Fifth Avenue/53rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
- Fifth Avenue/53rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
Infobox NYCS
name = Fifth Avenue/53rd Street
bg_color = #11117D
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
service = Queens 53rd
platforms = 2 side platforms (1 on each level)
tracks = 2 (1 on each level)
passengers = 6.989 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = 3
borough = Manhattan
open_date = August 19, 1933
north_station = Lexington Avenue–53rd Street
north_station_acc = yes
north_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
north_service = Queens 53rd
south_station = Seventh Avenue
south_line=IND Queens Boulevard Line
south_service=Queens 53rd west
south_custom_station = NYCS next|type=6th Avenue|station=47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center|line=IND Sixth Avenue Line|service=Sixth Queens
Fifth Avenue/53rd Street is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan, it is served by the NYCS service|E train at all times and the NYCS service|V train weekdays.
This is a two-level station, with the upper level serving trains bound for Lower Manhattan, and the lower level serving trains bound for Queens. A tower is on the south end of the upper platform, which controls the junction west of this station. The north exit leads to Madison Avenue while the south leads to Fifth Avenue. Escalators are used to access the upper platform from the mezzanine. Only stairs connect the lower platform to the upper platform. The upper platform is in a tube design. Due to excessively high traffic volume during rush hours, platform conductors are assigned to assist the train conductor in closing train doors.
The upper platform (trains going Downtown) is about sixty feet below ground level. The lower platform (trains to Queens) is approximately twenty feet below the upper platform, and therefore is about eighty feet below the street. This makes the lower platform one of the deepest in the system.
Artwork here by Ralph Fasanella dates from 1950 and is called "Subway Riders."
External links
*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:3191|IND Queens Boulevard Line|5th Avenue/53rd Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/etrain.htm E Train]
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