Steinway Street station

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Steinway Street
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New York City Subway rapid transit station
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34th Avenue exit stairs on northbound platform
Station statistics
Address Steinway Street & Broadway
Queens, NY 11103
Borough Queens
Locale Astoria
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Division B (IND)
Line IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services       E late nights (late nights)
      M weekdays until 11 p.m. (weekdays until 11 p.m.)
      R all hours except late nights (all hours except late nights)
Transit connections Bus transport MTA Bus: Q66, Q101, Q104
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened August 19, 1933; 91 years ago (1933-08-19)
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Wireless service Wi-Fi[1][2]
Traffic
Passengers (2018) 5,075,623[3]Increase 7.2%
Rank 89
Station succession
Next north 46th Street: E late nights M weekdays until 11 p.m. R all hours except late nights
Next south 36th Street: E late nights M weekdays until 11 p.m. R all hours except late nights

The Steinway Street station is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located under Steinway Street between Broadway and 34th Avenue, it is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E train at night.

History

The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND),[4][5][6] and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.[4][6][7] The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million.[8] One of the proposed stations would have been located at Steinway 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.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

In 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.[15]

Station layout

G Street level Exit/entrance
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
P
Platform level
Side platform
Southbound local NYCS-bull-trans-M.svg toward Metropolitan Avenue weekdays (36th Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg toward 95th Street (36th Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-E.svg toward World Trade Center late nights (36th Street)
Northbound local NYCS-bull-trans-M.svg toward 71st Avenue weekdays (46th Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg toward 71st Avenue (46th Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-E.svg toward Jamaica Center late nights (46th Street)
Side platform

This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms. Both platform walls have a Grape trim line with a black border and mosaic name tablets reading "STEINWAY ST." in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and Grape border. Small tile captions reading "STEINWAY" in white on black run below the trim line, and directional signs in the same style are present under some of the name tablets. Royal purple I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.

South of this station, the express tracks rejoin the local tracks and the line becomes four tracks again.

Exits

There are two separate mezzanines, one at each end of the station, and crossover is allowed on both of them. The full-time side on Steinway Street near Broadway has two street stairs. This side has two small staircases to the southbound side and a single platform-wide staircase on the northbound side. The part-time side at 34th Avenue and Steinway Street currently has no booth (it had been completely dismantled for asbestos abatement), and is HEET turnstile access at all times. This side has two stairs to the street to the northeast and southwest corners, and one to each platform.[16]

References

  1. NYC Subway Wireless
  2. More Subway Stations in Manhattan, Bronx in Line to Get Online, mta.info (March 25, 2015). "The first two phases included stations in Midtown Manhattan and all underground stations in Queens with the exception of the 7 Main St terminal."
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  6. New York Times, New Subway Routes in Hylan Program to Cost $186,046,000, March 21, 1925, page 1
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External links

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