Lexington Avenue-53 Street

Lexington Avenue-53 Street is a local subway station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line. This is the only original IND station that doesn't have any wall tiles on the platform. This station is served by the E and M trains.

This station opened on August 19, 1933. There are two tracks and one island platform. There is no original IND tiling or mosaics present at this station so there the MTA placed black signs with the station name on the red I-beams on the platform. There was a full renovation in 2004.

MTA Arts For Transit
 * Passing Through, glass mosaic by Al Held, 2004