Steinway Street station
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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 and F trains at night.
History
The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND),[1][2][3] and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.[1][3][4] The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million.[5] 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.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
In 2019, as part of an initiative to increase the accessibility of the New York City Subway system, the MTA announced that it would install elevators at the Steinway Street station as part of the MTA's 2020–2024 Capital Program.[12] In November 2022, the MTA announced that it would award a $965 million contract for the installation of 21 elevators across eight stations,[13] including Steinway Street.[14][15]Template:Rp A joint venture of ASTM and Halmar International would construct the elevators under a public-private partnership.[14][15]Template:Rp
Station layout
| Ground | Street level | Exit/entrance |
| Mezzanine | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent |
| Platform level | Side platform | |
| Southbound local | ← Template:Rint toward Template:Stl weekdays (Template:Stl) ← Template:Rint toward Template:Stl (36th Street) ← Template:Rint toward Template:Stl, Template:Rint toward Template:Stl late nights (36th Street) | |
| Northbound local | Template:Rint toward Template:Stl weekdays (Template:Stl) → Template:Rint toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (46th Street) → Template:Rint toward Template:Stl, Template:Rint toward Template:Stl late nights (46th Street) → | |
| Side platform | ||
This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms. The E and F trains serve the station at night,[16][17] the M train serves the station on weekdays during the day,[18] and the R train serves the station at all times except late nights.[19] The station is between 36th Street to the west and 46th Street to the east.[20]
Both platform walls have a purple tile band with a black border and mosaic name tablets reading "STEINWAY ST." in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and purple border. Small tile captions reading "STEINWAY" in white on black run below the tile band, and directional signs in the same style are present under some of the name tablets.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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 Steinway Street station were originally also used at Template:Stn, the next express station to the west, while a different tile color is used at Template:Stn, 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]
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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 side on Steinway Street near Broadway has two street stairs and has a token booth; this used to be the only full-time fare control area. This mezzanine has two small staircases to the southbound side and a single platform-wide staircase on the northbound side. The former part-time fare control area at 34th Avenue and Steinway Street—since converted to a secondary full-time fare control area—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.[25]
In 2003, the hours for this token booth were 6:10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. The entrances on this side, at the time, were only open 6:10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mondays through Fridays, 6:10 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Saturdays, and 4:20 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Sundays.[26] In 2009, the MTA proposed closing the part-time booth, which was then open 6:10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. Access to this entrance has been added through HEET access between 2003 and 2009.[27]
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External links
- nycsubway.org – IND Queens Boulevard Line: Steinway Street
- Station Reporter — R Train
- Station Reporter — M Train
- The Subway Nut — Steinway Street Pictures
- Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
- 34th Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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