82nd Street–Jackson Heights station

New York City Subway station in Queens

New York City Subway station in Queens, New York

82 Street–Jackson Heights

New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
Address| 82nd Street & Roosevelt Avenue
Queens, NY 11372
Borough| Queens
Locale| Jackson Heights
Coordinates| 40°44′51.47″N 73°53′1.78″W﻿ / ﻿40.7476306°N 73.8838278°W﻿ / 40.7476306; -73.8838278
Division| A (IRT)[1]
Line|  IRT Flushing Line
Services|  7 (all times)
Transit|

* NYCT Bus: Q32
* MTA Bus: Q29, Q33

Structure| Elevated
Platforms| 2 side platforms
Tracks| 3
Other information
Opened| April 21, 1917; 107 years ago (1917-04-21)
Opposite-
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transfer| Yes
Former/other names| 25th Street[2]
25th Street (Jackson Heights)[3]
Traffic
2022| 3,751,240[5] 17.9%
Rank| 67 out of 423[5]
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Local  |  | 90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue

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does not stop here
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The 82nd Street–Jackson Heights station (formerly known as 25th Street (Jackson Heights) station) is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 82nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens.[6] It is served by the 7 train at all times.[7] The Manhattan-bound track is being upgraded and is not in service.

## History[edit]

### Early history[edit]

The 1913 Dual Contracts called for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT; later Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT) to build new lines in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Queens did not receive many new IRT and BRT lines compared to Brooklyn and the Bronx, since the city's Public Service Commission (PSC) wanted to alleviate subway crowding in the other two boroughs first before building in Queens, which was relatively undeveloped. The IRT Flushing Line was to be one of two Dual Contracts lines in the borough, along with the Astoria Line; it would connect Flushing and Long Island City, two of Queens' oldest settlements, to Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel. When the majority of the line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and Roosevelt Avenue had not been constructed.[8]: 47 Community leaders advocated for more Dual Contracts lines to be built in Queens to allow development there.[9]

The Flushing Line was opened from Queensboro Plaza to Alburtis Avenue (now 103rd Street–Corona Plaza) on April 21, 1917, with a local station at what is now 82nd Street.[10] The current 82nd Street station was known as "25th Street" from its opening until March 10, 1921, when it was renamed "25th Street (Jackson Heights)".[2] The station was again renamed on April 2, 1925, to "82nd Street–Jackson Heights".[3][11]

### Later years[edit]

The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.[12][13] The IRT routes were given numbered designations in 1948 with the introduction of "R-type" rolling stock, which contained rollsigns with numbered designations for each service.[14] The route from Times Square to Flushing became known as the 7.[15] On October 17, 1949, the joint BMT/IRT operation of the Flushing Line ended, and the line became the responsibility of the IRT.[16] After the end of BMT/IRT dual service, the New York City Board of Transportation announced that the Flushing Line platforms would be lengthened to 11 IRT car lengths; the platforms were only able to fit nine 51-foot-long IRT cars beforehand.[17][18] The platforms at the station were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains.[19] However, nine-car trains continued to run on the 7 route until 1962, when they were extended to ten cars.[20] With the opening of the 1964 New York World's Fair, trains were lengthened to eleven cars.[21][22]

In 1981, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.[23] A renovation of the 82nd Street station was funded as part of the MTA's 1980–1984 capital plan.[24] The MTA received a $106 million grant from the Urban Mass Transit Administration in October 1983; most of the grant would fund the renovation of eleven stations,[25][26] including 82nd Street.[25]

As part of the 2015–2019 Capital Program, the MTA announced plans to renovate the 52nd, 61st, 69th, 82nd, 103rd and 111th Streets stations, a project that had been delayed for several years. Conditions at these stations were reported to be among the worst of all stations in the subway system.[27] The Manhattan-bound platform at the 82nd Street–Jackson Heights station will be closed for renovation from May 15, 2023 through spring 2024, and then the Flushing-bound platform at this station will be closed for renovation from in 2024.[28][29]

## Station layout[edit]

Platform level

Side platform
Southbound local | ←  does not stop here (74th Street–Broadway)
Peak-direction express | ←  AM rush does not stop here
← PM rush/evenings does not stop here →
Northbound local | → toward Flushing–Main Street (90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue) →
Side platform
Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Ground | Street level  | Entrances/exits

This elevated station has three tracks and two side platforms.[30] The center track is used by the peak direction rush hour <7> express service.[7] Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies supported by green frames and columns in the center and black waist-high steel fences at either ends.[31] The station signs are in the standard black name plate in white lettering.[32] Each platform has a large "82" sign between the two staircases to the mezzanine below.[33]

### Exits[edit]

Under 82nd Street station in the mid-to-late-1980s. Note the staircase on the corner of the intersection with Roosevelt Avenue.

