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The Lexington Avenue/59th Street station (signed as 59th Street–Lexington Avenue) is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the BMT Broadway Line. It is located at Lexington Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets, on the border of Midtown and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The station complex is ...
This week, metal sheets topped with “spikes” — they look more like scalloped ridges — installed at the 59th Street/Lexington Avenue station, ostensibly to stop people from gripping the ...
Lexington Avenue/59th Street (4, 5, 6, <6> , N, R, and W trains) The Roosevelt Island Tramway terminates at Second Avenue near 59th Street and extends eastward to Roosevelt Island . The New York Central Railroad 's 59th Street station , a never-opened railroad station, exists on Park Avenue , which now carries the Park Avenue main line of the ...
Now the only permanent MetroCard subway-to-subway transfers are between the Lexington Avenue/59th Street complex (4, 5, 6, <6> , N, R, and W trains) and the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station (F, <F> , N, Q, and R trains) in Manhattan and between the Junius Street (2, 3, 4, and 5 trains) and Livonia Avenue (L train) stations in Brooklyn.
The line runs west as a two-track subway line under 60th Street (east of Fifth Avenue) and 59th Street (west of Fifth Avenue), with stations at Lexington Avenue/59th Street and Fifth Avenue/59th Street. It then turns south to Seventh Avenue into the 57th Street–Seventh Avenue station. [5]
Lexington Avenue seen from 50th Street with the Chrysler Building in the background. Both Lexington Avenue and Irving Place began in 1832 when Samuel Ruggles, a lawyer and real-estate developer, petitioned the New York State Legislature to approve the creation of a new north–south avenue between the existing Third and Fourth Avenues, between 14th and 30th Streets.
On July 23, 1959, the Board of Estimate approved the contract for the construction of express platforms at Lexington Avenue–59th Street. The new platforms were intended to reduce transfer congestion at Grand Central–42nd Street, and to allow transfers between the express trains and BMT trains to Queens. Even before the express platforms ...
Station sign describing the out-of-system transfer to Lexington Avenue–59th Street station. This station opened on October 29, 1989, [ 51 ] along with the entire IND 63rd Street Line. [ 2 ] [ 52 ] The Q train served the station on weekdays and the B train stopped there on weekends and late nights; both services used the Sixth Avenue Line. [ 2 ]