The 50th Street station was a station on the demolished

IRT Sixth Avenue Line The IRT Sixth Avenue Line, often called the Sixth Avenue Elevated or Sixth Avenue El, was the second elevated railway in Manhattan in New York City, following the Ninth Avenue Elevated. The line ran south of Central Park, mainly along Sixth A ...

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. It had two tracks and two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s. It was served by trains from the

and opened on June 5, 1878. It closed on December 4, 1938. The next southbound stop was 42nd Street. For some trains, the next northbound stop was

58th Street Terminal The 58th Street Terminal or 58th Street station was a station on the demolished IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had three tracks and two side platforms. The center track was used for storage. The station was opened by the G ...

until 1924, while for other trains, the next northbound stop was Eighth Avenue. For express trains, the next northbound stop was

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on Ninth Avenue. Two years later after the station closed, it was replaced by the nearby underground 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center (IND Sixth Avenue Line) subway station.

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IRT Sixth Avenue Line stations Railway stations closed in 1938 Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Defunct New York City Subway stations located aboveground 1938 disestablishments in New York (state) {{Manhattan-railstation-stub Sixth Avenue 1878 establishments in New York (state) Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878