Planned Service
MTA plans to extend the Q service under Central Park and eastward to the stop at Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street before turning north at Second Avenue to merge with the under construction Second Avenue Subway. This will create direct service between the Upper East Side and the existing BMT Broadway Line.
The double-decked Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street station will allow cross-platform interchange between the two 63rd Street lines. It is being renovated to remove the walls on the platforms and open a new entrance on the Third Avenue side of the station. East-bound trains to Queens (and later Upper Manhattan) use the lower level; south-bound trains to Midtown and Lower Manhattan use the upper level.
The tunnel boring machine being used to create the Second Avenue Line, broke through the wall into the lower level of the BMT 63rd Street Line on September 22, 2011.
Read more about this topic: BMT 63rd Street Line
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