The 50 richest stations of the NYC subway
NYC subway stations ranked by the median household income of the census tract they sit in.
Where the money is on the New York network
Every station the survey could price, coloured by the income around it, over the city's own streets.
Distribution across the 412 stations the survey could price.
Colour runs on rank, not on the raw figure, so the ramp is spent evenly across the network. The wash under the lines spreads that colour between neighbouring stations, so the pattern reads at a glance. Dot size is annual ridership. Hover a station for its numbers.
- 1
Chambers Street (1/2/3)
123$250,001TriBeCa loft district just north of the World Trade Center, where former warehouses became some of Manhattan's priciest residential conversions.
- 2
Chambers Street–World Trade Center
AC$250,001Edge of TriBeCa and the rebuilt WTC campus, mixing federal buildings with luxury condo towers along West Broadway.
- 3
Fifth Avenue (7)
7$250,001Bryant Park entrance under Fifth Avenue, but the tract reaches into Midtown East offices and the dense pied-a-terre blocks behind the library.
- 4
Fifth Avenue–59th Street
NRW$250,001Plaza District at the southeast corner of Central Park, surrounded by the Plaza Hotel, Bergdorf Goodman, and the wealthiest residential corridor in the city.
- 5
Franklin Street
1$250,001Heart of TriBeCa, cast-iron streets and converted lofts that draw celebrities and finance families along the Hudson side of Lower Manhattan.
- 6
Park Place
23$250,001Civic Center and TriBeCa edge near City Hall Park, ringed by new luxury towers like 30 Park Place and quiet pre-war coops.
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Union Square (L)
L$250,001L-train mezzanine at 14th Street and the eastern side of Union Square, bordering the Flatiron and the brownstones of Gramercy.
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World Trade Center
E$250,001Oculus and Liberty Park core, the same TriBeCa-adjacent tract that holds the most expensive new construction Lower Manhattan has ever seen.
- 9
York Street
F$250,001Sole F-train stop in DUMBO, converted Brooklyn warehouses with cobblestone streets and views of the Manhattan Bridge.
- 10
Canal Street (1)
1$246,250Western Canal between SoHo and Hudson Square, an old printing district reborn as one of the priciest loft markets in the city.
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Canal Street (A/C/E)
ACE$246,250Sixth Avenue and Canal, the SoHo and Hudson Square seam where former garment buildings now host tech tenants and condo conversions.
- 12
Houston Street
1$246,250West Houston between SoHo and the West Village, a quiet corridor of converted lofts and townhouses just below Greenwich Village.
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86th Street (4/5/6)
456$244,250Upper East Side spine along Lexington, the Carnegie Hill blocks of brick prewar coops and the most consistent old-money pocket on the Lex.
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Astor Place
6$236,250NoHo and the southern fringe of the East Village, with the Cooper Union, Astor Place cube, and converted department stores turned condos.
- 15
Eighth Street – New York University
RW$236,250Greenwich Village and Washington Square, the NYU core surrounded by tree-lined townhouse blocks south of 14th Street.
- 16
Cortelyou Road
Q$224,808Victorian Flatbush and Ditmas Park in Brooklyn, freestanding wood-frame houses on deep lots, an unusual pocket of suburb inside the city.
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79th Street
1$223,952Upper West Side near the American Museum of Natural History, prewar coops along Broadway and West End Avenue.
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South Ferry
1$222,167Tip of Manhattan at Battery Park, Staten Island Ferry terminal next to the high-rises of Battery Park City.
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South Ferry – Whitehall Street
WR$222,167Same Battery tract as South Ferry, connecting the ferry terminal to the rebuilt residential towers of Lower Manhattan.
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Court Street
R$218,500Brooklyn Heights at Borough Hall, federal-style townhouses on Pierrepont and Montague with Promenade views of the Manhattan skyline.
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Union Street
R$213,227Park Slope at Fourth Avenue, the limestone-and-brownstone blocks rising west from Prospect Park.
- 22
81st Street – Museum of Natural History
CB$211,888Upper West Side at Central Park West, a row of landmark prewar coops including the Beresford and the San Remo.
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116th Street – Columbia University
1$209,667Morningside Heights gates of Columbia, faculty coops and the institutional core that anchors the neighborhood.
- 24
77th Street
6$205,685Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side, the medical corridor wedged between Park and Lexington with its dense prewar coop stock.
