Woodhaven Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Woodhaven Boulevard

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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 = December 31, 1936
north_station = 63rd Drive–Rego Park
north_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
north_service = Queens local
south_station = Grand Avenue–Newtown
south_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
south_service = Queens local

Woodhaven Boulevard (sometimes called Woodhaven Boulevard–Slattery Plaza) is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. The "Slattery Plaza" label is now out of date. Slattery Plaza is the old name of the area where four main Queens thoroughfares (Eliot Avenue and Horace Harding, Woodhaven, and Queens Boulevards) met. The construction of the Long Island Expressway along the Horace Harding corridor effectively destroyed Slattery Plaza.

There were plans to convert this station into an express stop once the line from lower Roosevelt Avenue Terminal station and the Rockaway–Winfeld Spur opened. A close observation on the outside of both ends of this station does reveal that the tunnel wall extends outward to allow space for an island platform. A major system expansion was never built so this is still a local station.

The station was renovated in the 1990s, but retained the original "Woodhaven Blvd–Slattery Plaza" name tablet and "Horace Harding Blvd" directional signs below them. The Queens Center Mall first opened in 1972, but the name conversion on subway maps was not in use until the late 1980s. There is no direct indoor access to the Mall's entrance across 59th Avenue from the full length mezzanine. This mezzanine allows crossover from any of the station's four staircases from each platform (total of eight staircases). The full time side at the west end of the mezzanine has three street stairs. One leads to north side of Queens Boulevard and 59th Avenue, the closest to the mall. The other two staircases are through a semi long passageway to the south side of Queens Boulevard and both sides of Woodhaven Boulevard and act as a cross-pedestrian underpass outside of fare control. Had the Winfield spur been built, this passageway would have allowed a free transfer between the two lines. The part time side at Horace Harding Blvd has a former booth and one street stair. Since the construction of the Long Island Expressway in the mid-1950s, the station entrance at street level appears to be "orphaned," out of character with the rest of the area since there is nothing for 300 feet in any direction and abuts an expressway exit ramp.

The 1996 artwork here is called "In Memory of The Lost Battalion" by Pablo Tauler. It uses nine support beams in the station's mezzanine to create different materials, including stainless steel, to honor the soldiers who served in the 77th Infantry Division during World War I.

On both sides of this station, there are bellmouths made for the Rockaway/Winfeld Spur.

Bus connections

*Q11
*Q29
*Q38
*Q53
*Q59
*Q88

Gallery

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:3063|IND Queens Boulevard Line|Woodhaven Boulevard/Queens Mall
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]