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Lower Manhattan-bound upper level platform looking east towards Queens |
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| Address | Fifth Avenue & 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Midtown Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IND Queens Boulevard Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | E (all times) M (weekdays at all hours except late nights) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms (1 on each level) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 (1 on each level) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 19, 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 6,309,404[1] 4.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 63 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street: E M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | Seventh Avenue (8th Avenue): E 47th–50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (6th Avenue): M |
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Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan, it is served by the E train at all times and the M train weekdays except late nights.
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This underground station, opened on August 19, 1933, has two levels with the upper level serving trains bound for Lower Manhattan and the lower level serving trains bound for Queens. Each level has one track and one side platform. The upper level, built in a tube design, is approximately 60 feet below street level while the lower level is 80 feet below. Staircases connect each level at either ends.
The station has two entrances/exits. The full-time one is at the west (railroad south) end. Two long escalators and one staircase goes up to a turnstile bank, where a token booth is present. A passageway leads to two staircases going up to either eastern corners of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. There is another staircase that leads to the underground shopping arcade of 666 Fifth Avenue.
The station has a part-time entrance/exit at the east (railroad north) end that has a turnstile bank, customer assistance booth, and two staircases, both of which are built within underground shopping arcades, going up to either western corner of Madison Avenue 53rd Streets.
This is a junction west of this station that is controlled by a tower on the south end of the upper level platform. E trains continue west along 53rd Street while M trains turn south and enter the IND Sixth Avenue Line.
In 1996, Ralph Fasanella's 1950 painting "Subway Riders" was installed and is one of the few oil paintings in the world permanently on view in a public transportation center. It is located outside fare control in the full-time mezzanine.
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