63rd Drive–Rego Park (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 63rd Drive–Rego Park

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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
connection = Q72 to LaGuardia Airport
open_date = December 31, 1936
north_station = 67th Avenue
north_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
north_service = Queens local
south_station = Woodhaven Boulevard
south_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
south_service = Queens local

63rd Drive–Rego Park is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, located at 63rd Drive and Queens Boulevard in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens.

This local station has two side platforms and four tracks. The NYCS|G, NYCS|R, NYCS|V, and late-night NYCS|E services stop on the outer local tracks, while NYCS|F and daytime NYCS|E services bypass the station on the center express tracks. There is a full-length mezzanine, but crossover within fare control is only available at the westernmost end. There are four fare control areas: two exit-only areas at the western end (one on each side of Queens Boulevard), a full-time booth at the center, and a part-time booth at the east end. Both booths have stairs to both sides of Queens Boulevard; they also have underpasses allowing pedestrians to avoid crossing on the surface.

The station was opened on December 30, 1936, as part of the extension of the Queens Boulevard Line east from Roosevelt Avenue–Jackson Heights to Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike. In accordance with a 1940 Independent Subway expansion proposal, bellmouths were constructed into the Queens Boulevard tunnel walls just east of the station. These trackways were to lead to the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Line, which would have been acquired and converted for subway service. In anticipation of this expansion, mosaic signs saying "Rockaway Park" were installed in the mezzanine; a similar sign reading "Jamaica and Rockaway" was placed in the mezzanine at 65th Street. The New York City Transit Authority would succeed in assimilating the Rockwaway Line in 1952, but it was connected to the IND Fulton Street Line at Rockaway Boulevard, rather than to the Queens Boulevard Line at 63rd Drive.

Bus connections

*Q38
*Q59
*Q60
*Q72

Gallery

External links

* [http://www.nycsubway.org/ nycsubway.org]
** [http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:339 IND Queens Boulevard Line: 63rd Drive/Rego Park]
** [http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/historyindependentsubway.html The History of the Independent Subway]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/vtrain.htm V Train]
* [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Subways%20homepage/subways.html Forgotten NY — Subways & Trains]
** [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Rockaway%20Line/rockline.html Rockaway Branch]
** [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Nowhere/nowhere.html Subway Signs to Nowhere]