Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets (New York City Subway)

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: ' and trains at all times trains during weekdays<6> trains during weekdays in the peak direction trains during late nights The complex comprises two separate stations: 51st Street (Lexington Avenue Line) and Lexington Avenue–53rd Street' (Queens Boulevard Line).In 2016, the station complex was ranked eleventh in ridership, with 19,929,405 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 two 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.Station layoutA shopping arcade outside fare control leads to a staircase and elevator inside the south side of 132 East 53rd Street that go up to the northeast corner of East 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue. There is a token booth and turnstile bank leading to the passageway between the two lines, which was added in 1989. Outside fare control under the Citigroup Center, there are two stairs and an elevator. The passageway extends to the staircases and escalators going down to the IND platform and contains a turnstile bank in the center. In 2003, as part of efforts to ease crowding in the station, a mezzanine was added to connect the passageway to the Third Avenue end of the IND station.