Back Calle 59–Avenida Lexington (metro de Nueva York) Spanish Lexington Avenue / 59th Street (métro de New York) French Lexington Avenue/59th Street Italian レキシントン・アベニュー/59丁目駅 Japanese Lexington Avenue/59th Street Dutch Lexington Avenue / 59th Street Polish Лексингтон-авеню — 59-я улица (Нью-Йоркское метро) Russian Lexington Avenue/59th Street station SIMPLE 萊辛頓大道／59街車站 Chinese
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)[1] | ||||||||||||
| 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[2] | ||||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||
| Levels | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1948[3] | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned | ||||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 11,691,818[4]  18.2% | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 12 out of 423[4] | ||||||||||||
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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.[5]
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.
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ "Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ "Transfer Points Under Higher Fare". The New York Times. June 30, 1948. p. 19. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.