Division B (IND) Structure Underground Opened 19 August 1933 Locale Astoria | Transit connections MTA Bus: Q101, Q104 Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Queens Tracks 2 | |
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Line IND Queens Boulevard Line Services E (late nights)
M (weekdays until 11 p.m.)
R (all hours except late nights) Address Queens, NY 11103, United States Similar Astoria, 46th Street, 67th Avenue, Woodhaven Boulevard, 36th Street | ||
Steinway Street is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the R train at all times except nights, when the E train takes over service. The M train provides additional service here on weekdays except nights.
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History
The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25,000,000. One of the proposed stations would have been located at Steinway Street.
The first section of the line, west from Roosevelt Avenue to 50th Street, opened on August 19, 1933. E trains ran local to Hudson Terminal (today's World Trade Center) in Manhattan, while the GG (predecessor to current G service) ran as a shuttle service between Queens Plaza and Nassau Avenue on the IND Crosstown Line.
Station layout
This station has two tracks and two side platforms. The platform tiles are white with a purple trim line and narrow black border. Beneath them are black tiles with the word "STEINWAY" in white. The name tablets have a purple border, white letters, and black tile backgrounds. Purple i-beam columns run at regular intervals along both platforms.
South of this station, the express tracks rejoin the local tracks and the line becomes four tracks again.
Exits
There are two separate mezzanines, one at each end of the station, and crossover is allowed on both of them. The full-time side on Steinway Street near Broadway has two street stairs. This side has two small staircases to the southbound side and a single platform-wide staircase on the northbound side. The part-time side at 34th Avenue and Steinway Street currently has no booth (it had been completely dismantled for asbestos abatement), and is HEET turnstile access at all times. This side has two stairs to the street to the northeast and southwest corners, and one to each platform.