61st Street – Woodside (IRT Flushing Line)

61st Street – Woodside
New York City Subway rapid transit station
7 train of R62A subway cars at the station
Station statistics
Address	61st Street & Roosevelt Avenue Queens, NY 11377
Borough	Queens
Locale	Woodside
Coordinates
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Flushing Line
Services	7  (all times) <7> (rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: Q32 MTA Bus: Q18, Q53, Q70 LIRR: City Terminal Zone and Port Washington Branch (at Woodside)
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	April 21, 1917 (1917-04-21)
Accessible
Former/other names	Woodside – 61st Street
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	5,356,621  0.5%
Rank	86 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	69th Street (local): 7  Junction Boulevard (express): <7>
Next south	52nd Street (local): 7  Queensboro Plaza (express): <7>
Next north	74th Street – Broadway (local): 7  Junction Boulevard (express): <7>
Next south	Court Square: 7  <7>
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

61st Street – Woodside (announced as Woodside – 61st Street on some trains) is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway located at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. It is served by the 7 train, with additional peak-direction <7> service during rush hours.

History

61st Street – Woodside opened on April 21, 1917, as part of an extension of the IRT Flushing Line to 103rd Street – Corona Plaza. The Long Island Rail Road station below the subway platforms dates to 1869.

Station layout

3F	Southbound local	← toward 34th Street – Hudson Yards (52nd Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Peak-direction express	← toward 34th Street – Hudson Yards (AM rush) (Queensboro Plaza) → toward Flushing – Main Street (PM rush) (Junction Boulevard) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Northbound local	→ toward Flushing – Main Street (69th Street) →
2F	Mezzanine	to entrances/exits, stairways to LIRR platforms, station agent, MetroCard vending machines (Elevator at NE corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street)
1F	-	LIRR platforms
G	Street Level	Entrances/Exits

Street-level access is available for both the 61st Street station and the Woodside LIRR station

This station has two island platforms and three tracks. The two outer tracks are used for the full-time 7 local service while the bidirectional center track is used for rush hour peak-direction <7> express service. There is a mezzanine located at the center, underneath the platforms, with a new ADA-accessible elevator to each platform.

Entrance and exit are provided by long stairs down to street level on the northern curb of Roosevelt Avenue at 61st Street, as well as to other nearby locations via the LIRR platforms. An ADA-compliant elevator provides access to street level at the northeast corner of 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue, while a long escalator at the southeast corner provides entrance only. The Woodside station of the Long Island Rail Road is located directly beneath the Flushing Line station; any of the three LIRR platforms can be accessed directly from the mezzanine.

Artwork includes John Cavanagh's Commuting/Community (1986), located near the stairway down to LIRR Track 4, and Dimitri Gerakaris' Woodside Continuum (1999), which forms part of the steel-grating fare-control separation.

In popular culture

This station was used for a scene in John Cassavetes's 1980 film Gloria.

External links

• nycsubway.org—IRT Flushing Line: 61st Street/Woodside
• nycsubway.org — Commuting/Community Artwork by John Cavanagh (1986)
• nycsubway.org — Woodside Continuum Artwork by Dimitri Gerakaris (1999)
• Station Reporter — 7 Train
• The Subway Nut — 61st Street – Woodside Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Woodside – 61st Street (IRT Flushing Line)
• 61st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station as seen from the LIRR platforms from Google Maps Street View