Division A (IRT) Services 7 (all times) Structure Elevated Opened 21 April 1917 Locale Woodside | Line IRT Flushing Line Transit connections NYCT Bus: Q32 Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Queens Tracks 3 | |
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Address Queens, NY 11377, United States Similar 69th Street, 46th Street–Bliss Street, Junction Boulevard, 40th Street–Lowery Street, Hunters Point Avenue | ||
52nd Street (also known as 52nd Street–Lincoln Avenue) is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 52nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens, it is served by the 7 train at all times.
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History
The Flushing Line was opened from Queensboro Plaza to 103rd Street–Corona Plaza on April 21, 1917, with a local station at 52nd Street.
The platforms at 52nd Street were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains.
Station layout
This elevated station has two side platforms and three tracks. The center express track is used by the rush hour peak direction <7> express train. Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies with green roofs along the entire length except for a small section at the south end, which has only a windscreen on the eastbound side and a waist-high steel fence on the westbound side.
This is the southernmost (geographical west) station on the IRT Flushing Line that is on a steel viaduct above Roosevelt Avenue. West of this station, the line curves and becomes a concrete viaduct above Queens Boulevard until 32nd Place.
Exits
This station has two entrances. The full-time one is a wooden elevated station house beneath the tracks at the south end. It has a single staircase to each platform, waiting area that allows free transfer between directions, turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases to the street, one to either western corners of 52nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue.
The other entrance is at the station's extreme north (geographical east) end. A single canopied staircase from each platform goes down a landing outside of a now-closed elevated station house beneath the tracks. A single HEET turnstile provides entrance/exit from the station before a street stair goes down 53rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue. The Manhattan-bound staircase is at the northeast corner while the Flushing-bound one is at the southeast corner.