Woodhaven Boulevard is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line on the New York City Subway, consisting of four lanes. Located in the Elmhurst Queens neighborhood, it is serviced by R trains at any time except night, when train E takes over the service. Train M provides additional services here on weekdays except nights. The station serves the adjacent Queens Center Mall, as well as many bus lines.
Woodhaven Boulevard opened on 31 December 1936, as Woodhaven Boulevard-Slattery Plaza . At that time, the station is part of the Independent Towards System. The plaza was destroyed in the 1950s, but the name tablet displaying the station's original name was stored. In the 1980s, the Woodhaven Boulevard station was named after the Queens Center, an adjacent shopping mall. The station was renovated in the 1990s after years of decline.
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History
The Queens Boulevard Line is one of the first lines built by the city's Independent Subway System (IND), and runs between IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The Queens Boulevard Line is partially financed by Public Works Administration (PWA) loans and a grant of $ 25,000,000.
During the construction of the station, Queens Boulevard's main road was pressed into an underpass at the intersection with Woodhaven Boulevard and Horace Harding Boulevard (also known as Nassau Boulevard). The easternmost bottom line now brings Queens Boulevard under the Long Island Expressway (LIE), which replaces Horace Harding Boulevard. On December 31, 1936, the IND Queens Boulevard Line was extended by eight stops, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the previous terminal on Roosevelt Avenue to Union Turnpike, and Woodhaven Boulevard station was opened as part of this extension. As a result of the expansion, the area at Elmhurst is accessible by subway.
The station was originally called "Woodhaven Blvd-Slattery Plaza", after Slattery Plaza, the area where Queens's four main streets (Eliot Avenue and Horace Harding, Woodhaven, and Queens Boulevards) intersected. The Plaza, which no longer exists, featured several small "mom-and-pop" businesses. The square and the subway station are named after Colonel John R. Slattery, a former chief engineer of the New York City Transportation Council who died in 1932 while overseeing the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line. The construction of LIE along the Horace Harding corridor in the 1950s resulted in the demolition of Slattery Plaza, although the name tablet retains its real name even after the demolition of the plaza.
The Queens Center Mall first opened in 1973, but the name convention on the subway map was not used until the mid-1980s. This station became dilapidated in the 1980s due to lack of maintenance over the years, and in 1981, the MTA registered stations among the 69 most damaged stations in the subway system. The station is also widely used, serving 15,000 passengers per day in 1993. In 1993, the Woodhaven Boulevard station started a three-year renovation project as part of a general repair of seventy New York City Subway stations. The restoration adds a new station agent booth, as well as replaced platform tiles, stair components, and lighting; adding new signs and footprints on the edge of the platform; and restore toilet station. After the renovation, the station retained the "full name" of Woodhaven Blvd-Slattery Plaza "which is outdated.
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Station layout
Built as a local station, the station is built with the provision of bells to allow conversion to an express station. A close observation of both ends of the station reveals that the tunnel wall extends outward to allow room for two side platforms to be replaced by the island platform, with local tracks taking the side platform venue. The station will accommodate large system expansions, with additional services coming from the Roosevelt Avenue Terminal station and the former LIRR Rockaway Line. Requests to move stations are also filed by the local community as soon as the station is opened, due to heavy bus traffic feeding to the station and the density at the Roosevelt Avenue stop.
The name of the tablet at this station still retains the original name of Woodhaven Boulevard-Slattery Plaza. The roasting at this station consists of a blue band with a black border, similar to the tilework found at Elmhurst Avenue stop, two western stations.
The all-long mezzanine station allows crossover from one of the four station stairs of each platform, with a total of eight flights from the mezzanine to the platform level. There is no direct indoor access to the Queens Center Mall entrance on the northwest corner of Queens Boulevard and 59th Avenue from the mezzanine.
The 1996 artwork here is called In Memory Battalion Missed by Pablo Tauler. It uses nine beam support in mezzanine stations wrapped in a variety of materials - including glass, iron, and stainless steel - to honor soldiers who served in the 77th Infantry Division during World War I.
Exit
The full-time side at the western end of the mezzanine has three steps. One leads to the northeast corner of Queens Boulevard and 59th Avenue, which is closest to the mall. Two other stairs through a long hallway to both the southern corners of Queens Boulevard and Woodhaven Boulevard, which serve as pedestrian promenade paths beyond tariff control. These ladders date back to the original opening of the station. There is an entrance to the southeast corner of Woodhaven and Queens Boulevards which, as a result of the construction of the Long Island Expressway in the mid-1950s, leads only to two lanes to the highway, without sidewalks continuing to the entrance.
The part-time part at Horace Harding Boulevard's former on the east end has a closed and removed booth and a staircase on the north side of Queens Boulevard on 92nd Street. The entrance is bordered by two ramps and leads to the former Horace Harding Boulevard, now replaced by the LIE exit. This exit still has directional mosaics that lead to it, showing the exit as 60th Avenue and 92nd Street on the north side of Queens Boulevard. The construction of Long Island Expressway removes this intersection. This is also the ladder that the station's opening date.
Bus service
The nearby Queens Station and Queens Center Mall is served by nine local Bus MTA Bus Routes and two express bus routes. Three of the four Woodhaven Boulevard bus lines (Q11, Q21, Q52 SBS) end up at the station, with the SBS Q53 bus continuing west toward Woodside - 61st Street Station. Except for Q88, Q59 Rego Park-bound, Jamaican-bound Q60, and Corona-bound Q38, all north buses stop at the mall entrance, while all the southern buses as well as QM10 and QM11 express buses stop at Hoffman Drive adjacent to Hoffman Park. Q88 ends on 92nd Street, between the two halves of the mall.
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References
External links
- nycsubway.org - IND Queens Boulevard Line: Woodhaven Boulevard/Queens Mall
- Station Reporter - Train R
- Station Reporter - M Train
- Art MTA For Transit - Woodhaven Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
- The Subway Nut - Woodhaven Boulevard Picture
- Woodhaven Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Horace Harding Toll Road (Long Island Expressway) from Google Maps Street View
- Platform from Google Maps Street View
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