(“Lexington Avenue/51st Street” is a New York City Subway station complex on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line)
Located on Lexington Avenue and stretching from 51st Street to 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, it is served by the:
- 6 and E trains at all times
- M trains during weekdays
- <6> trains during weekdays in the peak direction
- 4 trains during late nights
(the complex comprises two separate stations: 51st Street (Lexington Avenue Line) and Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (Queens Boulevard Line))
(in 2015, the station complex was ranked 11th in ridership, with 20,479,923 passengers entering the station)
(it is planned for the 55th Street station from Phase 3 of the Second Avenue Subway to connect to this complex)
(originally 2 separate stations, the Lexington Avenue–53rd Street IND station and 51st Street IRT station are now connected via a transfer passage, which was opened in 1988 upon the completion of ‘599 Lexington Avenue’)