Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street (New York City Subway)

Infobox NYCS
name = Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street


bg_color = black
accessible = yes
service = Roosevelt
borough = Queens
coords = coord|40|44|48.35|N|73|53|29.47|W|display=title
connection = Q33 bus to LaGuardia Airport
connection_2 = Q47 bus to LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal

Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street is a New York City Subway station complex served by the IRT Flushing Line and the IND Queens Boulevard Line. Located at 74th Street, Broadway, and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, it is served by the NYCS|7, NYCS|E, and NYCS|F trains at all times, by the NYCS|R train at all times except late nights, by the NYCS|V train weekdays, and by the NYCS|G train late nights and weekends. The New York based firm of Fox & Fowle served as the design architects of the new intermodal facility in association with Skanska as engineering consultants.Fact|date=May 2008

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IND Queens Boulevard Line platforms

Infobox NYCS
name = Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue


accessible = yes
bg_color = #11117D
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
service = Queens
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Queens
open_date = August 19, 1933
north_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
north_local_station = Elmhurst Avenue
north_local_service = Queens local
north_express_station = Forest Hills–71st Avenue
north_express_service = Queens express
south_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
south_local_station = 65th Street
south_local_service = Queens local
south_express_station = Queens Plaza
south_express_station_acc = yes
south_express_service = Queens Plaza express
south_custom_station = NYCS next|type=Express via 63rd Street|station=21st Street–Queensbridge|line=IND 63rd Street Line|acc=yes|service=63rd IND

Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue on the IND Queens Boulevard Line has four tracks and two island platforms. This station has a blue color stripe with black border and no name tablet. I-beams are painted gold. There is a transfer to the elevated IRT Flushing Line. The fare control is in the center of the mezzanine which does have a free crossover. Exiting the north fare control in the mezzanine and following the passageway will take you to the built-but-never-used Roosevelt Avenue terminal station. There is an unused trackway for westbound local trains beginning at outer wall just east of the station, rises up to the same level as 2 trackways, making 3 trackways on the upper level. At 78th Street, 3 trackways on upper level curve to the south, ending at "temporary" wall at the edge of constructed subway. Next to the Jamaica-Bound Local Track, a fourth local trackway for eastbound local trains is seen also curving to the south and similarly ending on a wall. The 4-track subway running south was a plan for a line to the Rockaways and South Jamaica proposed in 1929.

IRT Flushing Line platforms

Infobox NYCS
name = 74th Street–Broadway

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accessible = yes
bg_color = #870061
line = IRT Flushing Line
service = Flushing local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 3
open_date = April 21, 1917
north_station = 82nd Street–Jackson Heights
north_line = IRT Flushing Line
north_service = Flushing local
south_station = 69th Street
south_line = IRT Flushing Line
south_service = Flushing local

74th Street–Broadway on the IRT Flushing Line has three tracks and two side platforms. The station has two exits, both of which connect to the IND Queens Boulevard Line via five long escalators: three at 73rd Street and two at 74th. The 74th Street mezzanine has a wooden floor with windscreen on the stairs. There is a booth with crossunder. The 73rd Street mezzanine contains wooden stair walls, no windows, and no booth (the booth being in the IND entrance at the street level). From the mezzanines, there are 54 steps to this entrance. The canopy at the south end is different and appears to have been added later than the original canopy.

In recent years, the area had been under heavy renovation, with construction on a new station building completed in 2005. The 2004 artwork here is called "Passage" by Tom Patti.

Bus connections

*Q19B, Q32, Q33, Q45, Q47, and Q53

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?195:373|IRT Flushing Line|74th Street/Broadway
*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:2526|IND Queens Boulevard Line|Roosevelt Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/74roos.htm 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue Complex]
* [http://www.74thandroosevelt.com/ Photo essay on 74th St. and Roosevelt Ave.]