Seventh Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Seventh Avenue

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bg_color = #11117D
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
line_2 = IND Sixth Avenue Line
service = Queens 53rd Seventh
platforms = 2 island platforms (1 on each of 2 levels)
tracks = 4 (2 on each of 2 levels)
passengers = 3.886 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = 8
borough = Manhattan
open_month_day = August 19
open_year = 1933
north_custom_station = NYCS next|type=6th Avenue|station=59th Street–Columbus Circle|line=IND Eighth Avenue Line|service=Sixth north
north_custom_station_2 = NYCS next|type=Queens Boulevard|station=Fifth Avenue/53rd Street|line=IND Queens Boulevard Line|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 north
south_custom_station_2 = NYCS next|type=Queens Boulevard|station=50th Street|line=IND Queens Boulevard Line|service=Queens 53rd west|access=southbound

Seventh Avenue is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan, it is served by the NYCS service|D and NYCS service|E trains at all times, and the NYCS service|B train weekdays. The station is occasionally called Seventh Avenue–53rd Street, in the style of other stations along 53rd Street (such as Fifth Avenue/53rd Street and Lexington Avenue–53rd Street).

It is a two-level station, with two tracks on each level and two island platforms, one over the other. The upper level serves trains headed railroad north (to Central Park West for trains from the Sixth Avenue Line, to Queens for trains from the Eighth Avenue Line). The lower level is the reverse. The BMT Broadway Line passes overhead near the west end of the station; this crossing is visible in the ceiling and supporting columns.

The station, which is oriented east–west along 53rd Street, serves two distinct subway lines that do not interconnect. On the IND Sixth Avenue Line, "northbound" trains (heading west through the station) join the IND Eighth Avenue Line headed uptown along Central Park West, while "southbound" trains (headed east through the station) head downtown along Sixth Avenue. On the IND Queens Boulevard Line, "northbound" trains (heading east through the station) go to Queens via the 53rd Street Tunnel, while "southbound trains" (headed west through the station) head downtown along Eighth Avenue. Although connections would appear to exist on the subway map, a downtown Sixth Avenue train coming from Central Park West cannot continue to Queens, and an uptown Sixth Avenue train cannot turn downtown along Eighth Avenue.

This is one of two stations on the NYCS service|B service named "Seventh Avenue," the other is Seventh Avenue on the BMT Brighton Line.

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:390|IND Queens Boulevard Line|7th Avenue/53rd Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/btrain.htm B Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/dtrain.htm D Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/etrain.htm E Train]