for free. There are also free elevators for pedestrians at 190th Street, the next station uptown, as well as at 191st Street on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. The elevators at the 181st Street station are not ADA-accessible , since there are no elevators leading from the fare control area to the platforms. However, unlike at 190th Street, patrons with wheelchairs are able to traverse from this entrance to the passageway out to Overlook Terrace, as the elevators provide direct access to both the mezzanine and street level. In December 2019, the MTA announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program. There is a staircase available in case of an emergency. In popular culture The station is mentioned in the title song of the Broadway musical In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda, where Usnavi says to take the A train "even farther than Harlem to Northern Manhattan and maintain, get off at 181st and take the escalator. I hope you're writing this down I'm gonna test ya later". On September 13, 1980, aspiring pianist Eric Kaminsky was robbed and stabbed to death in the station. His murder became the basis for his mother's book The Victim's Song. References External links 181st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View Overlook Terrace entrance from Google Maps Street View Fort Washington Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View Platform from Google Maps Street View 1932 establishments in New York City IND Eighth Avenue Line stations New York City Subway stations in Manhattan Railway and subway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Railway stations in the United States opened in 1932 Washington Heights, Manhattan