Lexington Av/53 St — Local services in New York

The Lexington Avenue/51st Street station is a New York City Subway station complex on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line. The station is located on Lexington Avenue and stretches from 51st Street to 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. It is served by the 6 and E trains at all times; the M train on weekdays during the day; the train during weekdays in the peak direction; and the 4 train during late nights.

The complex comprises two stations: 51st Street on the Lexington Avenue Line and Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (originally Lexington–Third Avenues) on the Queens Boulevard Line. Originally two separate stations, these were connected in 1988 via a transfer passage, which was opened with the construction of 599 Lexington Avenue. Approximately 50,000 riders transfer between the Lexington Avenue and Queens Boulevard Lines each weekday. In 2019, the station complex had an annual ridership of 18,957,465, making it the tenth-busiest...

This is one of the deepest stations in the city and one of the most dangerous. The escalators at the eastern end of the station is where the problems lie. The escalators bring you down to the platform to traverse a narrow pathway to the rest of the station. It creates a dangerous bottle neck at one end of station. During morning rush hour the escalators only run up so if you have heavy bags or have problems with you legs you have no choice but to walk down the 2-3 stories of steps to the platform.

The escalator to ground level is positioned incorrectly as well. It runs up from the station entrance on the left. Which puts you on the street at a blind corner where you're fighting pedestrians walking up the block trying to pass or go down the stairs to the station. The position of the escalator would make sense if it went down but I've never seen it go down.

No consideration was made to the flow of people moving...

The 53rd st 3rd ave train station is a confusing experience for people that don’t use that station often. If you want to take the 6 train and take the stairs from 53rd st 3av, the first thing you see is the metro card entrance to go down electrical stair to another train platform. While you by mistake going down the stair, there is a sign saying: 6 train is “ at the other end“ Which other end ? You take 100 feet stair down thinking it another end to take the 6 train !

Please put a sign at 53rd 3rd av : 6 train it’s only available at 51st street and Lexington ave and put the sign how to go to Lexington ave in the...