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It is served by the 7 train, with additional peak-direction  service during rush hours.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Early history[edit]Later years[edit]Station layout[edit]Exits[edit]In popular culture[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]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\u2013Manhattan 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.[4]:\u200a47\u200a Community leaders advocated for more Dual Contracts lines to be built in Queens to allow development there.[5]61st Street\u2013Woodside opened on April 21, 1917 as Woodside, as part of an extension of the IRT Flushing Line to Alburtis Avenue (now 103rd Street\u2013Corona Plaza). The Long Island Rail Road station predates the station, as it originally opened in 1869.On February 29, 1928, five petitions signed with 600 names were sent to the New York State Transit Commission (NYSTC), requesting that an escalator be constructed at the station to the southeastern corner of 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue. On July 25, the NYSTC ordered the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) to install a double-width escalator from the mezzanine to that corner, similar to one at the Third Avenue entrance at Grand Central station on the same line.[6][7] The new escalator was placed into service on December 27, 1930.[8]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Later years[edit]The city government took over the IRT’s operations on June 12, 1940.[9][10] 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.[11] The route from Times Square to Flushing became known as the 7.[12] On October 17, 1949, the joint BMT\/IRT operation of the Flushing Line ended, and the line became the responsibility of the IRT.[13] 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.[14][15] The platforms at the station were extended in 1955\u20131956 to accommodate 11-car trains.[16] However, nine-car trains continued to run on the 7 route until 1962, when they were extended to ten cars.[17] With the opening of the 1964 New York World’s Fair, trains were lengthened to eleven cars.[18][19]In 1981, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.[20]As part of the 2015\u20132019 Capital Program, the MTA would renovate the 52nd, 61st, 69th, 82nd, 103rd and 111th Streets stations, a project that has been delayed for several years but is slated to begin in mid-2020. Conditions at these stations were among the worst of all stations in the subway system.[21]Station layout[edit]This station has two island platforms and three tracks. The two outer tracks are used for the full-time 7 local service while the bidirectional center track is used for rush hour peak-direction  express service.[22] There is a mezzanine located at the center, underneath the platforms, with an ADA-accessible elevator to each platform, as well as another to each Long Island Rail Road platform. The elevator from the mezzanine to the street stops at the LIRR’s eastbound Main Line platform.The station is about 48 feet (15\u00a0m) above street level, and is located above a natural depression in ground level along Roosevelt Avenue.[6]:\u200a549\u200aArtwork includes John Cavanagh’s Commuting\/Community (1986), located near the stairway down to LIRR Track 4, and Dimitri Gerakaris’ Woodside Continuum (1999), which forms part of the steel-grating fare-control separation.Exits[edit]Entrance and exit are provided by long stairs down to street level on the northern curb of Roosevelt Avenue at 61st Street, as well as to other nearby locations via the LIRR platforms. An ADA-compliant elevator provides access to street level at the northeast corner of 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue, while a long escalator at the southeast corner provides entrance only. The Woodside station of the Long Island Rail Road is located directly beneath the Flushing Line station; any of the three LIRR platforms can be accessed directly from the mezzanine.In popular culture[edit]This station was used for a scene in John Cassavetes’s 1980 film Gloria. The station was depicted in a scene in the Coen brothers’ 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis, though actual filming occurred elsewhere. A restaurant nearby the station was used in Law & Order: Organized Crime several times, the station was seen several times.[citation needed]References[edit]^ “Glossary”. Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol.\u00a01. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp.\u00a01\u20132. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.^ “Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014\u20132019”. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.^ a b “Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014\u20132019”. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.^ 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\u00a0978-0-82325-369-2.^ “Move for Rapid Transit” (PDF). Newtown Register. December 2, 1909. p.\u00a01. Retrieved September 30, 2017 \u2013 via Fultonhistory.com.^ a b Proceedings of the New York State Transit Commission. New York State Transit Commission. 1928. pp.\u00a0164, 549\u2013550.^ The City Record (PDF). New York City. May 24, 1929. p.\u00a04523.^ New York (State). Transit Commission. (1930). Tenth Annual Report, 1930. Columbia University Libraries. Albany, N.Y.\u00a0: J.B. Lyon Co.^ “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\u00a00362-4331. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.^ “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.\u00a025. ProQuest\u00a01248134780.^ 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.^ Friedlander, Alex; Lonto, Arthur; Raudenbush, Henry (April 1960). “A Summary of Services on the IRT Division, NYCTA” (PDF). New York Division Bulletin. Electric Railroaders’ Association. 3 (1): 2\u20133. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021.^ “Direct Subway Runs To Flushing, Astoria” (PDF). The New York Times. October 15, 1949. ISSN\u00a00362-4331. Retrieved October 7, 2017.^ 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 \u2014 Bulk of Work to Be on Corona-Flushing Route Transit Program In Queens Outlined”. The New York Times. ISSN\u00a00362-4331. Retrieved April 29, 2018.^ “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.\u00a032. ISSN\u00a01941-0646. ProQuest\u00a01325174459.^ 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.^ “R17s to the Flushing Line”. New York Division Bulletin. Electric Railroaders’ Association. 5 (6): M-8. December 1962 \u2013 via Issu.^ “TA to Show Fair Train”. Long Island Star \u2013 Journal. August 31, 1963. Retrieved August 30, 2016 \u2013 via Fulton History.^ “A First-class Rapid Ride”. Railway Age. Vol.\u00a0156, no.\u00a021. June 1, 1964. p.\u00a022. ProQuest\u00a0895766286.^ Gargan, Edward A. (June 11, 1981). “AGENCY LISTS ITS 69 MOST DETERIORATED SUBWAY STATIONS”. The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2016.^ Murray, Christian (November 19, 2019). “MTA To Overhaul Six Stations on the 7 Line, Currently in Design Phase”. Sunnyside Post. Retrieved April 29, 2020.^ Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd\u00a0ed.). Dougherty. 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