57th Street

57th Street New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	West 57th Street & 7th Avenue New York, NY 10019
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Midtown Manhattan
Coordinates	40°45′56″N 73°58′48″W / 40.765461°N 73.980088°W / 40.765461; -73.980088Coordinates: 40°45′56″N 73°58′48″W / 40.765461°N 73.980088°W / 40.765461; -73.980088
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N  (all times)      Q  (all times)      R  (all except late nights)      W  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)
Connection	New York City Bus: M6, M7, M10, M20, M30, M31, M57
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	July 10, 1919[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	9.132 million[2][3] ▲ 3.17%
Rank	32 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Fifth Avenue/59th Street: N  R  W  Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street (63rd): no regular service
Next south	49th Street (local): N  R  W  Times Square – 42nd Street (express): Q
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

57th Street is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway, located in Midtown Manhattan at the intersection of 57th Street and 7th Avenue. It is sometimes referred to as 57th Street – 7th Avenue to distinguish it from 57th Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line, which runs underneath 6th Avenue, and is also sometimes called Midtown – 57th Street.

With four tracks and two island platforms, this station is the northernmost express station on the BMT Broadway Line. The N, R, and W trains run on the local tracks, which continue north under 59th and 60th Streets to Queens. The express tracks are used for turning by Q trains, which use this station as their northern terminal. These express tracks actually continue northwards as the BMT 63rd Street Line to Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street; they are sometimes used by R trains when construction necessitates bypassing the 60th Street Tunnel. Future plans provide for Q service to continue past 57th Street under 63rd Street to the Second Avenue Subway, which is currently being built.

This station underwent an overhaul in the late 1970s. MTA fixed the station's structure and overhauled its appearance, including replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting with 1970s modern-look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. Staircases and platform edges were also repaired.

In 1992-1993, the station received a major overhaul with state of the art repairs as well as upgrading the station for ADA compliance. The original late 1910s tiling was restored, repairs were made to the staircases, new tiling on the floors, upgrades to the station's lights and public address system, installation of ADA safety treads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions. Accessibility to the mezzanine was further increased by the addition of an elevator on the southwest corner of 57th Street which is now open for use. While elevators have yet to be installed for platform access, it allows disabled access to the fare booth and metrocard machines.

North of this station are tunnel stub headings running straight from the local tracks for a proposed line under Central Park West or Morningside Avenue, and would have terminated at 145th Street. The tunnel stub was built by the BMT in hopes of convincing the City of New York to award the BMT the Central Park West/Morningside Avenue route. By building a tunnel stub heading in that direction, the BMT hoped that it would have a profit. The tunnel headings runs for about 500 feet and then abruptly ends. The tunnel headings curves slightly west before ending.

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — BMT Broadway Subway: 57th Street
• Station Reporter — N Train
• Station Reporter — R Train
• Station Reporter — Q Train
• Station Reporter — W Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit — 57th Street – 7th Avenue

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