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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 ...
On June 27, 1922, the New York State Transit Commission commissioned its engineers to examine platform-lengthening plans for 23 stations on the lines of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the successor to the BRT, to accommodate eight-car trains. As part of the project, 59th Street's platforms would have been lengthened from ...
The cross-platform transfer between both the IND and BMT 63rd Street lines opened on January 1, 2017 with the opening of the Second Avenue Subway. [39] Lexington Avenue-63rd Street was originally a two level station with the BMT tracks hidden behind a now demolished wall with orange tiles. [40] Lexington Avenue–59th Street: BMT Broadway Line N
The modern line begins as a split from the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at a flying junction immediately south of 59th Street.Between the station and the split, crossover switches are provided between the local and express tracks of the Fourth Avenue Line, and then the express tracks curve east under the northbound local track to become the beginning of the Sea Beach Line.
The BMT Broadway Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Manhattan.As of November 2016, it is served by four services, all colored yellow: the N and Q trains on the express tracks and the R and W trains on the local tracks during weekdays (the N and Q trains make local stops during late nights, as do the N and R trains on weekends).
The Fifth Avenue–59th Street station (signed as Fifth Avenue) is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway.Located under Grand Army Plaza near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan, it is served by the N train at all times, the W train on weekdays during the day, and the R train at all times except late nights.
This new route was used by the BMT Brighton local, which formerly ran to Astoria, for service to Forest Hills along with the IND GG local. [4] [5] The next year saw the new extension of the IND Fulton Street Line (A train) in Brooklyn connected to the rebuilt section of the former BMT Fulton Street elevated at 80th Street in Queens in April 1956.
59th Street–Columbus Circle (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line); serving the 1 and 2 trains; Fifth Avenue–59th Street (BMT Broadway Line) in Manhattan, New York; serving the N, R, and W trains; Lexington Avenue/59th Street (New York City Subway), a subway station complex in Manhattan, New York consisting of: