79th Street

The 79th Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 79th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side of , it is served by the 1 train at all times and the 2 train during late nights.
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: New York City IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line subway station
  • Also known as: “79 St” and “79th Street station”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Central Park and American Museum of Natural History.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum on the of in . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from , the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. is situated 1,900 feet southeast of 79th Street.

Church
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The is a Baptist church on the of , . Its current structure was built in 1890–93 at the intersection of Broadway and West 79th Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Upper West Side and Lincoln Square.

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The covers a large area in upper bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and and Morningside Park on the east.

Neighborhood
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is the name of both a and the surrounding neighborhood on the of in . is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, between West 65th and 66th streets.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in the northern part of the of in . It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.

79th Street

Latitude
40.78386° or 40° 47′ 2″ north
Longitude
-73.97999° or 73° 58′ 48″ west
Inception
October 27th, 1904
Operator
New York City Transit Authority
Network
NYC Subway
Open location code
87G8Q2MC+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1793478711
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q2524318
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“79th Street” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “79街車站”
  • Dutch: “79th Street”
  • Esperanto: “Stacio 79-a Strato”
  • French: “79ème Rue”
  • French: “79th Street”
  • Italian: “79th Street”
  • Japanese: “79丁目駅”
  • Korean: “79번가”
  • Korean: “79번가역”
  • Polish: “79th Street”
  • Russian: “79-я стрит”
  • Russian: “79-я улица”
  • Spanish: “Calle 79”
  • Ukrainian: “79-та вулиця”

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