IRT Flushing Line Platform
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Entrance to the IRT section of the complex |
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| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IRT Flushing Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | 7 (all times) <7> (rush hours until 10:00 p.m., peak direction) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | March 22, 1926; 86 years ago (March 22, 1926) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | Fifth Avenue – Bryant Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Grand Central: 7 <7> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | Times Square: 7 <7> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fifth Avenue (formerly Fifth Avenue – Bryant Park) on the IRT Flushing Line, opened on March 22, 1926, has two tracks and one island platform. The platform walls have a mosaic golden trimline with "5" tablets at regular intervals along it.
The station has a full length mezzanine directly above the platform and tracks. The full-time fare control is at the east end. A single stair on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in front of the New York Public Library goes down to an area that has a full-time token booth and turnstile bank that leads to several staircases down to the platform. Towards the west end, the mezzanine splits in two with one portion becoming a down hill ramp where there is another staircases up from the platform before leading to the passageway to the IND Sixth Avenue Line. The portion of the mezzanine that curves up leads to some HEET turnstiles and a small fare control area. The two adjacent street stairs here have elaborate ironwork and go up to the south side 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue on the northern edge of Bryant Park.
The 2002 artwork here is called Under Byrant Park by Samm Kuce. It is located in the transfer passageway and consists of glass mosiac and etched granite depicting roots of trees with various literacy quotes.
Read more about this topic: 42nd Street-Bryant Park (IND Sixth Avenue Line)
Famous quotes containing the words line and/or platform:
“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)