Lexington Avenue–63rd Street

Lexington Avenue–63rd Street is a New York City Subway station in Lenox Hill, Manhattan, shared by the IND and BMT 63rd Street Lines. Located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, it is served by the F and Q trains at all times, and by some N trains during rush hours. The station has two platform levels; trains headed southbound to downtown and Brooklyn use the upper level, while trains headed northbound to uptown and Queens, use the lower level.The station was expanded as part of the construction of the Second Avenue Subway, which the N and Q trains use. Trains to and from the Second Avenue Subway began stopping here on January 1, 2017. Because of the construction, the station's original red-orange wall tiles were removed, and beige-white wall tiles were installed; in addition, a never-opened entrance at Third Avenue was redesigned and opened to the public.HistoryConstructionThe current 63rd Street Line was the final version of proposals for a northern midtown tunnel from the IND Queens Boulevard Line to the Second and Sixth Avenue Lines, which date back to the IND Second System of the 1920s and 1930s. The current plans were drawn up in the 1960s under the MTA's Program For Action.