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The Fifth Avenue–59th Street station is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located under Grand Army Plaza near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan, it is served by the N train at all times, the W train on weekdays, and the R train at all times except late nights.

5 Avenue–59 Street  ​​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Platform view
Station statistics
Address	East 60th Street & Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10023
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Midtown Manhattan, Upper East Side
Coordinates	40.764779°N 73.972621°W / 40.764779; -73.972621
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N  (all times) ​   R  (all times except late nights) ​   W  (weekdays only)
Transit	New York City Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, Q32, SIM3, SIM6, SIM6X, SIM8, SIM8X, SIM10, SIM22, SIM23, SIM24, SIM25, SIM26, SIM30, SIM31
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	September 1, 1919; 102 years ago (1919-09-01)[2]
Station code	008[3]
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2019	4,995,128[4]  2.8%
Rank	93 out of 424[4]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station 57th Street–Seventh Avenue N  ​R  ​W  via Times Square–42nd Street Lexington Avenue–59th Street N  ​R  ​W  services split
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Lexington Av to 57 St
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops weekdays only

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach (57th Street–Seventh Avenue) ← toward Whitehall Street weekdays (57th Street–Seventh Avenue) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street except nights (57th Street–Seventh Avenue)
	Northbound	→ ( weekdays) toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (Lexington Avenue–59th Street) → → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Lexington Avenue–59th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

The station has two tracks and two side platforms, with a mezzanine above both the western and eastern ends of the station. Replicas of BMT directional mosaics “QUEENS TRAINS” and “BROOKLYN TRAINS” are found on the western exit. Each mezzanine has one stair to each platform. Mosaics “5”, “Fifth Ave,” and the directional signs on each platform, are fully preserved with new tiles encircling around them.

The station was operated by the BMT until the city government took over the BMT's operations on June 1, 1940.[5][6] This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The MTA fixed the station's structure and overall appearance, replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting with 1970s modern-look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In 2002, the station received a major overhaul. It received state-of-art repairs as well as an upgrade of the station for ADA compliance and restoration the original late 1910s tiling. The MTA repaired the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, installed new tiling on the floors, upgraded the station's lights and the public address system, and installed ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edges, new signs, and new track-beds in both directions.

Artwork here was made in 1997 by Ann Schaumburger and is called Urban Oasis. It uses glass mosaic murals to depict families of different types of animals, particularly for the nearby Central Park Zoo.

Exits

The full-time side of the station at the north end, at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, has three street staircases, one carved into the outer perimeter of Central Park (northwestern corner of that intersection) and the other two on either eastern corner of the intersection.[7] The part-time side at Central Park South, just by the Plaza Hotel, formerly had a booth (closed in 2003) and three street staircases as well: two carved inside Central Park's perimeter, on the northern side of Central Park South, and one to the southern side, inside a building just west of the Plaza Hotel.[7]

References

External links

• Media related to Fifth Avenue (BMT Broadway Line) at Wikimedia Commons
• nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Subway: Fifth Avenue
• Station Reporter — N Train
• Station Reporter — R Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit — 5th Avenue–59th Street (BMT Broadway Line)
• Fifth Avenue and 60th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Central Park South entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Central Park South lobby from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View

На других языках

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- [en] Fifth Avenue–59th Street station

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[ru] Пятая авеню — 59-я улица (линия Бродвея, Би-эм-ти)

«Пятая авеню — 59-я улица» (англ. Fifth Avenue/59th Street) — станция Нью-Йоркского метрополитена, расположенная на линии Бродвея, Би-эм-ти. Станция находится в Манхэттене, в округе Мидтаун, на пересечении Пятой авеню с 59-й улицей. На станции останавливаются маршруты: N (круглосуточно), R (круглосуточно, кроме ночи) и W (в будни днём и вечером до 23:00).

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