Lexington Avenue/51st Street station
Lexington Avenue/51 Street | |||||||||||||
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| New York City Subway station complex | |||||||||||||
Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street plaza entrance | |||||||||||||
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| Address | East 53rd Street & Lexington Avenue New York, New York | ||||||||||||
| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||
| Locale | Midtown Manhattan | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′25″N 73°58′19″W / 40.757075°N 73.971977°W | ||||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT), B (IND) | ||||||||||||
| Line | IRT Lexington Avenue Line IND Queens Boulevard Line | ||||||||||||
| Services | 4 (late nights) 6 (all times) <6> (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction) E (all times) M (weekdays during the day) | ||||||||||||
| Transit | NYCT Bus: M50, M101, M102, M103 MTA Bus: BxM1 | ||||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | June 26, 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 11,339,465 16.3% | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 14 out of 423 | ||||||||||||
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The Lexington Avenue/51st Street station is a New York City Subway station complex on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line. The station is located on Lexington Avenue and stretches from 51st Street to 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. It is served by the 6 and E trains at all times; the M train on weekdays during the day; the <6> train during weekdays in the peak direction; and the 4 train during late nights.
The complex comprises two stations: 51st Street on the Lexington Avenue Line and Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (originally Lexington–Third Avenues) on the Queens Boulevard Line. Originally two separate stations, these were connected in 1988 via a transfer passage, which was opened with the construction of 599 Lexington Avenue. Approximately 50,000 riders transfer between the Lexington Avenue and Queens Boulevard Lines each weekday.
In 2019, the station complex had an annual ridership of 18,957,465, making it the tenth-busiest in the system.