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59th Street/Columbus Circle (IRT West Side Line)

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59th Street/Columbus Circle Station · Opened 10/27/1904

Local station with four tracks and two side platforms. The side walls of the station feature large name tablet mosaics and both mosaic and faience plaques of Christopher Columbus's three ships. A mezzanine underneath provides access to the IND station at Columbus Circle.

The downtown platform areas are much larger than necessary for the interchange with the IND. They are deliberately ample to allow for an expansion of this station into a new express stop. The downtown local and express tracks would, under an early 1950s NYCTA plan, weave out to accommodate a new center express platform. The new downtown local platform would be in the bays. Thus this station would have resembled Pennsylvania Station with three platforms. To ensure the bays remained available, the NY Coliseum was set back from the street. As part of this plan the 72nd Street station would become a local stop by walling off the express tracks. The express run would be from Times Square, then Columbus Circle, then 96th Street.

Artwork: Hello Columbus, NYC Artists & Public School Students (1992)

Artwork: Whirls and Twirls, Sol Lewitt (2007)


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 10/22/2009
Notes: Station renovations.
Viewed (this week/total): 32 / 253


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 10/22/2009
Notes: Note wrong "destination" for the #1-- it terminates at 242nd.
Viewed (this week/total): 29 / 254


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 10/21/2009
Notes: Station renovations.
Viewed (this week/total): 26 / 226


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 10/13/2009
Notes: Station renovations.
Viewed (this week/total): 18 / 182


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 10/13/2009
Notes: Station renovations.
Viewed (this week/total): 25 / 227


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 7/1/2009
Notes: New number plaques at 59th St.
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 419


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David M.
Date: 2/13/2009
Notes: IRT downtown platform; new brick covering 1960's tile.
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 288


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David M.
Date: 2/13/2009
Notes: IRT downtown platform; new brick covering 1960's tile.
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 273


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David M.
Date: 2/13/2009
Notes: IRT downtown platform. New tile and brick.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 357


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 1/19/2009
Notes: New tile/station rehab.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 674


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 1/19/2009
Notes: New tile/station rehab.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 459


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 5/24/2008
Notes: New entrance at Columbus Circle IRT
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1101


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 5/24/2008
Notes: New entrance at Columbus Circle IRT
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 795


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 5/24/2008
Notes: New entrance at Columbus Circle IRT
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 652


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 5/24/2008
Notes: New entrance at Columbus Circle IRT
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1175


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 1/19/2008
Notes: Platform view during renovation.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1952


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987)
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 1/19/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 1311


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Danny Molina
Date: 12/22/2007
Notes: Station reconstruction.
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1196


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Photo by: Danny Molina
Date: 12/22/2007
Notes: Station reconstruction.
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1382


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 59th Street/Columbus Circle
Route: 1
Car: R62 (Kawasaki, 1983-1985) 1411
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 1/20/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 2251


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