Roosevelt Island (IND 63rd Street Line)

Roosevelt Island
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Main Street near Road 5
New York, NY 10044
Borough Manhattan
Locale Roosevelt Island
Coordinates 40°45′33″N 73°57′12″W / 40.759188°N 73.953438°W / 40.759188; -73.953438Coordinates: 40°45′33″N 73°57′12″W / 40.759188°N 73.953438°W / 40.759188; -73.953438
Division B (IND)
Line IND 63rd Street Line
Services       F  (all times)
Transit connections Aerial tramway transportation Roosevelt Island Tramway
MTA Bus: Q102
RIOC: Red Bus, Octagon Express
Structure Underground
Depth 100 feet (30 m)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened October 29, 1989 (1989-10-29)[1]
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,966,493[2] Increase 5.1%
Rank 252 out of 422
Station succession
Next north 21st Street – Queensbridge: F 
Next south Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street: F 

Roosevelt Island is a station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Manhattan on Roosevelt Island in the East River, it is served by the F train at all times.

Station layout

G Street Level Exit/ Entrance
B1 Upper Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
(Elevators at station house)
B2 Lower Mezzanine Transfer between platforms
B3
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Southbound ← toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street)
Northbound → toward Jamaica – 179th Street (21st Street – Queensbridge) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
B4 Track 1 ← LIRR East Side Access (under construction)
Track 2 → LIRR East Side Access (under construction) →

The station opened on October 29, 1989 in conjunction with the partial completion of the 63rd Street Tunnel.[1] The station has two tracks and two side platforms. It is the fourth deepest station in the New York City Subway at about 100 feet (30 m) below street level (approximately 10 stories deep) behind 34th Street – Hudson Yards, 190th Street, and 191st Street stations, also in Manhattan.[3] Due to its depth, the station contains several features not common in the rest of the system. Similar to stations of the Paris Metro and Washington Metro, the Roosevelt Island station was built with a high vaulted ceiling and a mezzanine directly visible above the tracks. These features can also be found on some of the system's other deep stations, including Grand Central, 168th Street, and 181st Street stations, along with future stations along the Second Avenue Subway. The station is fully ADA-accessible, with elevators to street level. Fare control is in a glass-enclosed building off of Main Street. West of this station, there is a diamond crossover and two bellmouths for possible service south on the Second Avenue Subway. There is an emergency exit from the future LIRR's lower level at the middle of each platform.

At an April 14, 2008 news conference, Governor David Paterson announced that the MTA will power a substantial portion of the station using tidal energy generated by turbines located in the East River which are part of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project.[4] This is part of a larger MTA initiative to use sustainable energy resources within the subway system.[5]

Gallery

References

  1. 1 2 Lorch, Donatella (October 29, 1989). "The 'Subway to Nowhere' Now Goes Somewhere". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  3. ↑ The Deepest and Highest Subway Stations in NYC: 191st St, 190th Street, Smith & 9th
  4. ↑ "Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project". Devine Tarbell & Associates, Inc. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  5. ↑ Ehrlich, David (April 15, 2008). "New York transit going green". Clean Tech Group, LLC. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008.

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