59th Street station (New York Central Railroad)

59th Street
The unused 59th Street station, 2021
General information
LocationPark Avenue and 59th Street
Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York
Coordinates40°45′47″N 73°58′11″W / 40.762941°N 73.969752°W / 40.762941; -73.969752
Line(s)Park Avenue Tunnel (Hudson Line)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4

The 59th Street station is a never-opened station in the Park Avenue Tunnel used by the Metro-North Railroad. The station was built by the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad as part of an agreement with the government of New York City during the late 1870s, although trains never stopped here.[1] The station is used as an emergency exit for the Metro-North Railroad.[2]

  1. ^ Scientific American (1875). "THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY, NEW YORK CITY". www.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on May 4, 2009. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Hudson, Edward (February 23, 1984). "FIRE POSTSCRIPT: 2,000 STUCK IN TUNNEL". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2018.