The subway station at the Crossroads of the World has a brand-new entrance, complete with an ADA-accessible elevator and the system’s largest mosaic installation, MTA officials said Monday. 

The new entryway, which leads into the Times Square-42nd Street subway station from the plaza between West 42nd and West 43rd streets, includes a 15-foot-wide staircase, a modernized turnstile area and a new ADA-compliant elevator, MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said at a press conference. 

What You Need To Know

  • The MTA on Monday unveiled a new entrance at the Times Square-42nd Street subway station 

  • The entrance includes a 15-foot-wide staircase, a modernized turnstile area, a new ADA-accessible elevator and a mosaic installation created by artist Nick Cave, the MTA said

  • The new mosaic installation is part of a three-piece work of art that Cave dubbed “Every One, Each One, Equal All"

A canopy over the stairs was “designed to evoke the Waterford crystals” on the ball that drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, Lieber said. 

The entrance also features a mosaic installation created by artist Nick Cave, Lieber added. The piece is the subway system’s largest mosaic installation, MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer said. 

“The timing couldn’t be better to cut the ribbon on this project, given the resurgence of Times Square and of Broadway,” Lieber said at the news conference.

The new mosaic installation is part of a three-piece work of art that Cave dubbed “Every One, Each One, Equal All,” the MTA said in a press release. 

The installation unveiled Monday comprises two of the three parts, “Each One” and “Equal All,” the release said. The third part, “Every One,” was previously installed in the station’s 42nd Street Connector, according to the release. 

Cave “is best known for his Soundsuits, wearable sculpture which camouflage the body within, creating a second skin to conceal race, gender and class, freeing the wearer and forcing the viewer to look without judgment,” the MTA noted on its website. 

“Times Square is one of the busiest, most diverse and fabulously kinetic places on the planet,” Cave said in a statement. “For this project I took the above ground color, movement, and cross-pollination of humanity, [and] bundled it into a powerful and compact energy mass that is taken underground.”