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50th Street Station · Opened 10/27/1904

50th Street is the first station along the West Side IRT constructed as part of Contract One, the first subway construction contract, which opened in 1904. This is a recently renovated local station with no mezzanine or crossover. Original tile plaques at this station were removed during remodeling but one of them has been preserved at the New York Transit Museum.


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Artwork: Alice: The Way Out, Liliana Porter (1994)


(image 70822) (188k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 8/4/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 890


(image 70823) (196k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 8/4/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 1055


(image 70824) (187k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 8/4/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 801


(image 53343) (179k, 788x1044)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roy Freeman
Date: 9/8/2006
Notes: Station entrance S.E. corner 50th & Broadway facing west.
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 1937


(image 53344) (189k, 788x1044)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roy Freeman
Date: 9/8/2006
Notes: Station entrance N.E. corner 50th & Broadway facing west.
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 1882


(image 53345) (231k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Roy Freeman
Date: 9/8/2006
Notes: Station entrance N.E. corner 50th & Broadway facing north/east.
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 2016


(image 33270) (37k, 404x329)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Kevin Wong
Date: 6/5/2003
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4212


(image 168) (151k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 6/18/2000
Notes: Faience plaque, Heins & LaFarge/Grueby Faience Company, 1904. Original design element, Contract 1 IRT. Now at Transit Museum.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 2362


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1998
Notes: Renovation tile tablet designed to mimic the original 1904 faience tablets.
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 2325


(image 166) (89k, 720x503)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1998
Notes: Faience plaque, Heins & LaFarge/Grueby Faience Company, 1904. Original design element, Contract 1 IRT.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 2401


(image 167) (96k, 743x497)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Date: 1998
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 3127


(image 7865) (79k, 1024x819)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: David Sagarin
Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record
Date: 8/1978
Notes: Faience plaque, Heins & LaFarge/Grueby Faience Company, 1904. Original design element, Contract 1 IRT.
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 3357


(image 7866) (101k, 1024x819)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: David Sagarin
Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record
Date: 8/1978
Notes: View along uptown platform showing original wall area and extension.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4129


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: David Sagarin
Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record
Date: 8/1978
Notes: Uptown control area with original ticket booth.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4101


(image 7868) (95k, 1024x821)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: David Sagarin
Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record
Date: 8/1978
Notes: Uptown platform and stairways. Note ornamental plaster ceiling and stairway arrangement.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 10588


(image 7869) (81k, 818x1024)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: David Sagarin
Collection of: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record
Date: 8/1978
Notes: View of former location of vault lights- now ventilation grates.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3989


(image 41840) (220k, 1044x698)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Collection of: David Pirmann
Date: 4/4/1964
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3423


(image 88066) (108k, 771x524)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Brian J. Cudahy
Date: 1954
Notes: Original kiosk on Contract One Interborough subway at Broadway and West 50th Street.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 972


(image 41794) (168k, 1044x714)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 50th Street
Photo by: Franklin B. Roberts
Collection of: Ed Davis, Sr.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 2133

 
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