Queens Plaza station

Coordinates: 40°44′56″N 73°56′15″W / 40.748915°N 73.937387°W / 40.748915; -73.937387
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Not to be confused with Queensboro Plaza station.

 Queens Plaza
 
Q102
StructureUnderground
Platforms2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks4
Other information
OpenedAugust 19, 1933; 90 years ago (1933-08-19)
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
20233,645,653[2] Increase 36.9%
Rank83 out of 423[2]
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
Court Square–23rd Street
E all times ​M weekdays during the day
via Fifth Avenue/53rd Street
Express 		Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue
E all except late nights
toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer

Local 		36th Street
E late nights ​M weekdays during the day ​R all hours except late nights
toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue
Lexington Avenue–59th Street
R all except late nights
toward Bay Ridge–95th Street
Local
Location
Queens Plaza station is located in New York City Subway
Queens Plaza station
Queens Plaza station is located in New York City
Queens Plaza station
Queens Plaza station is located in New York
Queens Plaza station
Track layout

Legend
to
Jackson Hts–Roosevelt Ave
to 36th Street
to Lexington Avenue–59th Street
from Lexington Avenue–59th Street
to Court Square (Crosstown)
to Court Square–23rd Street
Revenue tracks
Non-revenue tracks
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only
Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekdays during the day

The Queens Plaza station is an express station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located under the eastern edge of Queens Plaza at the large Queens Plaza interchange, it is served by the E train at all times, by the R train at all times except late nights, and by the M train on weekdays during the day.

While situated relatively close to the elevated

Queensboro Plaza station on the BMT Astoria Line and IRT Flushing Line
, there is no free transfer between the two stations.

History

Look Up Not Down, Glass Mosaic, Ellen Harvey (2005)

The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned

179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.[4][6][7] The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million.[8]
One of the proposed stations would have been located at Steinway Street.

The first section of the line, west from

23rd Street–Ely Avenue
.

Until the opening of the

Court Square.[16]

In 1978, the

36th Street stations.[16]

To speed up passenger flow, dozens of platform conductors were assigned to direct crowds at the Queens Plaza station during the late 1980s.[20] In 2002, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that elevators would be installed at the Queens Plaza station.[21]

Station layout

Ground Street level Exits/entrances
Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
Disabled access Elevator at southwest corner of Queens Plaza South and Jackson Avenue
Platform level Southbound local ← "M" train toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue weekdays (Court Square–23rd Street)
← "R" train toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Lexington Avenue–59th Street)
← "E" train toward World Trade Center late nights (Court Square–23rd Street)
← (No service: Court Square)
Island platform Disabled access
Southbound express ← "E" train toward World Trade Center (Court Square–23rd Street)
Northbound express → "E" train toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (36th Street late nights, Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue other times) →
→ "M" train toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays (36th Street) →
Island platform Disabled access
Northbound local → "R" train toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (36th Street) →
New tile caption and trim line

Like most express stations in the subway, Queens Plaza has two

Lexington Avenue/59th Street for R trains.[26]

Its tile band is of the darkest shade of the

Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue, the next express station to the east; the original purple tiles used at the Queens Plaza station were also used at all local stations between Queens Plaza and Roosevelt Avenue.[28][29]
Slate purple I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.

Track layout

West of the station, M and nighttime E trains cross to the express track from the local track. R trains stay on the local tracks, which split to the

53rd Street Tunnel to Manhattan.[22]

East of the station, M and nighttime E trains cross from the express track to the local track; after which, the tunnel widens to include a lay-up track that forms from the two express tracks and then merges with the northbound express track. This storage track was formerly used to turn around

IND 63rd Street Line ramps to rise and lead trains to merge with either the local or express tracks.[22]

Exits

Queensboro Plaza
station

The full-time booth is near the center of the

mezzanine. There are three staircases to the street on all corners of Queens Boulevard and Jackson Avenue except the northern one. There is an outside passageway to two more staircases near the southern and western corners of Jackson Avenue and Orchard Street at the south end near a former booth. The old-style change booth was in place until it was removed in 1998. Two of the outside entrances were redone to match the facade of the DOT indoor parking lot structure when it was constructed in 1975.[30]

Before the renovation, the station had a full length mezzanine (inside and outside of

63rd Street Connection. The part-time booth has two stairs to the northwest and southeast corners of Northern Boulevard at 41st Avenue, and one to each platform.[30][31]

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^
    Newspapers.com
    .
  7. New York Times, New Subway Routes in Hylan Program to Cost $186,046,000
    , March 21, 1925, page 1
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  9. ISBN 978-0-915276-50-9
    .
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    .
  11. ^ "Independent Subway Services Beginning in 1932". thejoekorner.com. August 21, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  12. ^ "TWO SUBWAY UNITS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT; Links in City-Owned System in Queens and Brooklyn to Have 15 Stations" (PDF). The New York Times. August 18, 1933. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
  13. ^ "New Queens Subway Service Will Be Launched Tonight; Tunnel From Manhattan Open to Jackson Heights; Service Will Eventually Be Extended Through To Jamaica". Long Island Daily Press. Fultonhistory.com. August 18, 1933. p. 20. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  14. ^ "New Queens Tube To Open Saturday: Brooklyn-Long Island City Link of City Line Also to Be Put in Operation". New York Evening Post. Fultonhistory.com. August 17, 1933. p. 18. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  15. ^ "1937 IND system map" (PDF). NYCSubway. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  16. ^ a b Kershaw, Sarah (December 17, 2001). "V Train Begins Service Today, Giving Queens Commuters Another Option". The New York Times. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  17. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  18. ^ Andelman, David A. (October 11, 1980). "Tunnel Project, Five Years Old, Won't Be Used" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 25. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  19. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved February 11, 2018.
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  21. ^ "NYC Transit's Goals for 2002" (PDF). The Bulletin. Vol. 45, no. 10. Electric Railroaders' Association. October 2002. p. 1.
  22. ^
    Dropbox
    . Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  23. ^ "E Subway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  24. ^ "M Subway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  25. ^ "R Subway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  26. ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  27. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  28. ^ Carlson, Jen (February 18, 2016). "Map: These Color Tiles In The Subway System Used To Mean Something". Gothamist. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  29. ^ Gleason, Will (February 18, 2016). "The hidden meaning behind the New York subway's colored tiles". Time Out New York. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  30. ^ a b "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Long Island City" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  31. ^ * NYC Transit Committee Agenda January 1995. New York City Transit. January 20, 1995. pp. D.80.

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