Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

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New York City Subway station Lexington Avenue–53rd Street
Station information
Line	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services	E V(123)
Transfer	4(5) 6 <6>(1a2a) at 51st Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other
Opened	August 19, 1933
Next north	23rd Street–Ely Avenue E V(123)
Next south	Fifth Avenue–53rd Street E V(123)

Lexington Avenue–53rd Street is a rapid transit station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It has two tracks and one island platform. It is eighty feet below the street, as the line had to pass beneath all of the north–south subway lines that were built before it. Elevators were last renovated in 2005. The pair of escalators at the west end of the station were once recorded to be the longest in the world.^[1] There is a transfer to the 51st Street station on the Lexington Avenue Line at the top of these escalators, which was completed in 1989. As a result, this station has become the sixth busiest in the system, even though it is a local station on the Lexington Avenue line.^[2]

A passageway connecting to 51st Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was added in 1989.

Connections can be made to M98, M101, M102, and M103 buses.

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[edit] External links

• nycsubway.org — IND Queens Boulevard Line: Lexington Avenue/53rd Street
• Station Reporter — 51st Street/Lexington Avenue Complex