The 58th Street Terminal or 58th 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 three tracks and two

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s. The center track was used for storage. The station was opened by the Gilbert Elevated Railway on June 5, 1878, and served as the northern terminus of the

trains until the line was acquired by the

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and built a connecting spur from 50th Street Station (the next southbound stop) along 53rd Street to the Ninth Avenue Elevated. It was replaced as the northernmost station on the line by the Eighth Avenue station in 1881, and closed on June 16, 1924. Though there are no longer any

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stations explicitly named 58th Street, the area is now served by the underground 57th Street subway station, one block to the south of the former 58th Street Terminal.

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IRT Sixth Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878 Railway stations closed in 1924 Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Defunct New York City Subway stations located aboveground 1924 disestablishments in New York (state) 1878 establishments in New York (state) {{Manhattan-railstation-stub