Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

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Lexington Avenue–53rd Street Image:NYCS-bull-trans-E.svg Image:NYCS-bull-trans-V.svg
New York City Subway station
Image:Lex-53rd Street Station by David Shankbone.jpg
Station information
Line	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services	E ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg} (all times) V ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-weekdaysonly.svg} (weekdays until midnight)
Transfer	4 ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-nightsonly.svg} 6 ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg} <6>^{Image:NYCS-SSI-rushpeak.svg} at 51st Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other
Opened	August 19, 1933
Accessible	Image:Wheelchair symbol.svg
Next north	23rd Street–Ely Avenue: E ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg} V ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-weekdaysonly.svg}
Next south	Fifth Avenue–53rd Street: E ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg} V ^{Image:NYCS-SSI-weekdaysonly.svg}

Lexington Avenue–53rd Street is a rapid transit station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It has two tracks and one island platform. It is eighty feet below the street, as the line had to pass beneath all of the north–south subway lines that were built before it. Elevators were last renovated in 2005. The pair of escalators at the west end of the station were once recorded to be the longest in the world.^[1]A passageway connecting to 51st Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was added in 1989. As a result, this station has become the sixth busiest in the system, even though it is a local station on the Lexington Avenue line.^[2]