Structure Elevated Next north 66th Street Borough Manhattan | Platforms 2 side platforms Opened 9 June 1879 Tracks 3 | |
Services IRT Ninth Avenue Line
IRT Sixth Avenue Line Closed June 11, 1940; 76 years ago (June 11, 1940) Next south 50th Street (Ninth Ave)
Eighth Avenue (Sixth Ave) Similar New York City Police Museum, Bryant Park, Marcus Garvey Park, William Tecumseh Sherman, Kappo Masa Restaurant | ||
59th Street was a station on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line. It had two levels. The lower level was built first and had two tracks and two side platforms that served local trains. The upper level was built as part of the Dual Contracts and had one track that served express trains. It closed on June 11, 1940. The next southbound stop was 50th Street for Ninth Avenue trains and Eighth Avenue for IRT Sixth Avenue Line trains. The next northbound stop was 66th Street.
On September 11, 1905, 12 people were killed and 42 injured in the Ninth Avenue derailment when a train that had just left the station was wrongly switched onto the curve at 53rd Street.
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59th Street (IRT Ninth Avenue Line) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA