57th Street–Seventh Avenue (BMT Broadway Line)

57th Street–Seventh Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Downtown island platform
Station statistics
Address	West 57th Street & Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Midtown Manhattan
Coordinates	40°45′56″N 73°58′48″W / 40.765461°N 73.980088°W / 40.765461; -73.980088Coordinates: 40°45′56″N 73°58′48″W / 40.765461°N 73.980088°W / 40.765461; -73.980088
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N  (all times)       Q  (all times)       R  (all except late nights)       W  (weekdays only)
Transit connections	New York City Bus: M7, M20, M31, M57
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	July 10, 1919 (97 years ago) (1919-07-10)
Accessibility	Cross-platform wheelchair transfer available
Wireless service
Former/other names	Midtown–57th Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	9,512,090  2.1%
Rank	34 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Fifth Avenue–59th Street: N  R  W  Lexington Avenue–63rd Street (63rd): N  Q
Next south	49th Street (local): N  Q  R  W  Times Square–42nd Street (express): Q
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops weekdays only Stops weekends only
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57th Street–Seventh Avenue is an express 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 served by the N and Q trains at all times, the R train at all times except late nights, and the W train on weekdays.

On the subway map and on announcements, the station is called 57th Street–Seventh Avenue, but is also sometimes called Midtown–57th Street. It is directly adjacent to Carnegie Hall.

When this station opened on July 10, 1919, the BMT Broadway Line had ended north of this station as six trackways, of which only two tracks (local tracks) continued to the 60th Street Tunnel to Queens. The other four trackways, both the express tracks and the outermost trackways (both of the outermost trackways are ramps which have never been used) curve slightly west before ending, which were a provision for the line to run to Upper Manhattan via Central Park West.

With four tracks and two island platforms, this station is the northernmost express station on the BMT Broadway Line. Much of the BMT system is chained from the zero point here. The N, R, and W trains use the local tracks, which continue north under 59th and 60th Streets to Queens, while Q trains and selected rush-hour N trains use the center express tracks to continue north along the BMT 63rd Street Line to Lexington Avenue–63rd Street and the Second Avenue Subway. Before the BMT 63rd Street Line was built in 1989, the express tracks continued as layup spurs north of the station (although construction of the 63rd Street line from 1971 to 1978 continued the section between this station and Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station). The express tracks ran for about 400 feet.