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Overview

Opened: 10/27/1904

Four tracks and two side platforms. If you were riding a train northward from 42nd Street, this is the first station you would arrive at along the West Side IRT that was constructed as part of Contract One, the first subway construction contract, which opened in 1904.

This station was renovated in the 1980s or 1990s and most of the original tile work was removed. One of the original faience plaques has been preserved at the New York Transit Museum.

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Artwork

Alice: The Way Out, Liliana Porter (1994)

Photo Gallery

Image 167 (96k, 743x497) Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne Location: 50th Street	Image 168 (151k, 1044x788) Photo by: David Pirmann Location: 50th Street	Image 7865 (79k, 1024x819) Photo by: David Sagarin/Historic American Engineering Record Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Location: 50th Street	Image 7866 (101k, 1024x819) Photo by: David Sagarin/Historic American Engineering Record Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Location: 50th Street	Image 7867 (88k, 1024x820) Photo by: David Sagarin/Historic American Engineering Record Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Location: 50th Street
Image 7869 (81k, 818x1024) Photo by: David Sagarin/Historic American Engineering Record Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Location: 50th Street	Image 22159 (42k, 750x487) Photo by: David of Broadway Location: 50th Street	Image 33270 (37k, 404x329) Photo by: Kevin Wong Location: 50th Street	Image 41840 (427k, 1044x712) Collection of: David Pirmann Location: 50th Street	Image 53343 (179k, 788x1044) Photo by: Roy Freeman Location: 50th Street
Image 53345 (231k, 1044x788) Photo by: Roy Freeman Location: 50th Street	Image 70822 (188k, 1044x788) Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar Location: 50th Street	Image 70823 (196k, 1044x788) Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar Location: 50th Street	Image 88066 (108k, 771x524) Photo by: Brian J. Cudahy Location: 50th Street	Image 131112 (272k, 1024x687) Photo by: Wilfredo Castillo Location: 50th Street

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