Delancey St– Essex St

On the train itself, I felt safe, but on the platform its another story, especially when its dark outside. There was a guy opening talking to someone about how he was arrested for things and when he walked away, he was hiding what I think was drugs behind hid hands. there were also some weird people. these platforms can be improved. the trains are mostly fine.

Beneath the bustling Lower East Side streets, Where F and J and M and Z converge, A labyrinth of tunnels grimly greets The weary souls who from the stairways merge. The tiles are cracked, the columns stained with age, The platform reeks of something hard to name, And transfers here require a pilgrim's rage— No signage points you toward your rightful train. Yet still, I love this underworld of grime, Where buskers play their worn accordion songs, Where Essex Market waits above to chime With pickles, bread, and international throngs. The ceilings drip. The rats have lost their fear. The express train flies past without a care. But step outside—the city's soul is here, On Delancey, with dumplings in the air. Three stars of five. It gets you where you're going, Though not without some suffering and unknowing.

This is a nice interesting station, you can catch the F & J & M trains here and it's always active and the Transit Police is always on this station too 😇

Very busy..medium to heavy traffic. Machines for add on metro cards n purchase. Gate for stroller n shopping carts. The booth clerk is courteous n helpful.

This station is a busy transfer station this is because the F, J, M and Z trains stop here on the weekdays during the rush hours and on the weekends are the F, J and M trains. Also, that many people use the station daily. The station is an underground station with transfers to trains.

This station stinks on ice. I've spent more time waiting for the Uptown F train at this station than all my time spent on the actual F train combined.

Need attention,very dirty car as well there’s no cleaning people from the starting point of the station , it is not good who is paying for travel cost Thanks

Major transfer point for J,F and M train to uptown and downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn homeless sleep spot watch your back be suspicious

Typical grimy NYC MTA subway station. Not the cleanest and the platforms can be filled with sketchy looking characters late at night after out bar hopping in this hood. Yet, it's perfectly situated across the Essex Street Market, and within walking distance to other cool businesses in the area. Serves the F, Z, J, M lines.

This station is for the fishes, you would think you would find a major seafood market up the steps, but forget-about-it. If you look at the right spots you see these mosaic tiles of fishes that I think is cool looking. I was amazed by how a few different tile sizes and colors could be used to create the likes of a fish with scales. A Google search comes up with and artist name Ming Fay who has a long list of public art works across the city.

Just a pretty lame station. It's the last stop before the Williamsburg Bridge. This station is not much to look at inside. Outside there's some good places to eat. This place can get iffy. It usually doesn't get busy. It's not an area as popular with tourists. It does have many things you can do. There's lots of clubs and restaurants. As for the station, there's not much to say about it. This serves the F, J, M, and Z trains. On the F, it's the stop after the Bowery. The next stop is Marcy in Williamsburg. It's a convenient stop if you want to see the bridge. It takes you right to it. The trains are often unreliable on weekends.

The Essex Street / Delancey Street subway stop is a place I frequent - because I'm off the M/J/Z line--yes, it's the Z train is not just a myth--but it's probably one of the most frustrating stops. Going into Manhattan is typically okay but coming back to Brooklyn, especially after hours, the trains are often delayed or stalled for long periods of time. I've even had to wait up to 30 minutes, before the train departed for Brooklyn. It's also one of the smelliest stations and is often riddled with trash that overflows and cannot be contained by the current trash cans. I will give to two stars because they have electronic displays that often have the correct information about train arrivals (still crazily delayed) and there's a police presence after hour, unlike many other stations.

When I got off the subway at this station I smiled to myself. "Delancey St" was tiled onto the wall. I'm sure I'm dating myself here but love the movie Crossing Delancy and this just made me think about it. Also I had never been to the LES before. Not just this station but every station I was in on a recent trip was clean and in working order. No complaints but this Midwesterner who is used to driving her car everywhere. The subway works!

Dangerous station! Today, I thought I would be safer waiting on the platform then at the East Broadway station. Boy, was I wrong! I was alone on the platform when a burly homeless man with no mask started screaming crazy, angry things. Since I was the only one there, he started directing his abuse towards me, telling me "I am not crazy!!" I moved away from the platform when yet another violently angry (but not homeless type) man burst in swinging a large iron pipe. I then ran above ground and forgot my trip. Of course, there are never any police around anymore in NYC!

Lower East Side. "Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard," 2004 Glass Mosaic by Ming Fay Glass mosaics on platform and mezzanine walls symbolizes the the liveliness of the once thriving fishing marketplace in this storied Lower East Side community. Aquatic images are a metaphor for "crossing" in a glass mosaic mural on the Brooklyn-bound platform, inspired by the prominent DeLancey family's eighteenth century farm, which stretched from the East River to the Hudson River. The farm's cherry orchard was located where Orchard Street stands and is memorialized with radiant cherry trees on the Manhattan-bound platform. Essex Street/ Delancey Street station frequently emits delays for the F train. Easy transfer to J, Z and M trains with easy to follow MTA signage. Restroom facilities are open to the public on the Brooklyn bound platform. Benches are available which, unfortunately, attract panhandlers. Platforms are wide for spacious room as it never feels crowded even during delayed intervals. During prolonged train delays I admire Ming Fay's glass mosaic aquatic mural.

