The Bleecker Street station was a station on the demolished
IRT Sixth Avenue Line
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 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 IRT Ninth Avenue Line, Ninth Avenue Elevated. ...
in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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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
IRT Sixth Avenue Line
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 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 IRT Ninth Avenue Line, Ninth Avenue Elevated. ...
and opened on June 5, 1878.
It closed on December 4, 1938.
See also
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Bleecker Street/Broadway–Lafayette Street (New York City Subway)
References
IRT Sixth Avenue Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878
Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan
1878 establishments in New York (state)
1938 disestablishments in New York (state)
Sixth Avenue
Railway stations in the United States closed in 1938
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