57th Street–Seventh Avenue (BMT Broadway Line) 57th Street–Seventh Avenue (BMT Broadway Line) 57th Street–Seventh Avenue is an express station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Midtown Manhattan at the intersection of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, it is served by the N and Q trains at all times, the R train at all times except late nights, and the W train on weekdays. On the subway map and on announcements, the station is called 57th Street–Seventh Avenue, but is also sometimes called Midtown–57th Street. It is directly adjacent to Carnegie Hall. When this station opened on July 10, 1919,
Seventh Avenue (Manhattan) connections between midtown Manhattan and the commercial district in what is now TriBeCa. It also permitted construction of the New York City Subway IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line which opened in 1918. Extension of the avenue was under consideration for several years, and was approved by the New York City Board of Estimate in September 1911, when the first $3 million appropriation was made for the initial planning of the work. The extension had been urged by civic groups to meet the commercial needs of Greenwich Village. A significant number of old buildings were marked for demolition in the