Fifth Avenue (BMT Broadway Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Fifth Avenue/59th Street
font_color = black
font_color_2 = black
bg_color = #FFC800


image_caption = Central Park stairway
line = BMT Broadway Line
service = Broadway 60th
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 2
borough = Manhattan
open_date = September 1, 1919New York Times, [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10611FC3E5E1A738DDDA80B94D0405B898DF1D3 Subway to Open Two New Stations] , August 31, 1919, page 25]
north_station = Lexington Avenue/59th Street
north_line = BMT Broadway Line
north_service = Broadway 60th
south_station = 57th Street
south_line = BMT Broadway Line
south_service = Broadway 60th

Fifth Avenue/59th Street is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan, it is served by the NYCS|N train (all times), the NYCS|R train (all times except late nights), and the NYCS|W train (weekdays).

The full time side of the station at the north end by 60th Street has three street staircases, one carved into the outer perimeter of Central Park and the other two across Fifth Avenue. Replicas of BMT directional mosaics “QUEENS TRAINS” and “BROOKLYN TRAINS” are found on this side. The part time side at Central Park South, just by the Plaza Hotel, formerly had a booth (closed in 2003) and three street staircases as well. Each mezzanine has one stair to each platform. Mosaics “5”, “Fifth Ave,” and the directional signs on each platform, are fully preserved with new tiles encircling around them.

This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. MTA fixed the station's structure and overall appearance, replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting with 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In 2002, the station received a major overhaul. It received state-of-art repairs as well as an upgrade of the station for ADA compliance and restoration the original late 1910s tiling. MTA repaired the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, installed new tiling on the floors, upgraded the station's lights and the public address system, and installed ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

Artwork here was made in 1997 by Ann Schaumburger and is called "Urban Oasis." It uses glass mosaic murals to depict families of different types of animals.

Bus connections

*M1
*M2
*M3
*M4
*M5
*Q32

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?202:329|BMT Broadway Subway|5th Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ntrain.htm N Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/wtrain.htm W Train]