58th Street Terminal

58th St.
Former Manhattan Railway elevated station
General information
LocationWest 58th Street and 6th Avenue
New York, NY
Upper Manhattan, Manhattan
Coordinates40°45′54″N 73°58′36″W / 40.76500°N 73.97667°W / 40.76500; -73.97667
Operated byInterborough Rapid Transit Company
Line(s)Sixth Avenue Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks3
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
OpenedJune 5, 1878; 146 years ago (June 5, 1878)
ClosedJune 16, 1924; 100 years ago (June 16, 1924)
Former services
Preceding station Interborough Rapid Transit Following station
Terminus Sixth Avenue
Shuttle
50th Street
Terminus

The 58th Street Terminal or 58th Street station was a station on the demolished IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had three tracks and two side platforms. The center track was used for storage. The station was opened by the Gilbert Elevated Railway on June 5, 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.

Though there are no longer any New York City Subway stations explicitly named 58th Street, the area is now served by the underground 57th Street subway station, one block to the south of the former 58th Street Terminal.[1]

  1. ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.