- 25
Grand Army Plaza
23$203,936Park Slope and Prospect Heights at the arch entrance to Prospect Park, lined with townhouses on Eastern Parkway and Prospect Park West.
- 26
Cortlandt Street
RW$199,576Financial District just south of the WTC, a residential conversion zone where landmark office towers have become luxury rentals.
- 27
Rector Street
RW1$199,576Lower FiDi between Trinity Church and Battery Park City, prewar office buildings turned into high-end condos.
- 28
Wall Street (4/5)
45$199,576Wall Street itself, the historic banking core that residential conversions have turned into one of Manhattan's quietest weekend neighborhoods.
- 29
WTC Cortlandt
1$199,576Reopened 1 train stop under Greenwich Street, serving the residential side of the rebuilt World Trade Center campus.
- 30
Smith–Ninth Streets
FG$199,067Elevated F and G stop above the Gowanus Canal, between Carroll Gardens brownstones and Park Slope.
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59th Street–Columbus Circle
1ACBD$198,766Columbus Circle at the southwest corner of Central Park, Time Warner Center, Lincoln Square coops, and Billionaires' Row stretching to the east.
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57th Street (M)
M$198,750Sixth Avenue at 57th, the Midtown office spine where Billionaires' Row supertalls have reshaped the residential map.
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72nd Street
Q$194,650 - 34
14th Street–Union Square
NQRW456$193,958Union Square hub, the meeting point of the East Village, Flatiron, and Greenwich Village townhouse districts.
- 35
33rd Street
6$192,897Murray Hill and Rose Hill on the Lex, prewar coops and converted office buildings just south of Grand Central.
- 36
Seventh Avenue (F/G)
FG$192,411Park Slope core, the brownstone blocks running east toward Prospect Park along Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
- 37
City Hall
RW$190,769Civic Center loop at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, a quiet residential pocket of TriBeCa-adjacent conversions.
- 38
57th Street – Seventh Avenue
NQRW$189,541Carnegie Hall corner of Midtown, the lower end of Billionaires' Row with 220 Central Park South and One57 looming overhead.
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23rd Street (1)
1$188,867West Chelsea on Seventh Avenue, the High Line corridor and Chelsea Market with luxury conversions along the West Side rail yards.
- 40
23rd Street (F/M)
FM$188,867Chelsea and Flatiron border on Sixth Avenue, prewar lofts and the Madison Square Park corridor.
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28th Street (N/Q/R/W)
NQRW$186,191NoMad on Broadway, the boutique-hotel district between Madison Square Park and Herald Square.
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23rd Street (N/Q/R/W)
NQRW$186,028Flatiron at Broadway, the iconic wedge building and the cluster of office-to-residential conversions around Madison Square Park.
- 43
23rd Street–Baruch College
6$186,028Gramercy and Kips Bay on the Lex, a townhouse and prewar coop pocket anchored by Gramercy Park.
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28th Street (6)
6$186,028Kips Bay and Rose Hill on the Lex, brick prewar buildings and the NYU Langone medical corridor.
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Broad Street
JZ$184,730Heart of FiDi between the New York Stock Exchange and Stone Street, a dense cluster of residential conversions.
- 46
Wall Street (2/3)
23$184,730Same FiDi tract as Broad Street, serving the converted office towers that line Wall Street and Pine.
- 47
Roosevelt Island
F$180,677Roosevelt Island in the East River, planned community of Mitchell-Lama buildings and newer Cornell Tech residential blocks.
- 48
28th Street (1)
1$176,944Chelsea on Seventh Avenue, the brownstone and gallery blocks between the High Line and Madison Square Park.
- 49
Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street
MQ$176,667Lower Upper East Side at Lex and 63rd, the prewar coop blocks running north from Bloomingdale's.
- 50
Lexington Avenue/59th Street
456NRW$176,667Bloomingdale's corner of the Upper East Side, the transfer hub that anchors the prewar coop stock of Lex and Park.
The income shown is the median household income of the census tract containing the station (American Community Survey 2018-2022, table B19013, in current dollars). It reflects the surrounding neighborhood, not the riders. The top of the ranking is dominated by Lower Manhattan (TriBeCa, FiDi, SoHo), Midtown south of Central Park, the Upper East and Upper West sides, and a handful of brownstone Brooklyn pockets (Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO). The $250,001 value is the ACS top-code and is censored.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year 2018-2022 (B19013_001E), Census Geocoder for station-to-tract mapping, MTA (station positions).