47th-50th Streets (IND Sixth Avenue Line)
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47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center
   
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
Uptown and Queens platform
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| Address | Sixth Avenue between West 47th Street & West 50th Street New York, NY 10020 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||
| Locale | Midtown Manhattan | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′31″N 73°58′53″W / 40.758603°N 73.981376°WCoordinates: 40°45′31″N 73°58′53″W / 40.758603°N 73.981376°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||
| Line | IND Sixth Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services |
B  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)D  (all times)F (all times)M (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: M5, M7, M50
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms cross-platform interchange |
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| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||
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| Opened | December 15, 1940 | ||||||||
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| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) | 18,469,446  1.3% |
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| Rank | 13 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
Seventh Avenue (Eighth Avenue): B D 57th Street (63rd Street): F Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street (Queens Boulevard): M
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| Next south |
42nd Street–Bryant Park: B D F M
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| Next north |
59th Street–Columbus Circle (Eighth Avenue): B D Lexington Avenue–63rd Street (63rd Street): F Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (Queens Boulevard): M
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| Next south |
34th Street–Herald Square: B D F M
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47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center is an express station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the D and F trains at all times, and the B and M trains on weekdays.
47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center opened as part of the mainline portion of the IND Sixth Avenue Line to West Fourth Street–Washington Square, with connections to the IND Queens Boulevard Line to the north. Express service began in 1967 with the completion of express tracks between West Fourth and 34th Streets and the opening of the Chrystie Street Connection.
The station has two island platforms and four tracks, like most express stations, but has an unusual track arrangement. The uptown side has the traditional arrangement of local service on the outside track and express service on the inside track, but the downtown side reverses this (local on the inside, express on the outside). This is to avoid level junctions with the IND Queens Boulevard Line, which is perpendicular with the IND Sixth Avenue Line north of this station. Express trains come from the Bronx via a connection from the IND Eighth Avenue Line while local trains come from Queens via either the IND 63rd Street Line or the 53rd Street Tunnels. South of this station, the downtown local track crosses under the express track and the line returns to the traditional arrangement in both directions at 42nd Street–Bryant Park.
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