The IND Worth Street Line was a proposed major expansion of the IND Eighth Avenue Line. It was to come out of the main line along Sixth Avenue/Church Street south of Canal Street and turn south-east into Worth Street. This route would travel in a two-track tunnel and probably stop at Foley Square (Lafayette and Centre Streets, on the north side of Federal Plaza), Chatham Square (with a possible connection to the Second Avenue Subway), Rutgers Street–East Broadway (with a connection to the IND Rutgers Street Line), and a station in the Lower East Side (possibly Pitt Street and Grand Street).
Crossing to Williamsburg, the line was to have stops at Havemeyer Street, South Fourth Street (connections to the IND Crosstown Line and a major junction to the IND Houston Street Line, the IND Utica Ave Line and a connection to the Rockaways). The Manhattan portion from the Church Street bellmouth to the East River would have been about two miles long.
Although the line never saw construction, evidence remains visible of a plan to build it. Vestiges of a bell-mouth can be seen while traveling on the local tracks south of Canal Street. A large open space above the platform level at East Broadway (IND Sixth Avenue Line) was intended to become a two-track station. Above the north end of the Broadway (IND Crosstown Line) station, a six-track station where the IND Worth Street and the Houston Street Lines would have converged can be envisioned.
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