Everything about 57th Street Bmt Broadway Line totally explained
57th Street is a
station on the
BMT Broadway Line of the
New York City Subway, located in
Midtown Manhattan at the intersection of
57th Street and
Seventh Avenue. It is often referred to as
57th Street–Seventh Avenue to distinguish it from
57th Street on the
IND Sixth Avenue Line, which runs underneath
Sixth Avenue, and is also sometimes called
Midtown–57th Street.
With four tracks and two
island platforms, this station is the northernmost express station on the BMT Broadway Line. The,, and trains run on the local tracks, which continue north under 59th and 60th Streets to
Queens. The express tracks are used for turning by trains, which use this station as their northern terminal. These express tracks actually continue northwards as the
BMT 63rd Street Line to
Lexington Avenue–63rd Street; they're sometimes used by trains when construction necessitates bypassing the
60th Street Tunnel. Future plans provide for service to continue past 57th Street under 63rd Street to the
Second Avenue Subway, which is currently being built.
This station underwent an overhaul in the late 1970s. MTA did fix the station's structure and the overhaul appearance. It replaces the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also fixed staircases and platform edges. In early 1990s, the station was receiving a major overhaul. It was received state of repairs as well as upgrading the station for
ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling. MTA did repair the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing
ADA safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.
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