Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station

Coordinates: 40°44′34″N 73°57′14″W / 40.74264°N 73.95391°W / 40.74264; -73.95391
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 Vernon Blvd–Jackson Avenue
 
Q103
  • Ferry transport NYC Ferry: East River (at Hunter's Point South)
    • StructureUnderground
    Platforms2 side platforms
    Tracks2
    Other information
    OpenedJune 22, 1915; 108 years ago (1915-06-22)
    Accessiblenot ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
    Opposite-
    direction
    transfer    		No
    Former/other namesVernon–Jackson Avenues
    Traffic
    20233,631,659[2] Increase 16.7%
    Rank81 out of 423[2]
    Services
    Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
    <7> rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction​
    toward 34th Street–Hudson Yards
    <7> rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction​
    toward Flushing–Main Street
    Location
    Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station is located in New York City Subway
    Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station
    Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station is located in New York City
    Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station
    Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station is located in New York
    Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station
    Track layout

    Legend
    to
    Hunters Point Avenue
    to
    Grand Central–42nd Street
    Street map

    Map

    Station service legend
    Symbol Description
    Stops all times Stops all times
    Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

    The Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station (often informally referred to as Vernon–Jackson station; formerly Vernon–Jackson Avenues station) is a

    <7>
    train rush hours in the peak direction. Although there is a nearby intersection of Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue, the station is located one block north of that intersection, on 50th Avenue, between Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue, both of which have entrances to the station.

    History

    The

    Flushing from there.[5][7] The tunnel, with trolley loops on both the Manhattan and Queens sides, had sat unused since 1907, when test runs had been performed in the then-nearly-complete tunnel. The Queens trolley loop was near Vernon Avenue (now Vernon Boulevard) in Long Island City.[8]

    The Vernon–Jackson Avenues station opened on June 22, 1915, as a terminal for shuttle trains going into Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel until the line was extended to

    Hunters Point Avenue on February 5, 1916.[9][10] A westerly extension of the Manhattan-bound platform opened for service on December 20, 1923.[11]

    The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.

    rollsigns with numbered designations for each service.[14] The route from Times Square to Flushing became known as the 7.[15] In 1949, the New York City Board of Transportation announced that the Flushing Line platforms would be lengthened to 11 IRT car lengths; the platforms were only able to fit nine 51-foot-long IRT cars beforehand.[16][17] The platforms at the station were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains.[18] However, nine-car trains continued to run on the 7 route until 1962, when they were extended to ten cars.[19]

    In 1981, the MTA listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.[20]

    1997 station agent murder

    In 1997, this station was the site of a night station agent being killed for subway tokens.

    NYCT
    guards clear the vending machines.

    Station layout

    Ground Street level Entrances/exits
    Platform level Side platform
    Southbound ← "7" train"7" express train toward 34th Street–Hudson Yards (Grand Central–42nd Street)
    Northbound → "7" train"7" express train toward Flushing–Main Street (Hunters Point Avenue) →
    Side platform
    Manhattan-bound street stairway
    The Train of Many Colors at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue in 2016.

    This underground station has two side platforms and two tracks. A black wall separates the two tracks for most of the station.

    Both platforms have a line of yellow columns along their edges. Most of these are normal I-beam columns, but in the middle of the platforms, cream colored arches, which is also the color of the station's ceiling, starting at about four feet off the ground support a short section of the columns. The platform walls have a mosaic gold and brown trim line on top while the name tablets are mosaic white with white text reading "Vernon-Jackson Ave's" (erroneous if the use is considered in the possessive context, but it can also be considered as a contractional form of the plural) on a brown background and gold and brown border. There are also a few directional signs to the station's fare control areas reading "Vernon Ave" or "Jackson Ave" with an arrow beneath.

    Exits

    Each platform has two same-level fare control areas and there are no crossovers or crossunders connecting the platforms. The full-time fare control areas are just west of the middle of the platforms, though only the Manhattan-bound platform still has a token booth. Each area has a small regular turnstile bank and two staircases to the street, the northeast corner of Vernon Boulevard and 50th Avenue for the Manhattan-bound platform and the southwest corner for the Flushing-bound platform. The southern staircase's steel fencing does not have the standard black sign saying what station this is and what trains serve it.[22]

    Each platform also has a larger, unstaffed fare control on their extreme east (railroad north) ends. On the Manhattan-bound platform, a wide, but short staircase goes up to some High Entry/Exit Turnstiles that lead to two street stairs, one to each northern corners of 50th Avenue and Jackson Avenue. This entrance at one time had a part-time token booth and regular turnstiles. The Flushing-bound platform has a similar arrangement with short staircase to a wide intermediate landing with an exit-only turnstile at each corner. Outside the turnstiles is a single street stair, each going up to each southern corners of 50th Avenue and Jackson Avenue.[22]

    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.
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      (PDF) from the original on July 7, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
    5. ^ a b Rogoff, David (1960). "The Steinway Tunnels". Electric Railroads. No. 29. Electric Railroaders' Association. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
    6. ISBN 978-0-8018-8054-4. Archived
      from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
    7. ^ New Subways For New York: The Dual System of Rapid Transit Chapter 1: Dual System of Rapid Transit. New York State Public Service Commission. 1913. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
    8. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
      from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
    9. ^ "Queensboro Tunnel Officially Opened". The New York Times. June 23, 1915. p. 22. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
    10. ^ "Subway extension Open.; Many Use New Hunters Point Avenue Station" (PDF). Retrieved August 31, 2016.
    11. ^ Proceedings of the Transit Commission, State of New York Volume III From January 1 to December 31, 1923. New York State Transit Commission. 1923. p. 1310.
    12. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
      from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
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    14. ^ Brown, Nicole (May 17, 2019). "How did the MTA subway lines get their letter or number? NYCurious". amNewYork. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
    15. ^ Friedlander, Alex; Lonto, Arthur; Raudenbush, Henry (April 1960). "A Summary of Services on the IRT Division, NYCTA" (PDF). New York Division Bulletin. 3 (1). Electric Railroaders' Association: 2–3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
    16. ISSN 0362-4331
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    18. ^ Minutes and Proceedings of the New York City Transit Authority. New York City Transit Authority. 1955. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
    19. ^ "R17s to the Flushing Line". New York Division Bulletin. 5 (6). Electric Railroaders' Association: M-8. December 1962 – via Issuu.
    20. ^ Gargan, Edward A. (June 11, 1981). "Agency Lists Its 69 Most Deteriorated Subway Stations". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
    21. ^ Onishi, Norimitsu (March 25, 1997). "In His 'Safe' Station, Subway Clerk, 60, Is Killed". The New York Times. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
    22. ^ a b "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Long Island City" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.

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