This station's one entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks. It is built of wood and bricks and has a concrete flooring. It has three staircases from all corners of 82nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue except the southeast one and a token booth in the center.[34] Two turnstile banks at either ends lead to a waiting area/crossunder and one staircase to each platform at the center.[35]

## References[edit]

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. ^ a b "Changes Station Name" (PDF). The Evening Telegram. March 11, 1921. p. 11. Retrieved July 3, 2018 - via Fultonhistory.com.
3. ^ a b "New Subway Station Name" (PDF). The New York Telegram and Evening Mail. April 3, 1925. p. 7. Retrieved July 3, 2018 - via Fultonhistory.com.
4. ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2017–2022)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
5. ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2017–2022)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
6. ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Corona" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
7. ^ a b "7 Subway Timetable, Effective June 26, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
8. ^ 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.
9. ^ "Move for Rapid Transit" (PDF). Newtown Register. December 2, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved September 30, 2017 - via Fultonhistory.com.
10. ^ "Transit Service on Corona Extension of Dual Subway System Opened to the Public". The New York Times. April 22, 1917. p. RE1. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
11. ^ "Hearing on Change of "L" Station Name" (PDF). The Daily Star. February 20, 1925. p. 2. Retrieved July 3, 2018 - via Fultonhistory.com.
12. ^ "City Transit Unity Is Now a Reality; Title to I.R.T. Lines Passes to Municipality, Ending 19-Year Campaign". The New York Times. June 13, 1940. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
13. ^ "Transit Unification Completed As City Takes Over I. R. T. Lines: Systems Come Under Single Control After Efforts Begun in 1921; Mayor Is Jubilant at City Hall Ceremony Recalling 1904 Celebration". New York Herald Tribune. June 13, 1940. p. 25\. ProQuest 1248134780.
14. ^ Brown, Nicole (May 17, 2019). "How did the MTA subway lines get their letter or number? NYCurious". amNewYork. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
15. ^ Friedlander, Alex; Lonto, Arthur; Raudenbush, Henry (April 1960). "A Summary of Services on the IRT Division, NYCTA" (PDF). New York Division Bulletin. 3 (1). Electric Railroaders' Association: 2–3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
16. ^ "Direct Subway Runs To Flushing, Astoria" (PDF). The New York Times. October 15, 1949. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
17. ^ Bennett, Charles G. (November 20, 1949). "Transit Platforms On Lines In Queens To Be Lengthened; $3,850,000 Program Outlined for Next Year to Care for Borough's Rapid Growth New Links Are To Be Built 400 More Buses to Roll Also — Bulk of Work to Be on Corona-Flushing Route Transit Program In Queens Outlined". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
18. ^ "37 Platforms On Subways To Be Lengthened: All Stations of B. M. T. and I.R.T.in Queens Included in $5,000,000 Program". New York Herald Tribune. November 20, 1949. p. 32\. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1325174459.
19. ^ Minutes and Proceedings of the New York City Transit Authority. New York City Transit Authority. 1955. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
20. ^ "R17s to the Flushing Line". New York Division Bulletin. 5 (6). Electric Railroaders' Association: M-8. December 1962 - via Issu.
21. ^ "TA to Show Fair Train". Long Island Star – Journal. August 31, 1963. Retrieved August 30, 2016 - via Fulton History.
22. ^ "A First-class Rapid Ride". Railway Age. Vol. 156, no. 21\. June 1, 1964. p. 22\. ProQuest 895766286.
23. ^ Gargan, Edward A. (June 11, 1981). "AGENCY LISTS ITS 69 MOST DETERIORATED SUBWAY STATIONS". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
24. ^ Goldman, Ari L. (April 28, 1983). "M.T.A. Making Major Addition to Capital Plan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
25. ^ a b Moses, Charles T. (October 3, 1983). "TA Gets Funds to Fix Subways". Newsday. p. 3\. ISSN 2574-5298. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
26. ^ Gargan, Edward A. (October 3, 1983). "City Speeding Its Subway Repairs". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 28, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
27. ^ Murray, Christian (November 19, 2019). "MTA To Overhaul Six Stations on the 7 Line, Currently in Design Phase". Sunnyside Post. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
28. ^ "MTA Announces Service Changes on 7 Line Beginning May 12". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. April 21, 2023. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
29. ^ "Improving the 7 Line". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 9, 2023. Archived from the original on March 25, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
30. ^ Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 - via Google Books.
31. ^ Cox, Jeremiah (June 19, 2011). "Walking down the platform". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
32. ^ Cox, Jeremiah (June 19, 2011). "An 82 St-Jackson Heights platform sign above little leaning benches". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
33. ^ Cox, Jeremiah (June 19, 2011). "Large metal 82s are on each platform between the two staircases". subwaynut.com. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
34. ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Corona" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
35. ^ Wong, Kevin (February 22, 2014). "82nd Street–Jackson Heights Token Booth". nycsubway.org. Retrieved March 7, 2018.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 82nd Street – Jackson Heights (IRT Flushing Line).

* nycsubway.org – IRT Flushing Line: 82nd Street/Jackson Heights
* Station Reporter – 7 Train
* The Subway Nut – 82nd Street–Jackson Heights Pictures Archived June 15, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
* 82nd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
* Platforms from Google Maps Street View

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