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Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets 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 In 2013, the station complex was ranked tenth in ridership, with 20,262,110 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. ==IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms== 51st Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, opened on July 17, 1918, is a local station with two local tracks and two side platforms. The two express tracks, used by the and trains during daytime hours, pass through a lower level and are not visible from the platforms. The station features modern beige bricks over the original tiles, but the standard IRT-style mosaics remain intact. There is a crossunder at the extreme north end of the platforms with an elevator on each side and an escalator on the Brooklyn Bridge-bound side. A ceramic artwork called ''Tunnel Vision'' by Nina Yankowitz was installed here in 1989. A passageway, built in 1989, connects to the fare control areas and platforms of the IND Queens Boulevard Line beyond the crossunder on the northbound side. The platforms are approximately 25 feet below street level and the station's full-time fare control areas are at the center of each. A staircase of seven steps goes up to a turnstile bank and outside fare control, there is a token booth and four street stairs. The ones on the Bronx-bound side go up either eastern corners of Lexington Avenue and East 51st Street while the ones on the Brooklyn Bridge-bound side go up to either western corners. The Brooklyn Bridge-bound platform has a part-time fare control area near the south end. A seven-step staircase goes up to a turnstile bank and outside fare control, there is a customer assistance booth and one staircase going up to the front entrance of the Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel on the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and East 50th Street.〔Station Reporter — (51st Street/Lexington Avenue Complex )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets (New York City Subway)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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