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
Gilbert Elevated Railway Gilbert may refer to:
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*Gilbert (surname), including a list of people
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* Gilbert River (Queensland)
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on June 5, 1878, and served as the northern terminus of the
IRT Sixth Avenue Line trains until the line was acquired by the
Manhattan Railway Company and built a connecting spur from
50th Street Station (the next southbound stop) along 53rd Street to the
Ninth Avenue Elevated
The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened on July 3, 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable ...
. It was replaced as the northernmost station on the line by the
Eighth Avenue station Eighth Avenue or Eighth Avenue station may refer to:
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*Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
*Eighth Avenue (Brooklyn)
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*Eighth Avenue station (BMT Canarsie Li ...
in 1881, and closed on June 16, 1924.
Though there are no longer any
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October 2 ...
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.
References
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)
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