And now, for a series I like to call "ponderable questions for rainy days": Did Jay-Z get his name from the J-Z trains? Why do only some subway stations have murals? Why do I spend so much of my time in the city underground? Why do I spend so much time out of the city writing reviews of trains and train stations? These questions, yelp readers, will most likely continue to haunt me until the next time I'm in the city. The Essex/Delancey St station features my fav subway train, the usually express Brooklyn bound F train, and the weird J-Z train I have yet to understand (it goes to Brooklyn and Queens or " broad st" which no one seems to know the location of). It features beautiful murals. One Saturday night, a boy prodigy, complete with over the shoulder glaring stage dad, sat on a folding chair playing the cello with an open case in front of him. With the swimming fish murals in the background, and the sound of a string instrument echoing off the walls, my wait seemed very short for the next train, and my friend threw $2 in the case. Note that the area around the subway is pretty happening on the weekends, but its also more dark and desolate in places than the more touristy areas of the city. That said, I like the LES just fine and can see this station and me becoming good friends.

When I lived on St. Mark's Place, the Astor Place subway was my default station. Since I've been living between avenues B and C, I naturally gravitate to the Delancey/Essex station now, especially when going to Brooklyn. (And goddamn the MTA for moving the M9 bus to Avenue C and not having it go to South Ferry anymore!) Turning the M into a 6th-avenue train is surprising and a little confusing, especially that now there's one platform where both the downtown J and uptown M stop. (I've ended up on the wrong train more than once because of this. It's kind of unfair, expecting people to think fast while they're running for a train pulling into the station.) One of my pictures shows that one weekend last May, artists painted the "Brooklyn" sign to read "Breuckelen," which is Dutch and means "the broken land." It was Brooklyn's original name; Coney Island used to be a real Island, too. (A coney is a rabbit.)

Delays. Forget the weekend, with all the delays you're better off walking. No train running from essex to here, they are skipping this stop there. J train isn't running this weekend, f train isn't running the next weekend. Literally its a joke how the MTA functions. On the weekday however this place is half decent with no issues. But on weeknights you're going to have the aromatic smell of hobo piss and some other less that appealing scents

I always seem to be at this station well more than most people who live not in this area. I am just in lower east side alot so the F and J train transfers is where I take it. I go to Bowery ballroom or Congee Village or Vanessa Dumplings from the short walk that it is from Essex/Delancey Subway. I will just keep my streak going and I will keep being a regular in the lower east fuckin' side. J train to Broadway Junction is a pretty quick straight run when the train gets there kind of on time at least.

The middle of this station was warmer than it was outside for some reason. I wonder how this works in the winter or hot summer months. In the middle of the night, the train takes forever to get here. Other than this & a little more space than some, it's your typical subway station in NYC.

There's this guy. He doesn't live in NYC. He sometimes lives in a hotel. Sometimes this hotel is near this subway station. Sometimes I visit this hotel which is near this subway station. When that happens, I need to get home quickly. When that happens, I hop on the Delancey Street F. When that happens, I'm home in 15 minutes. No one is any the wiser, except for you fools reading my stupid review about a subway station.

Ahhh a train station finally renovated right. The first car area of the Manhattan bound side now sports a very wide staircase to transfer to the F train. It was so narrow before, it would take forever going down to transfer. Moreover, after renovation this station looks very good. It is also well kept. The air was very breathable.(Maybe close to a tunnel leading to fresh air outside the Williamsburg Bridge helps) Train station just 3 blocks from East Houston St. This is a heavy use station, yet somehow it is kept well. 3 tracks, one large dual use platform, and one regular for Manhattan bound trains. To exit to the street from a Brooklyn bound JMZ train, you need to go underneath and then back up(because the large dual use platform has no direct access to the street - only the regular one)

The F train is incredibly unreliable and it's even worse on the weekends. I don't even think it actually runs uptown on the weekends. I'll watch 3 trains go by completely empty heading into Brooklyn as an hour goes by and not 1 F train has come to take the crowds of people waiting to go uptown. I honestly don't know where our tax dollars go because it most certainly doesn't go to reliable workers or station maintenance. I miss the reliability of the 4,5 and 6. Whoever hires the people who work the F train and delegates their schedule should get fired because obviously that person doesn't know how to run a business.

Believe it or not, this station used to look a lot worse. Well they fixed it. It works okay by me. On the weekends the platforms sound like a high school cafeteria full of hipsters.

No elevator service for wheelchair, disabled and/or strollers, senior citizens/elderly in these stations.

There is this guy.He doesn't live in New York. He sometime live in a hotel.Sometime this hotel is near this subway station.

Very very annoying how F and M are on different platforms. There's usually a person at the top and person at the bottom of the stairwell helping each other spot which train comes in first.

No I don't like this station. I try to make a different transfer to the J (or take the M, if it's a weekday) if I'm moseying around Manhattan. I really dislike the whole getting from the F to the Brooklyn-bound J aspect of the trip. I also dislike the getting from the entrance to the Brooklyn-bound J part as well. This is where most of my dislike for the station comes from; I tend to miss late night trains because of the awkwardness of the transfer.

Surprisingly one of the cleanest stations. Based on the white tiles that line the walls of this station. It's actually spacious when you are waiting on the F M platform. Nothing really stands out at this station, but when it's about 3am on a weekend. The LES crazies do come out and play.

Now see, I come from Philly where the Broad St. Line rules in having the filthiest, ugliest, and most run down stations in town so it was a nice homage to see that NY also has small intimate semi clean stations, I'm a fan.

On many a night before and after visits to the lower east side I've visited this station. The best thing about this station is that there are plenty of benchs by where I wait for the downtown F train. Now if only we can make the F come faster.

Too stinking hot at night in the summer, but way more spacious waiting area than average in the city.

I got a face slap on this station. At 6 PM yesterday. While I walked downstairs on the right side, two teenage Africa American girls who walked up from the stairs squeeze to my side and the girl on the other side said excuse me and reached out behind her friend in the middle and slapped my face. Then they walked upstairs laughed so hard.