50th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

50th Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Downtown platform on upper level

Station statistics

Address

West 50th Street & Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Hell's Kitchen, Midtown Manhattan

Coordinates

40°45′44″N 73°59′10″W / 40.762276°N 73.986139°WCoordinates: 40°45′44″N 73°59′10″W / 40.762276°N 73.986139°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line
IND Queens Boulevard Line

Services

      A (late nights)
      C (all except late nights)
      E (all times)

Connection

New York City Bus: M20, M50, M104

Structure

Underground

Levels

Platforms

4 side platforms (2 on each level)

Tracks

6 (4 on upper level, 2 on lower level)

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1] (upper level)
August 19, 1933 (lower level)

Accessible

(southbound only)

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2014)

6,867,521^[3]

9.7%

Rank

64 out of 421

Station succession

Next north

59th Street – Columbus Circle (via 8th Avenue): A C
Seventh Avenue (Queens Boulevard): E

Next south

42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal: A C E

north

none; station is not accessible on the northbound platform.
(59th Street – Columbus Circle: A C )
(Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street: E )

south

42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal: A C E

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops in station at all times
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only
	Stops late nights and weekdays only
	Stops late nights and weekends only
	Stops weekends and weekend late nights
	Stops weekdays and weekday late nights
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops weekends only
	Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction
	Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops rush hours only
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
	Station is closed
(Details about time periods)

50th Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, located at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance (Elevator on north side of 49th Street west of Eighth Avenue for southbound trains only)
B2	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (59th Street)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (42nd Street – PABT) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B3	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound Queens Boulevard line	← toward Jamaica Center (Seventh Avenue)
	Wall
	Southbound Queens Boulevard line	→ toward World Trade Center (42nd Street – PABT) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Escalator from the lower level southbound platform

This station is a bi-level station. The upper level is fed by Eighth Avenue local trains from Central Park West—usually the C, except when it is replaced by the A during late nights. It has four tracks and two side platforms. The center express tracks carry Eighth Avenue express trains (the A) only during the day. Fare control is at platform level.

The lower level is fed by E trains from the Queens Boulevard Line at all times. It has two tracks and two side platforms, separated by a curtain wall. The northbound track of the lower level is fed by the northbound local and express tracks at 42nd Street. In the southbound direction, lower level trains may access either the Eighth Avenue local or express tracks; until recently, they also had the option of running to the abandoned lower level of 42nd Street. The two levels are offset, with the upper level running from 50th to 52nd Streets and the lower from 49th to 51st. Neither level has crossover or crossunder between directions, although level-to-level transfer in the same direction is possible.

The southbound side of 50th Street has an expanded mezzanine area, with exits to West 49th and West 50th Streets; it also has two ADA-accessible elevators (one from the street to the mezzanine, the other from the mezzanine to the upper- and lower-level platforms). This mezzanine was reconstructed during the construction of the Worldwide Plaza Complex. An untitled etched-granite piece of artwork by Matt Mulligan was installed on the downtown upper level platform in 1989 and features neighborhood life. Renovation, including addition of an elevator on the uptown side of the station, is planned for the current 2005–2009 MTA Capital Program and will reopen many closed stairways to the lower level. The downtown side has an escalator to the lower level and exits into a building façade. In contrast to the downtown platforms, the uptown platforms lack elevators and are not ADA-accessible. There are closed exits at 51st and 52nd Streets.

In popular culture

In the Nickelodeon series Taina (2001-2002), the main character of the same name in the theme song opening is seen exiting the station as well as some shots of a local train entering the station. Also during the show's five second break showed some shots of the station as passengers getting off, and an express train bypassing the station on the express track.

Image gallery

Mosaics
Street Stair

References

↑ New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ NYC Subway Wireless
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2015-04-22.

External links

Media related to 50th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons

nycsubway.org—IND 8th Avenue: 50th Street
nycsubway.org — Untitled Artwork by Matt Mullican (1989)
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — E Train
MTA's Arts For Transit — 50th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
50th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
51st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
49th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations

8th Ave. Line	Inwood – 207th Street Dyckman Street 190th Street 181st Street 175th Street 168th Street 163rd Street – Amsterdam Avenue 155th Street [← to 155th Street, Concourse Line] 145th Street 135th Street 125th Street 116th Street Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street 81st Street – Museum of Natural History 72nd Street 59th Street – Columbus Circle [to Seventh Avenue, 6th Ave. Line → / ← to Seventh Avenue, Queens Blvd. Line] 50th Street 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal 34th Street – Penn Station 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street – Washington Square Spring Street Canal Street Chambers Street – World Trade Center Fulton Street High Street Jay Street – MetroTech [to Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets, Fulton St. Line →]

Queens Blvd. Line	[← to 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal, 8th Ave. Line] 50th Street Seventh Avenue Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street Court Square – 23rd Street [← to Lexington Avenue / 59th Street\|, Broadway Line via 60th Street Tunnel and connection / ← ~~to Court Square, Crosstown Line~~] Queens Plaza [← to 21st Street – Queensbridge, 63rd Street Lines] 36th Street Steinway Street 46th Street Northern Boulevard 65th Street Jackson Heights – Roosevelt Avenue Elmhurst Avenue Grand Avenue – Newtown Woodhaven Boulevard 63rd Drive – Rego Park 67th Avenue 71st Avenue 75th Avenue Kew Gardens – Union Turnpike Briarwood [to Jamaica – Van Wyck, Archer Avenue Lines →] Sutphin Boulevard Parsons Boulevard 169th Street Jamaica – 179th Street

See also: List by borough (The Bronx • Brooklyn • Manhattan • Queens) • Accessible • Closed • Terminals • Transfer Stations in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.