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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 ...
Station sign describing the out-of-system transfer to Lexington Avenue–59th Street station. This station opened on October 29, 1989, [ 51 ] along with the entire IND 63rd Street Line. [ 2 ] [ 52 ] The Q train served the station on weekdays and the B train stopped there on weekends and late nights; both services used the Sixth Avenue Line. [ 2 ]
Now the only permanent MetroCard subway-to-subway transfers are between the Lexington Avenue/59th Street complex (4, 5, 6, <6> , N, R, and W trains) and the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station (F, <F> , N, Q, and R trains) in Manhattan and between the Junius Street (2, 3, 4, and 5 trains) and Livonia Avenue (L train) stations in Brooklyn.
N R W (BMT Broadway Line at Lexington Avenue–59th Street) Out-of-system transfer with MetroCard/OMNY: F <F> N Q R (63rd Street Lines at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street) Roosevelt Island Tramway This station was originally a local station. The lower level for express trains was opened in 1962. 51st Street: local 4 6 <6>
The 59th Street station is an express station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 59th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn , it is served by the N and R trains at all times.
The line runs west as a two-track subway line under 60th Street (east of Fifth Avenue) and 59th Street (west of Fifth Avenue), with stations at Lexington Avenue/59th Street and Fifth Avenue/59th Street. It then turns south to Seventh Avenue into the 57th Street–Seventh Avenue station. [5]
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To compensate for the loss of a free transfer between the F and 6 trains, the MTA added a free out-of-system transfer between the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station and the Lexington Avenue/59th Street station. [100] By the early 2000s, the MTA was planning to spend $74.7 million on further renovations, including a new passageway.