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71st-Continental Aves.-Forest Hills · 67th Avenue · 63rd Drive-Rego Park · Woodhaven Boulevard-Queens Mall · Grand Avenue-Newtown · Elmhurst Avenue · Roosevelt Avenue · 65th Street · Northern Boulevard · 46th Street · Steinway Street · 36th Street · Queens Plaza · Court Square · Lexington Avenue-53rd Street · 5th Avenue-53rd Street · 47-50th Street-Rockefeller Center · 42nd Street · 34th Street-Herald Square · 23rd Street · 14th Street · West 4th Street-Washington Square · Broadway-Lafayette · Essex Street · Marcy Avenue · Hewes Street · Lorimer Street · Flushing Avenue · Myrtle Avenue · Central Avenue · Knickerbocker Avenue · Wyckoff Avenue · Seneca Avenue · Forest Avenue · Fresh Pond Road · Metropolitan Avenue

Overview

Opened: 12/15/1940

Four tracks, two island platforms. The track and platform arrangement here is slightly unusual. The north end of the downtown platform ramps up, and is at a higher elevation than the uptown platform. The tracks north of the station run on three levels to form the flying junction at 53rd Street connecting the IND Queens Boulevard line into the 6th and 8th Avenue trunks. To accommodate the track arrangement in the junction, the southbound platform has the positions of the "express" and "local" tracks reversed. Trains entering 47th/50th Street station from the west (from Central Park West) enter the station on the westernmost of the downtown tracks; trains entering from the east (from Queens Boulevard) use the eastern downtown track. Between 47/50th Streets and 42nd Street the southbound tracks cross over each other (not at grade). Thus it can be said that the southbound side of the station has the traditional placement of local and express tracks reversed.

The station has a massive mezzanine which connects to many Rockefeller Center buildings outside the fare control. There are four sets of exit stairs from the two island platforms. The south two connect to 47th and 48th Sts., the northern pair to 49th and 50th. The tile is white with an orange tile band with black border and there is no name tablet.

Photo Gallery

Image 58288 (111k, 1037x778) Photo by: Michael Hodurski Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 90346 (220k, 1044x701) Photo by: David Pirmann Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 90347 (256k, 1044x701) Photo by: David Pirmann Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 90348 (223k, 1044x701) Photo by: David Pirmann Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 90349 (227k, 1044x701) Photo by: David Pirmann Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center
Image 97021 (149k, 768x1024) Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 97051 (227k, 1044x788) Photo by: John Barnes Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 98514 (236k, 1044x788) Photo by: John Barnes Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 98606 (225k, 1044x788) Photo by: John Barnes Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 101584 (196k, 1044x788) Photo by: John Barnes Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center
Image 109161 (250k, 1044x707) Photo by: Richard Chase Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 131357 (314k, 1024x687) Photo by: Wilfredo Castillo Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 131633 (294k, 1024x687) Photo by: Wilfredo Castillo Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 133210 (292k, 1024x687) Photo by: Wilfredo Castillo Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center	Image 133219 (280k, 1024x687) Photo by: Wilfredo Castillo Location: 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center

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