63rd Drive–Rego Park station
63 Drive–Rego Park QM40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | December 31, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former/other names | 63rd Drive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traffic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | 3,033,839[2] 8.4% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 101 out of 423[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 63rd Drive–Rego Park station is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, consisting of four tracks. Located at 63rd Drive and Queens Boulevard in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, it is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E and F trains at night.
History
The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned
On December 31, 1936, the IND Queens Boulevard Line was extended by eight stops, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km), from its previous terminus at
Station layout
Ground | Street level | Exit/entrance |
Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines | |
Platform level | Side platform | |
Southbound local | ← toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue weekdays (Woodhaven Boulevard) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Woodhaven Boulevard) ← toward World Trade Center late nights (Woodhaven Boulevard) ← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue late nights (Woodhaven Boulevard) | |
Southbound express | ← do not stop here | |
Northbound express | do not stop here → | |
Northbound local | toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays (67th Avenue) → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (67th Avenue) → toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer late nights (67th Avenue) → toward Jamaica–179th Street late nights (67th Avenue) → | |
Side platform |
There are four tracks and two
Both platforms have a blue tile band with a black border and mosaic name tablets reading "63RD DRIVE" in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and matching blue border. A few of these tablets have modern metal signs above them reading "Rego Park". Small tile captions reading "63RD DRIVE" in white lettering on black run below the tile band, and directional signs in the same style are present below some of the name tablets.[citation needed] The tile band was part of a color-coded
Dark slate blue I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.[
The tunnel is covered by a U-shaped trough that contains utility pipes and wires. The outer walls of this trough are composed of columns, spaced approximately every 5 feet (1.5 m) with concrete infill between them. There is a 1-inch (25 mm) gap between the tunnel wall and the platform wall, which is made of 4-inch (100 mm)-thick brick covered over by a tiled finish. The columns between the tracks are also spaced every 5 feet (1.5 m), with no infill.[27]: 3
Exits
Towards the northwest end of the mezzanine, a single extra-wide staircase from each platform goes up to a crossover, where a
On the southeast side of the mezzanine,
On the extreme northwest (railroad south) end of the platforms, high turnstiles lead to a single staircase that goes up to either western corners of 63rd Road and Queens Boulevard, the northwest one for the Manhattan-bound platform and the southwest one for the Forest Hills-bound platform.[28] Prior to 2010, these entry points were exit-only.[29] They were made entrances to accommodate traffic from the expansion of Rego Center.
Unfinished Rockaway spur
East of this station, there is an unfinished signal tower on the Jamaica-bound (railroad north) platform and a
References
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ a b Duffus, R.L. (September 22, 1929). "OUR GREAT SUBWAY NETWORK SPREADS WIDER; New Plans of Board of Transportation Involve the Building of More Than One Hundred Miles of Additional Rapid Transit Routes for New York". The New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
- ^ "QUEENS SUBWAY WORK AHEAD OF SCHEDULE: Completion Will Lead to Big Apartrnent Building, Says William C. Speers". The New York Times. April 7, 1929. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New Subway Routes in Hylan Program to Cost $186,046,000" (PDF). The New York Times. March 21, 1925. p. 1.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
- ^ Neufeld, Ernest (August 23, 1936). "Men Toil Under Earth to Build Subway" (PDF). Long Island Daily Press. p. 2 (Section 2). Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ See:
- "500 More Quit Subway Work On Boulevard: General Strike Order Issued Today; 72 Walk Out in Jamaica" (PDF). Long Island Daily Press. April 2, 1935. p. 2. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
- "Aldermen Probe Strike on Subway" (PDF). Long Island Daily Press. April 3, 1935. p. 4. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
- ProQuest 101425888.
- ISBN 978-3-642-30484-2.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
- ProQuest 1222323973.
- ^ "Trains Testing Jamaica Link Of City Subway". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 10, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ "Jamaica Will Greet Subway" (PDF). The New York Sun. April 23, 1937. p. 8. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Late Night Subway Service" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 23, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
- ^ "E Subway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "F Subway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "M Subway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "R Subway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
- ^ Carlson, Jen (February 18, 2016). "Map: These Color Tiles In The Subway System Used To Mean Something". Gothamist. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
- ^ Gleason, Will (February 18, 2016). "The hidden meaning behind the New York subway's colored tiles". Time Out New York. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
- ^ a b "New York MPS Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)". Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006, Series: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 - 2017, Box: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: New York, ID: 05000672. National Archives.
- ^ a b c "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Forest Hills" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
- ^ Google (July 21, 2021). "96-5 New York 25 Service, New York" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Tomb Ov The Unknown Tunnel". ltvsquad.com. January 21, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^ "The Express Stop That Never Was". ltvsquad.com. LTV Squad. June 2, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ Kihss, Peter (April 13, 1967). "3 Routes Proposed to Aid Growing Queens Areas" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ a b "City Plans to Buy New Subway Link: Would Take Over Rockaway Branch of Long Island to Connect With Queens" (PDF). The New York Times. December 23, 1933. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
- ^ "Complete Text of TA's Queens Subway Plan". Long Island Star-Journal. Fultonhistory.com. April 1, 1963. p. 8. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Perlow, Austin H. (March 15, 1957). "New Rockaway Link Possible at Bargain Price". Long Island Star-Journal. Fultonhistory.com. p. 6. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
- ^ Capt. Subway (January 21, 2013). "Guest Post: How sending the R train to Howard Beach can help the G go to Forest Hills". Cap'n Transit Rides Again Blog. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
External links
- nycsubway.org – IND Queens Boulevard Line: 63rd Drive/Rego Park
- nycsubway.org – The History of the Independent Subway:
- Station Reporter — R Train
- Station Reporter — M Train
- Forgotten NY: Subways and Trains — Rockaway Branch
- Forgotten NY: Subways and Trains — Subway Signs to Nowhere
- The Subway Nut - 63rd Drive–Rego Park Pictures Archived January 5, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- 63rd Road exit only stair from Google Maps Street View
- 63rd Drive entrance from Google Maps Street View
- 64th Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View