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IND Queens Boulevard Line

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The Queens Boulevard Line is a fully underground line of the New York City Subway, as part of the IND division. The line provides an east-west connection across Manhattan at 53rd Street and east through Queens to Jamaica. The part in Manhattan was once known as the 53rd Street Line. Except west of Queens Plaza, the line is quadruple-tracked, with express service on the inner tracks. It is also one of two lines (the IND Culver Line being the other) that has a shorter path for the express tracks than the local tracks. It is the second busiest line in the system, the busiest being the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.

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Extent and service

The following services use part or all of the Queens Boulevard Line:

	service	section of line
E	express (local late nights)	west of Briarwood (some rush hour trips use the full line)
F	local east and express west of Forest Hills	east of split east of Queens Plaza
G	local (no service rush hours or middays)	Forest Hills to Queens Plaza
R	local (no service late nights)	Forest Hills to Queens Plaza
V	local (no service late nights or weekends)	Forest Hills to Fifth Avenue

The Queens Boulevard Line begins at Jamaica-179th Street as a four-track subway under Hillside Avenue. Just after curving north under the Van Wyck Expressway, a flying junction joins the recent two-track IND Archer Avenue Line (E) to the local and express tracks. Soon after, the line turns west under Queens Boulevard.

East of Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike, another flying junction ties the eastward tracks to Jamaica Yard. The other side of the wye curves west to become a lower level of the subway just west of Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike. After passing through 75th Avenue, those tracks join the local and express tracks with another flying junction. Just west of there is Forest Hills-71st Avenue, where several services (E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾) begin on the local tracks, and E ⁽⁴⁵⁾ F service switches to the express tracks.

After a while, the subway leaves Queens Boulevard for Broadway. At the Northern Boulevard intersection, the express tracks head west on Northern Boulevard, while the local tracks take a longer route, staying on Broadway and turning south on Steinway Street to rejoin the express tracks. As the line approaches Queens Plaza, the new two-track IND 63rd Street Line (F) splits from both sets of tracks at a flying junction (providing an extra two tracks into Manhattan). The Queens Boulevard Line continues under Northern Boulevard to Queens Plaza, where tracks allow V service to switch to the express tracks. Just after Queens Plaza, the line splits into three parts at yet another flying junction. The express tracks continue on towards Manhattan, while the local tracks split two ways, with the 60th Street Tunnel Connection (R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾) turning northwest and the Crosstown Line (G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾) turning southwest. From this point on, the Queens Boulevard Line has only two tracks.

The line continues west through the 53rd Street Tunnel under the East River into Manhattan. After a station at Lexington Avenue-53rd Street, the westbound tracks rise above the eastbound tracks. A flying junction after Fifth Avenue-53rd Street ties the Queens-bound tracks into the downtown-bound local tracks of the Sixth Avenue Line (F V ⁽¹²³⁾), which begin here as a merge of these connection tracks and the IND 63rd Street Line (F). At that junction, the Sixth Avenue Line turns west under 53rd Street, just to the south of the Queens Boulevard Line. The two lines share platforms at Seventh Avenue, but no connecting tracks are present. Then the Queens Boulevard Line turns south below the Eighth Avenue Line (A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾) with separate platforms at 50th Street, and then the tracks split to join the local and express tracks of the Eighth Avenue Line north of 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal. At that station, a special unused lower platform serves a single southbound track from the Queens Boulevard Line, merging with both southbound tracks of the Eighth Avenue Line south of that station. It has been speculated that this platform and level was built to prevent the IRT from extending their Flushing Line west.

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Background

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Station listing

Station	Tracks	Services	Opened	Notes
Jamaica-179th Street	all	some E rush hours only, F always	December 11, 1950
169th Street	local	F always	April 24, 1937
Parsons Boulevard	all	some E rush hours only, F always	April 24, 1937
Sutphin Boulevard	local	F always	April 24, 1937
IND Archer Avenue Line (E always) joins
Briarwood-Van Wyck Boulevard	local	E late nights, F always	April 24, 1937
Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike	all	E always, F always	December 31, 1936
75th Avenue	local	E late nights, F always	December 31, 1936
Forest Hills-71st Avenue	all	E always, F always, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	December 31, 1936
67th Avenue	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	December 31, 1936
63rd Drive-Rego Park	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	December 31, 1936
Woodhaven Boulevard	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	December 31, 1936
Grand Avenue-Newtown	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	December 31, 1936
Elmhurst Avenue	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	December 31, 1936
Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights	all	E always, F always, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933	free transfer to Flushing Line (7)
65th Street	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
Northern Boulevard	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
46th Street	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
Steinway Street	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
36th Street	local	E late nights, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
IND 63rd Street Line (F always) splits
Queens Plaza	all	E always, G evenings, weekends and late nights, R all but late nights, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
Crosstown Line (G evenings, weekends and late nights) and 60th Street Tunnel Connection (R all but late nights) split
23rd Street-Ely Avenue	all	E always, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933	free transfer to G (Crosstown Line) free MetroCard transfer to 7 <7> ^(1a2a3b) (Flushing Line)
Lexington Avenue-53rd Street	all	E always, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933	free transfer to 4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ (Lexington Avenue Line)
Fifth Avenue-53rd Street	all	E always, V all but weekends and late nights	August 19, 1933
connection to Sixth Avenue Line (V all but weekends and late nights) splits
Seventh Avenue	all	E always	August 19, 1933	free transfer to B ^(123a) D (Sixth Avenue Line)
50th Street	all	E always	August 19, 1933	free transfer to A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ (Eighth Avenue Line)
merges with Eighth Avenue Line (A always, C all but late nights)

edit (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Template:NYCS_lines&action=edit) New York City Subway Lines
IRT	West side trunk: Broadway-7 Av - Lenox Av - White Plains Rd - Dyre Av - Brooklyn Branch East side trunk: Lexington Av - Jerome Av - White Plains Rd - Dyre Av - Pelham Brooklyn/Queens/other: Eastern Pkwy - Nostrand Av - Flushing - 42 St Shuttle Former: 2 Av - 3 Av - 6 Av - 9 Av
BMT	Manhattan trunk: Broadway - Astoria - Manhattan Bridge Nassau Street trunk: Nassau St - Jamaica - Archer Av - Myrtle Av West Brooklyn trunks: 4th Av - Brighton - Culver - Sea Beach - West End Other: Canarsie - Franklin Av Shuttle - 63 St Former: Brooklyn Bridge - 3 Av - 5 Av - Fulton St - Lexington Av
IND	Bronx/Manhattan trunks: 6 Av - 8 Av - Concourse Brooklyn/Queens: Queens Blvd - Archer Av - 63 St - Fulton St - Culver - Rockaway - Crosstown Former: World's Fair
Connections	Chrystie St - 60 St