33rd Street

Architect: Christopher Grant LaFarge
Style: Beaux-Arts
City: Manhattan, NY

The 33rd Street station is a local stop on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, at Park Avenue and 33rd Street in Murray Hill. Built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company as part of the city's first subway line, it opened October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations.

the building

Tile and mosaic decoration. The station was built with tile and mosaic decorations that continue along its platform extensions, with two side platforms serving four tracks, the inner two used by express trains bypassing the stop.

the style

The station was designed in the Beaux-Arts idiom shared by the original IRT stations, relying on tile and mosaic ornament rather than an exterior facade.

the architect

Christopher Grant LaFarge designed the station as part of the original 1904 IRT subway line.

significance

The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a New York City Landmark. A 1920s proposal to convert it into an express station failed, and its platforms were lengthened in the late 1940s.

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