Fifth Avenue – 59th Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Fifth Avenue – 59th Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Downtown platform

Station statistics

Address

60th Street & Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10023

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Midtown Manhattan, Upper East Side

Coordinates

40°45′53″N 73°58′21″W / 40.764779°N 73.972621°WCoordinates: 40°45′53″N 73°58′21″W / 40.764779°N 73.972621°W

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Broadway Line

Services

      N (all times)
      Q (weekdays)
      R (all except late nights)

Transit connections

New York City Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, Q32

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 1, 1919^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

6,017,047^[3]

2.2%

Rank

71 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

Lexington Avenue / 59th Street: N Q R

Next south

57th Street – Seventh Avenue: N Q R

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops weekdays only

Location
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Fifth Avenue – 59th Street is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan, it is served by the N train at all times, the Q train on weekdays, and the R train at all times except late nights.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	← toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach (57th Street – Seventh Avenue) ← toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue via Brighton (weekdays) (57th Street – Seventh Avenue) ← toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (57th Street – Seventh Avenue)
	Northbound	→ ( weekdays) toward Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard (Lexington Avenue / 59th Street) → → toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (Lexington Avenue / 59th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Mosaics

Directional mosaics

The full-time side of the station at the north end by 60th Street has three street staircases, one carved into the outer perimeter of Central Park and the other two across Fifth Avenue. Replicas of BMT directional mosaics “QUEENS TRAINS” and “BROOKLYN TRAINS” are found on this side. The part-time side at Central Park South, just by the Plaza Hotel, formerly had a booth (closed in 2003) and three street staircases as well. Each mezzanine has one stair to each platform. Mosaics “5”, “Fifth Ave,” and the directional signs on each platform, are fully preserved with new tiles encircling around them.

This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The MTA fixed the station's structure and overall appearance, 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. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In 2002, the station received a major overhaul. It received state-of-art repairs as well as an upgrade of the station for ADA compliance and restoration the original late 1910s tiling. The MTA repaired the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, installed new tiling on the floors, upgraded the station's lights and the public address system, and installed ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edges, new signs, and new track-beds in both directions.

Artwork here was made in 1997 by Ann Schaumburger and is called Urban Oasis. It uses glass mosaic murals to depict families of different types of animals, particularly for the nearby Central Park Zoo.

References

↑ New York Times, Subway to Open Two New Stations, August 31, 1919, page 25
↑ NYC Subway Wireless
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.

External links

Entrance on east side of Central Park

Media related to Fifth Avenue (BMT Broadway Line) at Wikimedia Commons
nycsubway.org—BMT Broadway Subway: Fifth Avenue
Station Reporter — N Train
Station Reporter — R Train
MTA's Arts For Transit — 5th Avenue – 59th Street (BMT Broadway Line)
Fifth Avenue and 60th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Central Park South entrance from Google Maps Street View
Central Park South lobby from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations

Broadway Line	[← to Queens Plaza, Queens Blvd. Line via 60th Street Tunnel and connection / ← to Queensboro Plaza, Astoria Line via 60th Street Tunnel) Lexington Avenue / 59th Street Fifth Avenue – 59th Street [← to Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street, 63rd Street Lines] 57th Street – Seventh Avenue 49th Street Times Square – 42nd Street 34th Street – Herald Square 28th Street 23rd Street 14th Street Eighth Street – New York University Prince Street Canal Street [to DeKalb Avenue, 4th Ave./Brighton Lines via Manhattan Bridge →] City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street South Ferry – Whitehall Street [to Court Street – Borough Hall, 4th Ave. Line via Montague Street Tunnel →]

See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Stations and line segments in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

Central Park

Features

Geographical features	Cedar Hill Cherry Hill Conservatory Garden Conservatory Water Great Lawn / Turtle Pond Harlem Meer Onassis Reservoir The Pond and Hallett Nature Sanctuary The Ramble and Lake Seneca Village Sheep Meadow

Sculptures	107th Infantry Memorial Balto Christopher Columbus Cleopatra's Needle Daniel Webster Eagles and Prey The Falconer Fitz-Greene Halleck Giuseppe Mazzini Indian Hunter King Jagiello Monument Robert Burns Romeo and Juliet Samuel Finley Breese Morse Seventh Regiment Memorial Sir Walter Scott The Gates (former) Untermyer Fountain USS Maine National Monument Victor Herbert William Shakespeare

Other features	Arsenal Belvedere Castle Bethesda Terrace and Fountain Blockhouse Bridges Burnett Memorial Fountain Carousel Delacorte Theater Diana Ross Playground Fort Clinton Lasker Rink Mall Marionette Theatre McGowan's Pass McGown's Pass Tavern Richard Morris Hunt Memorial Rumsey Playfield Strawberry Fields Tavern on the Green Victorian Gardens Wollman Rink Zoo Escape hoax Zoo York Wall Zoo York

Events

Neighboring features

Streets	Border Streets Fifth (East) North South West Transverses 66th 79th 85th 97th

Subway stations	Fifth Avenue – 59th Street 59th Street – Columbus Circle 72nd Street 81st Street 86th Street 96th Street 103rd Street Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street Central Park North – 110th Street

People and animals

Miscellaneous

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