65th Street station (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

For other uses, see 65th Street.

65 Street   ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
View from northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	65th Street & Broadway Queens, NY
Borough	Queens
Locale	Woodside
Coordinates	40°44′58″N73°53′50″W / 40.7494°N 73.8973°W / 40.7494; -73.8973
Division	B (IND) [1]
Line	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services	E   (late nights) ​   F   (late nights) ​   M   (weekdays during the day) ​   R   (all times except late nights)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	August 19, 1933;90 years ago (1933-08-19)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	729,908 [2]   7.6%
Rank	348 out of 423 [2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Northern Boulevard E   ​ F   ​ M   ​ R   via Queens Plaza Local Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue E   ​ F   ​ M   ​ R   toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue does not stop here
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Roosevelt Avenue to Northern Boulevard
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops weekdays during the day

The 65th Street station 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. It is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E and F trains at night. The station opened on August 19, 1933, as part of the Independent Subway System's Queens Boulevard Line.

History

The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), ^{[3] [4] [5]} and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. ^{[3] [5] [6]} The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million. ^[7] One of the proposed stations would have been located at 65th Street.

The first section of the line, west from Roosevelt Avenue to 50th Street, opened on August 19, 1933. E trains ran local to Hudson Terminal (today's World Trade Center) in Manhattan, while the GG (predecessor to current G service) ran as a shuttle service between Queens Plaza and Nassau Avenue on the IND Crosstown Line. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Station layout

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Platform level	Side platform
	Southbound local	← toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue weekdays (Northern Boulevard) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Northern Boulevard) ← toward World Trade Center late nights (Northern Boulevard) ← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue late nights (Northern Boulevard)
	Southbound express	← do not stop here
	Northbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays (Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue) → → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue) → → toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer late nights (Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue) → → toward Jamaica–179th Street late nights (Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue) →
	Side platform

Mosaic name tablet

Southeast street stair

Mezzanine level

There are four tracks and two side platforms; ^[13] the two center express tracks are used by the E and F trains at all times except late nights. ^[14] The E and F trains serve the station at night, ^{[15] [16]} the M train serves the station on weekdays during the day, ^[17] and the R train serves the station at all times except late nights. ^[18] The station is between Northern Boulevard to the west and Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue to the east. ^[19]

Signs to the northbound 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 as late as 2001. ^[20] The 1933 Manhattan-bound tile signs remain intact.

Both platforms are column-less, and their platform walls have a purple tile band with a black border, with a number of replacement tiles in different shades of violet and purple having been placed during repairs. There are also mosaic name tablets reading "65TH ST." in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and purple border. Small tile captions reading "65TH ST" in white lettering on black run below the trim line, and directional signs in the same style are present below some of the name tablets.^{[ citation needed ]} The tile band was part of a color-coded tile system used throughout the IND. ^[21] The tile colors were designed to facilitate navigation for travelers going away from Lower Manhattan. As such, the purple tiles used at the 65th Street station were originally also used at Queens Plaza, the next express station to the west, while a different tile color is used at Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue, the next express station to the east. Purple tiles are similarly used at the other local stations between Queens Plaza and Roosevelt Avenue. ^{[22] [23]}

There are girders above the platforms, which are connected to columns in the walls adjoining each platform. ^{[24] : 3} The tunnel is covered by a U-shaped trough that contains utility pipes and wires. The outer walls of this trough are composed of columns, spaced approximately every 5 feet (1.5 m) with concrete infill between them. There is a 1-inch (25 mm) gap between the tunnel wall and the platform wall, which is made of 4-inch (100 mm)-thick brick covered over by a tiled finish. The columns between the tracks are also spaced every 5 feet (1.5 m), with no infill. ^{[24] : 3}

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

Exits

The full-time mezzanine at the eastern end has three staircases to each platform and two staircases to the street, one to either eastern corner of Broadway and 65th Street. ^[25] 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. Signs at the northeast exit as well as the Manhattan-bound platforms are for Rowan Street, the former name of 65th Street. ^{[26] [27]}

References

1. "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
2. "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
3. Duffus, R.L. (September 22, 1929). "Our Great Subway Network Spreads Wider; New Plans of Board of Transportation Involve the Building of More Than One Hundred Miles of Additional Rapid Transit Routes for New York". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved August 19, 2015.
4. "Queens Subway Work Ahead of Schedule: Completion Will Lead to Big Apartrnent Building, Says William C. Speers". The New York Times. April 7, 1929. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved September 1, 2015.
5. "Queens Lauded as Best Boro By Chamber Chief". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 23, 1929. p. 40. Retrieved October 4, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
6. "New Subway Routes in Hylan Program to Cost $186,046,000" (PDF). The New York Times. March 21, 1925. p. 1.
7. "Test Trains Running In Queens Subway; Switch and Signal Equipment of New Independent Line Is Being Checked". The New York Times. December 20, 1936. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved April 26, 2016.
8. Kramer, Frederick A. (1990). Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press. ISBN   978-0-915276-50-9.
9. Raskin, Joseph B. (2013). The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System. New York, New York: Fordham University Press. doi:10.5422/fordham/9780823253692.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-82325-369-2.
10. "Two Subway Units Open At Midnight; Links in City-Owned System in Queens and Brooklyn to Have 15 Stations" (PDF). The New York Times. August 18, 1933. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved November 7, 2015.
11. "New Queens Subway Service Will Be Launched Tonight; Tunnel From Manhattan Open to Jackson Heights; Service Will Eventually Be Extended Through To Jamaica". Long Island Daily Press. Fultonhistory.com. August 18, 1933. p. 20. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
12. "New Queens Tube To Open Saturday: Brooklyn-Long Island City Link of City Line Also to Be Put in Operation". New York Evening Post . Fultonhistory.com. August 17, 1933. p. 18. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
13. Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC   49777633 – via Google Books.
14. "Late Night Subway Service" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 23, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
15. "ESubway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority . Retrieved August 26, 2023.
16. "FSubway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority . Retrieved August 26, 2023.
17. "MSubway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority . Retrieved August 26, 2023.
18. "RSubway Timetable, Effective August 28, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority . Retrieved August 26, 2023.
19. "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
20. Subway Signs to Nowhere (Forgotten New York)
21. "Tile Colors a Guide in the New Subway; Decoration Scheme Changes at Each Express Stop to Tell Riders Where They Are". The New York Times. August 22, 1932. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
22. Carlson, Jen (February 18, 2016). "Map: These Color Tiles In The Subway System Used To Mean Something". Gothamist. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
23. Gleason, Will (February 18, 2016). "The hidden meaning behind the New York subway's colored tiles". Time Out New York. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
24. "New York MPS Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)". Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006, Series: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 - 2017, Box: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: New York, ID: 05000672. National Archives.
25. "65th Street Neighborhood Map". mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. April 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
26. 65th Street; Rowan Street Mosaic (photograph). March 16, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
27. 65th Street IND Queens; Rowan & B'Way Exit.jpg (photograph). March 16, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017.

External links

• nycsubway.org – IND Queens Boulevard Line: 65th Street
• Station Reporter — R Train
• Station Reporter — M Train
• The Subway Nut — 65th Street Pictures Archived September 26, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
• 65th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View