Lexington Avenue/59th Street station
The Lexington Avenue/59th Street station 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 the fourteenth-busiest in the system, with over 21 million passengers in 2016.
Street stair by southeast corner of 59th Street and Lexington Avenue (the Q train served this station between 2010 and 2016, when the W did not run)
A southbound local 6 train of R62As on the upper level
Lexington Avenue/59th Street station
Station mosaic name tablet on the upper level
IRT Lexington Avenue Line
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line is one of the lines of the A Division of the New York City Subway, stretching from Lower Manhattan north to 125th Street in East Harlem. The line is served by the 4, 5, 6, and <6> trains.
First earth from Lexington Avenue subway line in 1913
Brochure for the opening of the 59th Street express platforms