vegetated bioretention strips, swales or constructed Bike (lock and ride) facilities located wetlands, which help prevent fl ood- at strategic junctions on a subway ing, also provide carbon dioxide lines can encourage the use of bi- ingesting plants. cycles as means of getting to work in combination with public transportation. Bike racks/lockers adjacent to Equipment Rooms station at minimum at each station, and possibly some larger facilities Numerous equipment rooms hous- with weather protection and security ing electrical light, communication could stimulate a higher percentage and other equipment are located of bike riders. Bike riding also pro- throughout the transit infrastructure motes a healthy lifestyle. and must be operated and stored in rooms with a certain maintainable ambient temperature. Cooled air may be necessary for communication rooms to prevent overheating of equipment. An energy effi cient heating, ventilation and air conditioning system should be utilized.

Waste Management

The operation of a transit station includes the need to remove passenger-generated trash. A recycling system, which separates newspapers and glass and plastic bottles from regular municipal trash through recycling bins, or augmented or substituted by post collection separation of recyclables, should be established. Space for recycling should be designed and built into the infrastructure to make recycling easier and more efﬁ cient.

Light Pollution

Strategies to maintain light levels while preventing off site lighting and exterior pollution, utilizing such measures as cutoff luminaries, low

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