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Upper platform for trains leaving for downtown Manhattan prior to reconstruction for connection to the Second Avenue Subway |
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| Address | Lexington Avenue & East 63rd Street New York, NY 10065 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Upper East Side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT/IND) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT 63rd Street Line IND 63rd Street Line |
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| Services | F (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System transfers | With MetroCard only: 4 5 6 <6> at 59th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) N Q R at Lexington Avenue / 59th Street (BMT Broadway Line) (Transfer stations are not accessible) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms (1 on each level, half of each in passenger service) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 (2 on each level) (1 in passenger service on each level) |
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| Opened | October 29, 1989[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 4,889,704[2] 22.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 85 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Roosevelt Island (63rd): F 72nd Street (2nd Ave): under construction |
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| Next south | 57th Street (6th Avenue): F 57th Street – Seventh Avenue (Broadway): no regular service |
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| Next north | Roosevelt Island (63rd): F 72nd Street (2nd Ave): under construction |
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| Next south | 47th–50th Streets – Rockefeller Center: F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street is a two-level station shared by the BMT and IND 63rd Street Lines of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, it is served by the F train at all times. Downtown-bound trains use the upper level, and Queens-bound trains use the lower level. The original wall tiles installed in this station were red-orange. There are a total of ten escalators, six staircases and two elevators. Two additional staircases between the platform levels are at the eastern end of platforms, past the elevator.
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From the street, there are two short escalators from the northwest corner, a staircase from the southwest corner, and a short elevator hidden around the corner from the escalators. From the fare control, there are three long escalators to an intermediate level, and then two long escalators to a lower mezzanine. Here, the bank splits and there are two separate tubes of two escalators each to each platform. The platform elevator has its own two turnstiles, and makes three stops (mezzanine, upper platform, lower platform).
The station may look like a typical one track, one side platform station, but on each level behind the station walls would reveal much more to the station. The walls taken down would expand the "side" platform into an island platform, also revealing an unused track. This track will be used for the connection between the BMT 63rd Street Line and the under construction Second Avenue Subway. When the station was built, it was decided to build a wall to separate the two tracks, as the IND (southern) tracks have always been used, while the BMT (northern) tracks have never seen regular service, only to be used for non-rush hour train storage. As part of the ongoing Second Avenue Subway construction, the walls are being taken down, as part of the preparation of the north side of each platform for future cross-platform interchange.
East of this station on the BMT side, the planned track connections to the Second Avenue Subway curve slightly north. After the tracks end, the roadbed goes on for a few hundred feet.[3][4]
East of this station on the IND side, the turnouts for a connection to Phase 3 of the Second Avenue Subway are clearly visible.[5] Also to the east but below the IND 63rd Street Line, the unused lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel is intended for the Long Island Railroad's East Side Access to Grand Central. It has not been used yet.
The station was built using a combination of cut-and-cover construction and tunneling machines.[6][7] Although the station was completed in 1983, when it was named the Construction Achievement Project of the Year by the Metropolitan Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, it did not open for passenger service until 1989 when the 63rd Street Tunnel was partially completed.[1][3][8]
When the 63rd Street Connector opened in 2001, a free out-of-system transfer to the Lexington Avenue / 59th Street station was added. This was to provide a transfer to the IRT Lexington Avenue Line for F train customers as such a connection had been provided at the Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street station along the previous routing of the F train.
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