57th Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 57th Street
bg_color = #FFC800
font_color = black
font_color_2 = black
line = BMT Broadway Line
service = Broadway north
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
passengers = 8.497 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = .6
borough = Manhattan
open_date = July 10, 1919New York Times, [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E12FC395B11728DDDA90994DF405B898DF1D3 Broadway End of Subway Opened] , July 10, 1919, page 36]
north_station=Fifth Avenue/59th Street
north_line=BMT Broadway Line
north_service=Broadway 60th
north_custom_station = NYCS next|type=63rd|station=Lexington Avenue–63rd Street|line=BMT 63rd Street Line|acc=yes|service=63rd BMT
south_line = BMT Broadway Line
south_local_station = 49th Street
south_local_station_acc = northbound
south_local_service = Broadway north local
south_express_station = Times Square–42nd Street
south_express_station_acc = yes
south_express_service = Broadway north express

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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 Seventh Avenue. It is sometimes referred to as 57th Street–Seventh Avenue to distinguish it from 57th Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line, which runs underneath Sixth 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 NYCS|N, NYCS|R, and NYCS|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 NYCS|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 NYCS|R trains when construction necessitates bypassing the 60th Street Tunnel. Future plans provide for NYCS|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 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. Staircases and platform edges were also repaired.

In the early 1990s, the station was 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 threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

Bus connections

*M6
*M7
*M30
*M31
*M57

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?202:3231|BMT Broadway Subway|57th Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ntrain.htm N Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/qtrain.htm Q Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/wtrain.htm W Train]