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6 train stops8/9/2023 The city, the BRT, and the IRT reached an agreement and sent a report to the New York City Board of Estimate on June 5, 1911, wherein the line along Broadway to 59th Street was assigned to the BRT. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT after 1923, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation or BMT ) submitted a proposal to the Commission, dated March 2, 1911, to operate the Tri-borough system (but under Church Street instead of Greenwich Street), as well as a branch along Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 59th Street from Ninth Street north and east to the Queensboro Bridge the Canal Street subway was to merge with the Broadway Line instead of continuing to the Hudson River. In early 1908, the Tri-borough plan was formed, combining this route, the under-construction Centre Street Loop Subway in Manhattan and Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn, a Canal Street subway from the Fourth Avenue Subway via the Manhattan Bridge to the Hudson River, and several other lines in Brooklyn. After crossing under the Harlem River into the Bronx, the route split at Park Avenue and 138th Street, with one branch continuing north to and along Jerome Avenue to Woodlawn Cemetery, and the other heading east and northeast along 138th Street, Southern Boulevard, and Westchester Avenue to Pelham Bay Park. This route began at the Battery and ran under Greenwich Street, Vesey Street, Broadway to Ninth Street, private property to Irving Place, and Irving Place and Lexington Avenue to the Harlem River. The New York Public Service Commission adopted plans for what was known as the Broadway–Lexington Avenue route on December 31, 1907. History Construction and planning įollowing the completion of the original subway line operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), there were plans to construct the Broadway–Lexington Avenue Line along Manhattan's east side. In addition, the express train stops here during weekdays in peak direction.Ī free out-of-system MetroCard/ OMNY transfer is available to the 63rd Street Lines ( F and Q trains, as well as rush-hour N and R trains) by exiting the station and walking to the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station. It is served by the 4, 6, and N trains at all times, the W train on weekdays during the day, and the 5 and R trains at all times except late nights. The station complex is the fourteenth-busiest in the system, with over 21 million passengers in 2016. It is located at Lexington Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets, on the border of Midtown and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 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. Stops rush hours in the peak direction only rush hour trip in the northbound direction only) at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street N (limited weekday rush hour service only) 6 (all times) (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)į (all times) (two rush hour trains, peak direction) Street stair by southeast corner of 59th Street and Lexington Avenue (the Q train served this station between 20, when the W did not run)Ĥ0☄5′45″N 73★8′04″W / 40.762471°N 73.9679°W / 40.762471 -73.9679
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