Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street

The Lexington Avenue/51st Street station is a New York City Subway station complex on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line. The station is located on Lexington Avenue and stretches from 51st Street to 53rd Street in .
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: New York City subway station
  • Also known as: “Lexington Av–53 St”, “Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)”, “Lexington Avenue–53rd Street”, and “Lexington Avenue/53rd Street”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of Modern Art and Empire State Building.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in , New York City, on 53rd Street between and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. is situated 2,300 feet northwest of Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street.

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The is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of , New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed between 1930 and 1931. is situated 1 mile southwest of Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street.

Office building
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The is an office skyscraper in the neighborhood of , New York, U.S. Built in 1977 for Citibank, it is 915 feet tall and has 1.3 million square feet of office space across 59 floors.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Diamond District and Tudor City.

Neighborhood
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A is an area where the cutting, polishing, and trade of diamonds and other gems takes place. There are a number of these districts around the world, including: It may also refer to , an American hip-hop group formed by Oddisee, Uptown XO & Yu.

Neighborhood
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is an apartment complex on the East Side of in , bordering the Turtle Bay and neighborhoods. It lies on a low cliff east of Second Avenue, between 40th and 43rd Streets, and overlooks First Avenue to the east.

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is the core retail and commercial neighborhood of , containing the highest concentration of business and money this side of, well, the planet.

Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street

Latitude
40.75822° or 40° 45′ 30″ north
Longitude
-73.9706° or 73° 58′ 14″ west
Operator
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Network
New York City Subway
Open location code
87G8Q25H+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5407857500
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q11680081
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