Lexington Avenue/59th Street station
Lexington Avenue/59 Street | |||||||||||||
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| New York City Subway station complex | |||||||||||||
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) | |||||||||||||
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| Address | East 59th Street & Lexington Avenue New York, New York | ||||||||||||
| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||
| Locale | Midtown Manhattan, Upper East Side | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′45″N 73°58′04″W / 40.762471°N 73.9679°W | ||||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT), B (BMT) | ||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Broadway Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | ||||||||||||
| Services | 4 (all times) 5 (all times except late nights) 6 (all times) <6> (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction) N (all times) R (all times except late nights) W (weekdays only) | ||||||||||||
| System transfers | With MetroCard or OMNY only: F (all times) <F> (two rush hour trains, peak direction) N (limited weekday rush hour service only) Q (all times) R (one a.m. rush hour trip in the northbound direction only) at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street | ||||||||||||
| Transit | NYCT Bus: M101, M102, M103, Q32 MTA Bus: QM2, QM3, QM20 | ||||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||
| Levels | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned | ||||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 11,691,818 18.2% | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 12 out of 423 | ||||||||||||
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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 the fourteenth-busiest in the system, with over 21 million passengers in 2016.
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. In addition, the <6> express train stops here during weekdays in peak direction.
A 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.