This underground station, opened on July 10, 1919, has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the Q train on weekends when it short turns at 57th Street – Seventh Avenue, the next station north.
There are four sets of platform-level fare controls, with no crossover or crossunder; each platform has a full-time booth at the north end (49th Street) and a part-time booth at the south end (47th Street). Only the northbound platform is ADA-accessible; an elevator was constructed in conjunction with a new office tower at the northeast corner of West 49th Street and Seventh Avenue. The elevator conceals an out-of-system underground passageway leading to Rockefeller Center and 47th–50th Streets station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line. Yellow tactile treads on both platforms' edges were installed in 2015.
Located at 1104 S. 49th Street, on the southwest corner with Chester Avenue, the station is a sheltered shed that sits on one platform; the other platform has a ramp to the Chester Avenue bridge. The station is handicapped-accessible.
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Right after graduating from high school, my father enlisted in the Army... I’m not sure that the inhabitants of Greenland were actually Eskimos, but I do know that they were as foreign to him as this street kid from 49th street was to them ... Teddy ... Lucy ... –.
As previously announced last September, the DOT aims to improve street safety and help streamline traffic in a city that gets 90% of its freight deliveries by truck ... LockerNYC at 49th Street in Sunnyside, QueensPhoto credit.
Right after graduating from high school, my father enlisted in the Army... I’m not sure that the inhabitants of Greenland were actually Eskimos, but I do know that they were as foreign to him as this street kid from 49th street was to them ... Teddy ... Lucy.
Tuesday attack on a 36-year-old cart operator at West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue, police said ... He then snatched $3,500 from the badly battered worker and bolted into the 50th Street subway station nearby, police said.
Crews broke ground last year at the intersection of Northwest 28th Street and Southwest 94th Avenue. Work is currently taking place near Northwest 49th Place and Northwest 89th Terrace and will continue up and down WestviewDrive and 86th Way ... ....
Tuesday at the corner of West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue when the menace approached him and bashed him in the face and body with “multiple objects,” including the pipe, according to cops and sources.
People are also reading… ... The making of a lawsuit. For much of the last year, Paul Feilmann and his big green yard sign calling for better living conditions at OHA were part of the scenery at the corner of UnderwoodAvenue and 49th Street ... .
At Rockefeller Center, the NYPD protects Christmas-tree visitors by deploying temporary gate-like barriers on 49th and 50th Streets — barriers that impede the pedestrian traffic they are supposed to protect.
... Kubany gave The Sunday Times an exclusive first look at the eight-year renovation of this 70,000 sq ft site, which occupies a full block between Park and LexingtonAvenues and 49th and 50th streets.
The 45-year-old hardhat was found on the ground around 9.40 a.m. outside the luxury hotel on Park Avenue near East 49th Street that has been under construction for years, according to cops and sources ... Corbis via Getty Images ... ....
at the corner of West 137th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, authorities said ... Two men were stabbed during a fight at West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue around 2 a.m., cops said ... at West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue, police said.
Tuesday, and spectators will only be permitted to enter from designated entries at 49th, 52nd and 56th Streets at Sixth and Eighth Avenues... We will begin standard street closures at four in the morning on Tuesday, then continue at 7 a.m.
The annual tradition, which sees the glittering ball descend 139 feet from 11.59 p.m ... All eyes on the ball ... 1.Photo by DylanChristie ... Checkpoints and entrances will be set up at 49th, 52nd, and 56th streets on Sixth and Eighth avenues ... to 12.15 a.m ... ....
Sharief Jackson was blasted twice in the chest shortly before 3 am inside his apartment on 49th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, according to the NYPD and residents ... This street used to be better,” ...
Sun Sentinel
10 Jan 2025
Sun Sentinel
10 Jan 2025