59th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)
59th St. | |||||||||||||||
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| Former Manhattan Railway elevated station | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | West 59th Street and 9th Avenue, New York, NY Upper Manhattan, Manhattan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°46′9.15″N 73°59′5.16″W / 40.7692083°N 73.9847667°W | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Interborough Rapid Transit Company | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Ninth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | June 9, 1879 | ||||||||||||||
| Closed | June 11, 1940[1] | ||||||||||||||
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The 59th Street station was a local station on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two levels. The lower level was built first and had two tracks and two side platforms that served local trains. The upper level was built as part of the Dual Contracts and had one track that served express trains. It closed on June 11, 1940. The next southbound stop was 50th Street for Ninth Avenue trains and Eighth Avenue for IRT Sixth Avenue Line trains. The next northbound stop was 66th Street.
On September 11, 1905, 12 people were killed and 42 injured in the Ninth Avenue derailment when a train that had just left the station was wrongly switched onto the curve at 53rd Street.
References
- ^ "Tonight to See City Pass Goal of Unification". New York Daily News. June 10, 1940. p. 37. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
