Seventh Avenue station (IND lines)
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Levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 island platforms (1 on each level) cross-platform interchange | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 (2 on each level) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | August 19, 1933 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessibility | Cross-platform wheelchair transfer available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former/other names | Seventh Avenue–53rd Street | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023 | 3,892,682[2] 25.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Seventh Avenue station (announced as Seventh Avenue–53rd Street) is an interchange station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line and the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan, it is served by the D and E trains at all times, and the B train on weekdays.
The Seventh Avenue station was constructed by the Independent Subway System (IND), and it opened on August 19, 1933. The station has two tracks and one island platform on each of two levels.
The station is announced as Seventh Avenue–53rd Street, in the style of other stations that orient east-west along 53rd Street (such as
History
Planning and opening
The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and was planned to stretch between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 178th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, with a stop at Seventh Avenue.[4][5] The line was first proposed in 1925.[6] Bids for the 53rd Street subway tunnel were received in October 1926,[7] and work started in April 1927.[8] The 53rd Street Tunnel was fully excavated between Queens and Manhattan in January 1929.[9]
The Seventh Avenue station was designed as an interchange point between service of the
20th century to present
In 1990, Utah tourist Brian Watkins was killed at the Seventh Avenue station while trying to protect his family from a robbery.[12] The murder was described as "probably the tipping point in New York’s history of violence and mayhem",[13] marking a low point in the record murder year of 1990 and leading to an increased police presence in New York.[14] Eight people were indicted:[15] the first trial found four of the eight defendants guilty of murder,[16] and a second trial found three of the remaining four defendants to also be guilty.[17] One defendant was later cleared of murder charges.[18]
In 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that the station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.[19] The announcement occurred after a Connecticut woman fell down a staircase trying to carry her 1-year-old daughter on a stroller down a flight of stairs; the baby survived the fall, but the mother died.[20][21]
Station layout
Ground | Street level | Exit/entrance |
Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines | |
Upper level | Southbound | ← toward World Trade Center (50th Street) |
Island platform | ||
Southbound | weekdays toward Brighton Beach (47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center) → toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center) → | |
Lower level | Northbound | toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Fifth Avenue/53rd Street) → |
Island platform | ||
Northbound | ← weekdays toward Bedford Park Boulevard or 145th Street (59th Street–Columbus Circle) ← toward Norwood–205th Street (59th Street–Columbus Circle) |
This is a two-level station, with two tracks on each level and two
The
The station serves two distinct subway lines that do not interconnect at the station. On the Sixth Avenue Line, uptown trains (heading west through the station) merge with the
Exits
This station has two main exits: one at the westbound end of the station at Broadway, and one in the middle of the station at Broadway. The westbound exit has staircases leading to the northeast and southeast corners of 53rd Street and Broadway. The middle exit has staircases leading to the northeast and southeast corners of 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue.[27]
References
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ See:
- Duffus, R.L. (September 22, 1929). "Our Great Subway Network Spreads Wider; New Plans of Board of Transportation Involve the Building of More Than One Hundred Miles of Additional Rapid Transit Routes for New York". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
- Board of Transportation of the City of New York Engineering Department, Proposed Additional Rapid Transit Lines And Proposed Vehicular Tunnel, dated August 23, 1929
- Duffus, R.L. (September 22, 1929). "Our Great Subway Network Spreads Wider; New Plans of Board of Transportation Involve the Building of More Than One Hundred Miles of Additional Rapid Transit Routes for New York". The New York Times.
- ^ "Queens Lauded as Best Boro By Chamber Chief". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 23, 1929. p. 40. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
- ProQuest 1113535669.
- ^ "L.I. City-Jamaica Subway To Open Between Plaza and Manhattan Next Year; City Will Extend Service With Completion of Each Section; Sullivan Reveals Plans of Board of Transportation" (PDF). Long Island Daily Star. Fultonhistory.com. March 15, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
- ^ *"TWO SUBWAY UNITS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT; Links in City-Owned System in Queens and Brooklyn to Have 15 Stations" (PDF). The New York Times. August 18, 1933. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- "New Queens Subway Service Will Be Launched Tonight; Tunnel From Manhattan Open to Jackson Heights; Service Will Eventually Be Extended Through To Jamaica" (PDF). Long Island Daily Press. Fultonhistory.com. August 18, 1933. p. 20. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
- "New Queens Tube To Open Saturday: Brooklyn-Long Island City Link of City Line Also to Be Put in Operation" (PDF). New York Evening Post. Fultonhistory.com. August 17, 1933. p. 18. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
- ^ "New Subway Line on 6th Ave. Opens at Midnight Fete". The New York Times. December 15, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ^ Hughes, Bill (October 26, 2010). "The Murder That Changed New York City". City Limits. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ^ "Press Release - MTA Headquarters - MTA Announces 20 Additional Subway Stations to Receive Accessibility Improvements Under Proposed 2020-2024 Capital Plan". MTA. December 19, 2019. Archived from the original on April 21, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
- ^ "Mom dies falling down stairs at NYC subway station as officials seek better accessibility". USA TODAY. January 30, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ "A Mother's Fatal Fall on Subway Stairs Rouses New Yorkers to Demand Accessibility". The New York Times. January 29, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "D Subway Timetable, Effective January 23, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "E Subway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "B Subway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Midtown West" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
External links
- nycsubway.org – IND Queens Boulevard Line: 7th Avenue/53rd Street
- Station Reporter — B Train
- Station Reporter — D Train
- Station Reporter — E Train
- Seventh Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Upper platform from Google Maps Street View