72nd Street station (IRT Second Avenue Line)

The 72nd Street station was a proposed station on the never-built IRT Second Avenue Line in New York City. The station was planned to be located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 72nd Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The Second Avenue Line project, intended to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line, was repeatedly proposed and delayed throughout the 20th century. While segments of the Second Avenue Subway have been constructed and opened in the 21st century, the 72nd Street station as originally conceived for the IRT Second Avenue Line was never built. Modern plans for the Second Avenue Subway extension do include a 72nd Street station, but it is part of the IND Second Avenue Line, not the IRT. The original plans for the IRT station remain significant as a historical footnote in the long history of New York City's subway development.