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Overview

Opened: 10/27/1904

Express station with four tracks, two island platforms. This is a most peculiar station for a farsighted railroad like the IRT. It was totally inadequate from its opening day, yet it is the best preserved of the original IRT express stations. 72nd Street long suffered from narrow platforms and narrow stairways to the headhouse and fare control. To maximize the space in the headhouse, free crossover between uptown and downtown directions was artificially denied by the arrangement of the turnstiles and gates.

A renovation ending in 2002 provided a second headhouse on the north side of 72nd Street, additional stairways from the platforms, and a widened uptown platform at the north end. The widening required cutting into the sidewall of the tunnel and realigning the uptown local track. However, the platforms are still fairly narrow considering the passenger load at this station.

A 1950s plan considered converting 59th Street/Columbus Circle into an express station and 72nd Street into a local station (by walling off the platform along the express side). The express run would have then been from Times Square, to Columbus Circle, to 96th Street. While that might have alleviated some crowding at 72nd Street the vibrancy of the neighborhood around 72nd Street probably requires the express trains' stopping here.

Artwork

Verdi's Rigoletto, Robert Hickman (2005)

Photo Gallery

Image 577 (180k, 1024x680) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 2676 (138k, 1024x665) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 2836 (194k, 1024x664) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 2844 (183k, 1024x683) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 2860 (180k, 1024x686) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street
Image 3304 (191k, 1024x674) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 3326 (188k, 1024x672) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 3762 (191k, 1024x672) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street	Image 7873 (92k, 1024x819) Photo by: David Sagarin/Historic American Engineering Record Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Location: 72nd Street	Image 15710 (159k, 1024x665) Photo by: Joe Testagrose Location: 72nd Street
Image 32293 (139k, 720x461) Photo by: Peter Ehrlich Location: 72nd Street	Image 67385 (249k, 1044x788) Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar Location: 72nd Street	Image 98547 (170k, 1044x788) Photo by: David M. Location: 72nd Street	Image 116017 (224k, 788x1044) Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar Location: 72nd Street	Image 128015 (375k, 701x1044) Photo by: David Pirmann Location: 72nd Street

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