page_title: 14th Street–Union Square station
section_title: IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms
hierarchical_section_title: 14th Street–Union Square station / IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms
caption_attribution_description: 14th Street – Union Square (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
context_page_description: 14th Street–Union Square is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Broadway Line, the BMT Canarsie Line and the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. It is located at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 14th Street, underneath Union Square in Manhattan, and is served by the:
  4, 6, L, N, and Q trains at all times
  5 and R trains at all times except late nights
  W train on weekdays
  <6> train weekdays in the peak direction
  In 2016, over 34 million passengers entered this station, making it the fourth-busiest station in the system.
  The complex is located on the border of several neighborhoods with popular business, residential and nightlife destination spots, including the East Village to the southeast, Greenwich Village to the south and southwest, Chelsea to the northwest, and both the Flatiron District and Gramercy Park to the north and northeast.
  The station complex consists of three originally separate stations, which were combined on July 1, 1948. They now share a mezzanine, common entrance points, and unified signage. This complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
context_section_description: 14th Street–Union Square is an express station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line that has four tracks and two island platforms. It opened on October 27, 1904. The uptown and downtown platforms are offset from each other and slightly curved. Gap-filling movable platforms on the downtown side are automatically operated via proximity sensors when trains arrive. The station's mezzanines are located over the platforms.
  The station has two abandoned local side platforms; the northbound platform is visible through windows, bordered with wide, bright red frames, which is part of a larger, station-wide art installation entitled Framing Union Square, by Mary Miss. From the north end of the downtown platform's mezzanine, the adjacent side platform can be seen through a hole in the plywood. The abandoned platform edges are also visible from the current platforms.
caption: Downtown platform for the local services (left) and express services (right), showing the curvature of the station and the movable platforms
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