61st Street – Woodside (IRT Flushing Line)

61st Street – Woodside
 
New York City Subway rapid transit station

7 train of R62A subway cars at the station
Station statistics
Address 61st Street & Roosevelt Avenue
Queens, NY 11377
Borough Queens
Locale Woodside
Coordinates 40°44′44.19″N 73°54′10.68″W / 40.7456083°N 73.9029667°W / 40.7456083; -73.9029667Coordinates: 40°44′44.19″N 73°54′10.68″W / 40.7456083°N 73.9029667°W / 40.7456083; -73.9029667
Division A (IRT)
Line       IRT Flushing Line
Services       7  (all times) <7> (rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: Q32
MTA Bus: Q18, Q53, Airport transportation Q70
Railway transportation LIRR: City Terminal Zone and Port Washington Branch (at Woodside)
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks 3
Other information
Opened April 21, 1917 (1917-04-21)
Accessible
Former/other names Woodside – 61st Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 5,432,682[1]Increase 1.4%
Rank 82 out of 422
Station succession
Next north 69th Street (local): 7 
Junction Boulevard (express): <7>
Next south 52nd Street (local): 7 
Queensboro Plaza (express): <7>


Next north 74th Street – Broadway (local): 7 
Junction Boulevard (express): <7>
Next south Court Square: 7  <7>

61st Street – Woodside (announced as Woodside – 61st Street on some trains) is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway located at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. It is served by the 7 train, with additional peak-direction <7> service during rush hours.

History

61st Street – Woodside opened on April 21, 1917, as part of an extension of the IRT Flushing Line to 103rd Street – Corona Plaza. The Long Island Rail Road station below the subway platforms dates to 1869.

Station layout

3F Southbound local toward 34th Street – Hudson Yards (52nd Street)
Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
Peak-direction express toward 34th Street – Hudson Yards (AM rush) (Queensboro Plaza)
toward Flushing – Main Street (PM rush) (Junction Boulevard)
Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
Northbound local toward Flushing – Main Street (69th Street)
2F Mezzanine to entrances/exits, stairways to LIRR platforms, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
(Elevator at NE corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street)
1F - LIRR platforms
G Street Level Entrances/Exits
Street-level access is available for both the 61st Street station and the Woodside LIRR station

This station has two island platforms and three tracks. The two outer tracks are used for the full-time 7 local service while the bidirectional center track is used for rush hour peak-direction <7> express service. There is a mezzanine located at the center, underneath the platforms, with a new ADA-accessible elevator to each platform.

Entrance and exit are provided by long stairs down to street level on the northern curb of Roosevelt Avenue at 61st Street, as well as to other nearby locations via the LIRR platforms. An ADA-compliant elevator provides access to street level at the northeast corner of 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue, while a long escalator at the southeast corner provides entrance only. The Woodside station of the Long Island Rail Road is located directly beneath the Flushing Line station; any of the three LIRR platforms can be accessed directly from the mezzanine.

Artwork includes John Cavanagh's Commuting/Community (1986), located near the stairway down to LIRR Track 4, and Dimitri Gerakaris' Woodside Continuum (1999), which forms part of the steel-grating fare-control separation.

In popular culture

This station was used for a scene in John Cassavetes's 1980 film Gloria.

References

  1. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.

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