Lexington Avenue - 51st–53rd Streets Subway Station

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Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets is an underground station complex of the New York City Subway. It connects the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4,6,<6>) staion at Lexington & 51st Street, with the IND Queens Boulevard Line (E,M) station at Lexington & 53rd Street and is served by the: 6 and E trains at all times, M train during weekdays, <6> train weekdays in peak direction, and the 4 train during late nights.

In 2011, the station complex was ranked eleventh in ridership, with 18,948,032 passengers entering the station. It is planned for 55th Street station from Phase 3 of the Second Avenue Subway to connect to this complex.

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 4 and 5 trains during daytime hours, pass through a lower level and are not visible from the platforms.

Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street on the IND Queens Boulevard Line opened on August 19, 1933 and has two tracks and one island platform. It is eighty feet below street level, as the line had to pass beneath all of the north–south subway lines that were built before it. As a result, long escalators and staircases are required to reach the mezzanine from the platform.

The subterranean interior and exterior entrance of the station was used as a filming location for S1E9 of the HBO reboot of "Gossip Girl".

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