58th Street Terminal (IRT Sixth Avenue Line)

58th Street was a station on the demolished IRT Sixth Avenue Line. It had three tracks and two side platforms. The center track was used for storage. It was built in 1881 by the Gilbert Elevated Railway in June 1878, and served as the northern terminus of the IRT Sixth Avenue Line trains until the line was acquired by the Manhattan Railway Company and built a connecting spur from 50th Street Station (the next southbound stop) along 53rd Street to the Ninth Avenue Elevated. It was replaced as the northernmost station on the line by the Eighth Avenue station in 1881, and closed on June 16, 1924. Forty-four years later it would be replaced by the underground 57th Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) subway station one block to the south.