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50th Street Station · Opened 9/10/1932

Two levels, with two side platforms on each level. The trains to/from the Central Park West stop on the upper level, Queens Boulevard/53rd Street trains on the lower level.

The two levels seem like typical IND overbuilding. The Queens trains could have easily run through the station without stopping to speed up the journey from Queens. But the station was built when Madison Square Garden stood upstairs, where Worldwide Plaza is now. It is plausible that the extra platforms were needed for the Garden crowds.

The two platforms on each side are out of phase: the upper level runs from 50th to 52nd, the lower from 49th to 51st. On the southbound side, the fare control is at the upper platform level, and there is elevator access to both platforms and street level. The northbound side has fare control three steps up from the upper platform.

There is a closed exit at 52nd Street; closed stairways connecting the uptown platforms at 51st Street; an exit at 51st Street from the uptown platform but not from the downtown platform; a former entrance to the lower level platforms at 49th Street, which has been completely removed on the uptown side, with access from the street to the mezzanine on the soutbound side (the stairs to the platform have been closed, apparently as a crime prevention measure); no crossovers between direction provided at any entrance. During the construction of the Worldwide Plaza complex in the 1980s, a closed fare control area was opened up and an original wooden token booth found inside. This was fixed up and is now in service on the downtown lower level platform.

There might have also been a passageway, just north of the uptown token booth, that linked this station to the 50th Street/Broadway station. No free transfer was ever provided.

The name tablet is dark purple with black border and there is no color tile band.

Artwork: Untitled, Matt Mullican (1989)


(image 106543) (248k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 9/4/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 8 / 347


(image 97377) (135k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Route: E
Car: R160A (Option 1) (Alstom, 2008-2009, 5 car sets) 9297
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 3/13/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 665


(image 98348) (137k, 800x600)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 3/7/2009
Notes: Platform view.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 480


(image 95888) (249k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Route: E
Car: R160A (Option 1) (Alstom, 2008-2009, 5 car sets) 9257
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 1/30/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 761


(image 95889) (202k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 1/30/2009
Notes: Station view.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 510


(image 95887) (203k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Route: E
Car: R160A (Option 1) (Alstom, 2008-2009, 5 car sets) 9255
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 1/30/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 972


(image 87964) (198k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 7/11/2008
Notes: 52nd St directional sign at 50th St.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 494


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Route: E
Car: R29 3675
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 3/2/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 1546


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Michael Romero
Date: 1/5/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 1343


(image 79615) (236k, 1024x768)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Michael Romero
Date: 1/5/2008
Notes: Name tablet mosaic.
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 968


(image 66558) (132k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Frank LeViness
Date: 3/30/2007
Notes: Former entrance/exit.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 1336


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Bill E.
Date: 1/20/2007
Notes: Railfan window view entering 50th St.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 2093


(image 38386) (185k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Richard Panse
Date: 3/22/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3142


(image 38387) (156k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Richard Panse
Date: 3/22/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 4146


(image 38388) (193k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Richard Panse
Date: 3/22/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 3348


(image 38389) (182k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Route: E
Car: R32 (Budd, 1964) 3512
Photo by: Richard Panse
Date: 3/22/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3787


(image 31343) (77k, 682x909)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Brian Weinberg
Date: 5/30/2004
Notes: Downtown entrance
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 4039


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Brian Weinberg
Date: 5/30/2004
Notes: Downtown entrance
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3340


(image 31345) (99k, 909x682)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Brian Weinberg
Date: 5/30/2004
Notes: Lower level
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 3727


(image 31339) (57k, 682x511)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Brian Weinberg
Date: 5/30/2004
Notes: Lower level
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3490


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