MTA – W 4th St Subway Station

so goddamn hot in this place it feels like your about to have a heat stroke they need to seriously do somethhing
why does the c and e trains come so infrequently??? sweated out my freakin perm

An exit at W3rd St and another exit at W8th street.
If you’re taking the B, D, F, or M train to this station, be prepared to walk up a lot of stairs to get to the exit.
A, C, and E train are right below the sidewalk while B, D, F, and M train are below the A, C, and E platform.
Convenient to get to the train station and to transfer to another train.

Yeah this place somewhat smells but the fact that the A, C, D, E, F, B, and M trains all stop here is really quite good. Excellent phone signal, at least on the upper A/​C floor (below that, not as much.)
It’s essential for the area and I like it quite a lot.

The whole place doesn’t wreak of urine, and the posters are always worth reading. There is an escalator and elevator at this station to switch between the Orange and blue lines. The elevator smells like itinerary but that’s because it’s New York and every subway elevator smells like urine.
If you enter on the south side, 4 of every 5 times you will find a group of people checking if the 5 – 0 is watching so they can try to jump the turn sty.
On the north west entrance there is usually a guy with a guitar that knows how to make it sing.
Great location for a subway, lots of connections.

Essential to Greenwich Village. This station unites A, C, D, E, F, B, M trains as a major hub for strap hangers to make connections. Exit to street is on the A and C platform. Yes, dark, dingy and of course filthy. Elevators are available for the physically challenge (when working). Public announcements from MTA for service alerts are minimal and mostly inaudible. Upon exiting you are in direct sight of the famous West 4^th Street Basketball Courts and the adjacent street is IFC Theater, Fay Da Bakery.

A good place to catch a train… since you can catch a few here.

Chances are my review won’t be as insightful as Kevin’s, but head to the real listing just in case you want to review the thoughts of others (mine are pasted below via
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Depending on your approach and your exit strategy, the walking sometimes involved at this station can make you reconsider your opinion of it as a hub. That said, it’s easily the most convenient station in a ‘hood that is shockingly lacking in reliable lines. It’s also a duplicate listing

4.5 stars. Hard to not appreciate the most convenient stop in the West Village. As an NYU film student living on Greenwich Street with most of his extended family in Queens, this stop is like a godsend to me, not to mention all the great food stores, bakeries and restaurants surrounding it. Come out of the station on West 3^rd Street (not West 8^th Street, where there’s a dollar pizzeria and Duane Reade) and you’re literally in front of a Fay Da Bakery and the IFC Theater.
West 4^th Street Station would get 5 stars from me if it weren’t so bare and still pretty typical of NYC subway stations – i.e. rats, pounds of garbage between the tracks, rub hands with Purell if they touch anything, breezes of exhaust, rub hands with Purell even if they don’t touch anything, yellowing tile walls with grit-​filled lines and crevices and blackening platform floors. But really, for an underground station over 80 years old, it’s been kept pretty well otherwise. What is said in other reviews is correct: This place is a highly functional relic, with no decorations or adornments. It’s a proud, tired thing, and an important landmark of this city.

You can’t escape this station, and it’s one worth leaving to visit the surrounding area — here’s why:
I really like a station that allows me to walk underground a few blocks so that I don’t freeze in the winter.
DIRTY — It’s pretty filthy, which is the usual standard of Subway Stations. However, it at least doesn’t smell like fish (lookin at you, Chinatown subways)
TRAINS — The station connects BDFM with the ACE — what more do you need? The connection is two sets of stairs… super fast
SURROUNDINGS — there are SO MANY EXCELLENT SPOTS nearby… old Little Italy with phenomenal restaurants on Carmine, movie theaters, bars, parks…

It’s a train station with 2 exits… one at west 3^rd street and on the other end, west 8^th street. I usually exit at the 8^th street side… and I usually exit in the early morning… what scares me the most about this station is not the bums that sometimes hang near the staircase but the big rats that run around the turnstile area… eeks, run b*tch RUN!!!

Definitely a hub for many subway lines … the only place where the A, B, C, D, E and F meet up — great for quickly interchanging between these trains (if the slow fuc&ers will get out of my way that is!).
Mostly I’m just changing trains but sometimes I enter and exit to go to either my favorite ice cream place (Cones on Bleecker Street) or meeting up with a cousin to take them around the Village sight-​seeing or even to get to a Unilocal event for brunch! :-)
The northern exit brings you to the junction of 6^th Avenue, Greenwich Avenue and West 8^th Street while the southern exit puts you at the movie theater, basketball courts and Mc Donald’s at 3^rd Street and 6^th Avenue.
Whether you need the Blue (A/​C/​E) or Orange (B/​D/​F), just come here … an 80-​year-​old station in the heart of NYU-​ville.

Stop at this Station one time. to go to a restaurant… the station is ok …

Not bad. Multiple train lines, and a decent amount of entrances/​exits. Not that it can be helped, but it is a little annoying that you can’t easily stand in the stairwell to see if the Blue or Orange line will come first. But it’s not too shabby… if a bit run down… and I kinda like the ramp leading down to the A/​C/​E platform :-)

It’s a nice hub & you can get to a lot of different subways but I do get turned around here on occasion. Often, the trains will run to this stop even when the MTA decides to start with the weekend station closures.
Getting an A/​C train here can be torturous on a late weeknight. Otherwise, it’s your basic subway station with stairs & an older elevator. It’s one of those that symbolizes the real NYC experiences so I’d advise a tourist who really wants to know what an average subway station is like to come to this one, among others.

Located conveniently in Greenwich Village, I frequent here quite a lot specially during weekends. It is a express station and transfer stop on the IND Sixth Avenue and IND Eighth Avenue Lines of the Subway and is located at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village.
One can catch —
*A, D, E, and F trains at all times;
*B and M trains on weekdays;
*C train at all times except late nights
I always find artists here playing some different kind of instruments. There are ample benches to sit onto at this station and it is very clean unlike other subway stations.

This station opened on Saturday, September 10^th, 1932 and is awesome and crumbling. It brings together the 6^th avenue and 8^th avenue lines – originally called the Independent, or IND lines. As a matter of fact, this station was the birthplace of the IND subway, which was conceived with the intention of relieving the severe overcrowding on the IRT (Interboro Rapid Transit) lines – both east and west. As a result, and something most people are probably aware of: the wheelbase of IRT trains is narrower than IND or BMT trains; therefore, they cannot run on their tracks. (7^th avenue trains occasionally swap with Lexington avenue trains, you know.)
There are improvements going in, including elevators – making this station fully accessible. There’s an elevator at 3^rd street into the station, and one running from the A platform down to the F platform. But as of this writing, most of the tiles are the original glass tiles of this station, which I find pretty cool – even though some are falling off the walls.
Some of the best performers play this station; it is easily the coolest subway station around. I regularly take the M8 bus to and from here, since there is no entrance on West 4^th street – only on West 3^rd and West 8^th streets.