59th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)
59th St. | |||||||||||||||
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| Former Manhattan Railway elevated station | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | West 59th Street and 9th Avenue, New York, NY Upper Manhattan, Manhattan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°46′9.15″N 73°59′5.16″W / 40.7692083°N 73.9847667°W | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Interborough Rapid Transit Company | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Ninth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | June 9, 1879 | ||||||||||||||
| Closed | June 11, 1940[1] | ||||||||||||||
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The 59th Street station was a local station on the demolished
66th Street
.
On September 11, 1905, 12 people were killed and 42 injured in the Ninth Avenue derailment when a train that had just left the station was wrongly switched onto the curve at 53rd Street.
References
- ^ "Tonight to See City Pass Goal of Unification". New York Daily News. June 10, 1940. p. 37. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
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