page_title: 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station
section_title: IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms
hierarchical_section_title: 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station / IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms
caption_attribution_description: English: Uptown B/D/F/M platform at 42nd Street - Bryant Pk.
context_page_description: 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue is an underground New York City Subway station complex, consisting of stations on the IRT Flushing Line and IND Sixth Avenue Line, formerly without direct connection, now connected by a pedestrian tunnel. Located at 42nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the:
  7, D, and F trains at all times
  B and M trains on weekdays
  <7> train on weekdays in the peak direction
  <F> train during rush hours in the peak direction
context_section_description: 42nd Street–Bryant Park, opened on December 15, 1940 as part of the opening of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center to West Fourth Street. It is an express station, with four tracks and two island platforms. B and D trains stop at the inner express tracks while F and M trains stop at the outer local tracks.
  Both outer track walls have a scarlet red trim line with a chocolate brown border and small white "42" signs on a black background below them at regular intervals. Red I-beam columns run along both sides of both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering. Some of the columns between the express tracks have black "42" signs on a white background.
  This station has a full length mezzanine above the platforms and tracks. It originally extended south from 42nd Street to the 34th Street–Herald Square station, with additional entrances at 38th Street. The passageway was long, dim, and lightly traveled, and it was finally closed in 1991 after a series of rapes took place there. It is now used for storage. The mezzanine has a florist, orange I-beam columns, lit-up ads, and space rentals along the walls.
  South of this station, there are three sets of crossovers, allowing trains to switch between all four tracks. Those switches are not currently used in revenue service. The crossovers were reconfigured to reduce the duplication of track switches of the downtown and uptown tracks, most notably, the switch from the express to local tracks.
caption: Uptown and Queens platform with stairway to transfer.
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