34th Street – Penn Station (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line) - Ridership

Ridership

34th Street – Penn Station on the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line is continually ranked as one of the busiest stations in the subway system. In 2010, it was the fifth-busiest subway station with 27,196,195 riders as recorded by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. By comparison, its sister station on the Eighth Avenue Line is ranked sixth-busiest, with 26,758,623 passengers. When the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line station was a shuttle stop before the rest of the South Ferry extension opened, ridership was quite low; in its first year of operation, only 78,121 boardings were recorded.