Lexington Avenue/59th Street station

Lexington Avenue/59 Street  ​​​​​
New York City Subway station complex
Street stair by southeast corner of 59th Street and Lexington Avenue (the Q train served this station between 2010 and 2016, when the W did not run)
Station statistics
Address	East 59th Street & Lexington Avenue New York, New York
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Midtown Manhattan, Upper East Side
Coordinates	40°45′45″N 73°58′04″W / 40.762471°N 73.9679°W / 40.762471; -73.9679
Division	A (IRT), B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Broadway Line    IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services	4  (all times) ​   5  (all times except late nights) ​   6  (all times) <6>  (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)​    N  (all times) ​   R  (all times except late nights) ​   W  (weekdays only)
System transfers	With MetroCard or OMNY only:    F  (all times) <F>  (two rush hour trains, peak direction)​    N  (limited weekday rush hour service only) ​   Q  (all times) ​   R  (one a.m. rush hour trip in the northbound direction only) at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street
Transit	NYCT Bus: M101, M102, M103, Q32 MTA Bus: QM2, QM3, QM20[2]
Structure	Underground
Levels	3
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1948; 76 years ago (1948-07-01)[3]
Accessible	not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Traffic
2023	11,691,818[4]  18.2%
Rank	12 out of 423[4]
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops weekdays during the day

The Lexington Avenue/59th Street station (signed as 59th Street–Lexington Avenue) is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the BMT Broadway Line. It is located at Lexington Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets, on the border of Midtown and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The station complex is the fourteenth-busiest in the system, with over 21 million passengers in 2016.^[5]

It is served by the 4, 6, and N trains at all times, the W train on weekdays during the day, and the 5 and R trains at all times except late nights. In addition, the <6> express train stops here during weekdays in peak direction.

A free out-of-system MetroCard/OMNY transfer is available to the 63rd Street Lines (F and Q trains, as well as rush-hour N and R trains) by exiting the station and walking to the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station.