Lexington Avenue-51st Street (New York City Subway)
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| New York City Subway station Lexington Avenue-51st Street |
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| Services | 4 (5) 6 <6> (12) (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) E V (123) (IND Queens Boulevard Line) |
| Borough | Manhattan |
Lexington Avenue-51st Street is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the IND Queens Boulevard Line. Located between Lexington and Third Avenues and between 51st and 53rd Streets in East Midtown Manhattan, it is served by:
The passageway connecting the Lexington Avenue Line and Queens Boulevard Line stations was added in 1989, when the Citibank building was constructed.
Portions of the station are persistently malodorous. The passageway from the southbound 6 tracks to the E/V connector is especially bad.
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[edit] IRT Lexington Avenue Line
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| Line | IRT Lexington Avenue Line |
| Services | 4 (5) 6 <6> (12) |
| Platforms | 2 side platforms (upper level only) |
| Tracks | 4 (2 on each of 2 levels) |
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| Opened | July 17, 1918 |
| Next North | 59th Street 4 (5) 6 <6> (12) |
| Next South | 42nd Street-Grand Central 4 (5) 6 <6> (12) |
51st Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line is a local stop with two tracks and two side platforms. The express tracks pass through a lower level, and are not visible from the station. This was the sixth busiest station in the entire subway system in 1994.[1]
The station features beige brick over the original tile, but the standard IRT-style mosaics were saved. There is a crossunder at the north end, with a passageway to the Queens Boulevard Line, completed in 1989. The fare control is seven steps up from the platform level, and the platforms themselves are approximately 25 feet below street level.
[edit] IND Queens Boulevard Line
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| Line | IND Queens Boulevard Line |
| Services | E V (123) |
| Platforms | 1 island platform |
| Tracks | 2 |
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| Opened | August 19, 1933 |
| Next North | 23rd Street-Ely Avenue E V (123) |
| Next South | Fifth Avenue-53rd Street E V (123) |
Lexington Avenue–53rd Street on the IND Queens Boulevard Line has two tracks and one island platform. It is eighty feet below the street, as the line had to pass beneath all of the north–south subway lines thatwere built before it. Elevators have recently been installed. The pair of escalators at the west end of the station were once recorded to be the longest in the world.[1] There is a transfer to the 51st Street station on the Lexington Avenue Line at the top of these escalators, which was completed in the 1989. As a result, this station has become the sixth busiest in the system.[2]
[edit] Bus connection
[edit] Notes
- ^ IND Queens Boulevard Line: Lexington Avenue/53rd Street, nycsubway.org. Accessed on August 6, 2006.
- ^ IRT East Side line: 51 Street, nycsubway.org. Accessed on 9 June 2005.
[edit] External links
- nycsubway.org — IRT East Side Line: 51st Street
- nycsubway.org — IND Queens Boulevard Line: Lexington Avenue/53rd Street
- Station Reporter — 51st Street/Lexington Avenue Complex
