65th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 65th Street

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font_color = black
bg_color = #FFC800
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
service = Queens local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Queens
open_date = August 19, 1936
north_station = Roosevelt Avenue–Jackson Heights
north_station_acc = yes
north_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
north_service = Queens local
south_station = Northern Boulevard
south_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
south_service = Queens local

65th Street is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 65th Street and Broadway in Queens.

Signs to the Forest Hills-bound platform are on the wall instead of hanging over the staircase. The reason for this was because the original 1933 IND tile sign read "Jamaica and Rockaway", anticipating construction of a never-built system expansion. These signs remained uncovered at late as 2005. The 1933 Manhattan-bound tile signs remain intact. The tile band is purple. The full-time mezzanine is at the eastern end has three staircases to each platform and two staircases to the street. Both sides had fare controls and former booths at platform levels at the far western end, at the opposite end of the current mezzanine. They have since been sealed.

West of this station, the express tracks become depressed and break from the local tracks. Express run underneath Northern Boulevard, while the local continue under Broadway and then turn to Steinway Street before meeting up with the express trains underneath Northern and Steinway. The line was built this way because Broadway and Steinway Street are too narrow to align four tracks side by side underneath them.

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:344|IND Queens Boulevard Line|65th Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]