F Train 63rd St and Lexington Station

This has got to be one of the worst subway stations in Manhattan.
1. I’ve been using this station to commute since summer 2013 when it was already under construction** and it is STILL unfinished today, late April 2015. The platform can only fit 1 – 2 people in width with the outer person walking one foot on the thick yellow line. Isn’t this a safety violation?! And by renovation, they’re simply building a scaffold over the molding ugly parts and covering it up with new tiles. That’s just gross.
**12/​1/​2015 note– they are building first part of the 2^nd Ave subway line here and apparently construction work is either on/​off due to lack of funding**
2. The tracks are four (Brooklyn-​bound) or five (Queens-​bound) levels below ground. One flight of escalator is out of order 1 – 2 mornings a week during rush hour. The elevator is seriously outdated and will constantly re-​open the doors even after the buttons are pressed. When it does move, it trembles as it slowly goes up or down. It’s also small, dark, and smells like a homeless person’s bathroom.
3. To exit the platform, you have to walk to one end. The staircases in the middle only goes downstairs to the Queens-​bound platform (or upstairs to Brooklyn-​bound).
4. No cell or wifi service. No trash cans. No seats.
5. Very misleading to list transfers to the 4 5 6 N Q R trains when it’s not even at the same station. It’s a free metrocard transfer AFTER you get off the train, walk to the end of the platform, go up 4 – 5 levels to exit the station, and walk 4 blocks down Lexington Ave to the 59^th Street station. This is ridiculous and they make it sound convenient when it is NOT.

This is one of the stations I know like the back of my hand since it’s usually where I get on and off the F to get into Manhattan or return to Queens. It’s by far one of the worst mta stations I know. Perpetually under construction (with more than half of the station walled off), the platforms are barely wide enough for two people to walk side-​by-​side. You kind of have sidle past people to try to get to the end of the platform, which is why most people gather by the escalators (but that’s exactly the reason you’d want to move down the platform!). There are also a grand total of 4 escalators/​stairs you have to ascend/​descend to get in and out. Most of these are ridiculously long too, so if you’re going up, don’t even try to take the stairs. I speak from painful experience. It’s also, in general, a pretty run-​down station. Everything’s breaking (an escalator was walled off recently cause it died) and the station is pretty dirty/​old (more so than other mta stations). There another thing about the escalators that bothers me: they all go at weird speeds. Going from street-​level to the Queens-​bound platform: The first escalator is extremely, aggravatingly slow, the next two long ones are strange (they jitter a bit and the stairs move faster than the hand railing, though I don’t grasp the railings in any station anyways cause they’re always disgustingly filthy), and the final one is frightfully fast… like people who aren’t used to it have to stop for a full minute trying to figure out how to step onto the death-​trap of an escalator. This station really needs a make-​over and the construction people need to get their shit together. Almost two years of this mess is kind of unacceptable.

Seems half of it is under construction. And how many escalators do you need to get out of here? It seems the answer is 4. Why!!! Good thing I wasn’t in a hurry because if you were walking on all of them, you’d be getting a heck of a workout before you even got out of the station.

I’ve taken the F to this subway station for work since 2007; 1 of the 4 escalators one needs to ascend and descend to actually get to the train tracks is almost always broken or being repaired.
I cannot figure out why NYC subway stations are SO filthy– if I were Mayor, I’d arrange for sentences that require community service to focus on cleaning our subway stations.

Wow, this is one of the worst Train stations i’ve ever been to. There are 4 flight of escalators just to get out of the station and guess what? Escalators are constantly broken or under repaired. At times, I see people urinating on the drains and it’s just digusting. But it gets me to where I want to go, so I’m stuck with taking it everyday.
The reason that it’s not a 1 star is because F train is my most favored train in the MTA system, so hah! =)