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57th Street Subway Station (F) (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York
 invisible, metro station, do not draw title

F (all times)

57th Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 57th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the F train at all times. North of the station, the line turns east and becomes the IND 63rd Street Line.

57 Street-6 Avenue opened in 1968 as part of the Crystie Street connection to provide the IND with a northern terminal station in the heart of Midtown similarly to 57 Street-7 Avenue for the BMT Broadway Line. A sad fact about the station in terms of subway expansion is that the over 40 year old station out of all 468 subway stations, it is the 7th or 8th newest (depending upon if the new South Ferry Station is considered new or not)

57th Street Station appears in the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Gangsters Harry and Marv can be seen exiting onto Sixth Avenue from the station. The JFK Express label is still visible.57th Street Station also appears in the 2011 film "A Very Harold And Kumar 3D Christmas" in the scene when Harold and Kumar are carrying a Christmas tree "Neil Patrick Harris" gave them before getting kidnapped by the Ukrainian mobsters.57th Street Also appears in the movie Beat Street 1984, where the battle between the Rock Steady Crew and the New York City Breakers take place.

www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Station:_57th_Street_(6th_Avenue...
subwaynut.com/ind/57f/index.php
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Coordinates:   40°45'50"N   73°58'38"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago