57th Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)
- 57th Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)
Infobox NYCS
name = 57th Street
bg_color = #FF6E1A
line = IND Sixth Avenue Line
service = 63rd IND
platforms = 1 island platform
tracks = 2
passengers = 4.249 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = .7
borough = Manhattan
open_date = July 1, 1968
north_station = Lexington Avenue/63rd Street
north_station_acc = yes
north_line = 63rd Street Line
north_service = 63rd IND
south_station = 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center
south_line = IND Sixth Avenue Line
south_service = 63rd IND
57th Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 57th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the NYCS|F train at all times.
This station features one of the last surviving telephone booths, located inside one of the three fare control areas at mezzanine level. The door on the booth is broken. A plaque dedicated to retired Colonel John T. O'Neill, who served as the New York City Transit Authority's Chief Engineer until his death in 1978, sits next to the booth on the west wall. The island platform is comparatively wide. There are six staircases to the platform and eight street staircases spread on both sides of Sixth Avenue from 56th to 57th Streets. The station walls are plain white, with "57th St" appearing on the wall.
This was one of two stations added during construction of the Chrystie Street Connection (the other being Grand Street). Except for the removal of exit slam gates at fare controls, much of the station design remains unchanged from 1968 opening. Even the "Next Train" indicator lights are still hanging from the platform ceiling, dating from the period when the station was a terminal. The tower and crew area still exists. It was abandoned after the 1989 63rd Street extension to 21st Street–Queensbridge, but was back in service in 1998 when trains from Sixth Avenue terminated here due to long term construction work that necessitated a shuttle train from Queensbridge to 57th Street on the BMT Broadway Line. Once all construction work was completed on the 63rd Street Connector to the IND Queens Boulevard Line in December 2001, the tower was permanently abandoned.
Bus connections
*M5
*M6
*M7
*M31
*M57
External links
*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?221:306|IND 6th Avenue|57th Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ftrain.htm F Train]
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