61st Street – Woodside (IRT Flushing Line)
61st Street – Woodside  | |||||||||
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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7 train of R62A subway cars at the station | |||||||||
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| 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°WCoordinates: 40°44′44.19″N 73°54′10.68″W / 40.7456083°N 73.9029667°W | ||||||||
| 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,  Q70 LIRR: City Terminal Zone and Port Washington Branch (at Woodside) | ||||||||
| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||
| Platforms |
2 island platforms cross-platform interchange | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | April 21, 1917 | ||||||||
| Accessible |
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| Former/other names | Woodside – 61st Street | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
5,432,682[1]  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> | ||||||||
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| Next north |
74th Street – Broadway (local): 7 Junction Boulevard (express): <7> | ||||||||
| Next south |
Court Square: 7 <7> | ||||||||
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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 |
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
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 61st Street – Woodside (IRT Flushing Line). |
- nycsubway.org—IRT Flushing Line: 61st Street/Woodside
- nycsubway.org — Commuting/Community Artwork by John Cavanagh (1986)
- nycsubway.org — Woodside Continuum Artwork by Dimitri Gerakaris (1999)
- Station Reporter — 7 Train
- The Subway Nut — 61st Street – Woodside Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Woodside – 61st Street (IRT Flushing Line)
- 61st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Station as seen from the LIRR platforms from Google Maps Street View
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