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Queens

Queensboro Plaza

The gateway that gave Queens its subway.

Queensboro Plaza rose from an empty field.

Developers built neighborhoods around the tracks. Transit helped shape the Queens we know today.

Transit helped shape the Queens we know today.

Source: Vanshnookenraggen, Post Navigation.Lynch, Andrew. "Post Navigation." Vanshnookenraggen, 28 Nov. 2023, www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2023/11/the-last-train-to-jamaica-how-nyc-almost-replaced-its-els/.

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This station was once twice as large.

Half was demolished in the 1940s to make room for street traffic. Today's platform is just a portion of the original.

Today's platform is just a portion of the original.

Source: Vanshnookenraggen, Post Navigation.Lynch, Andrew. "Post Navigation." Vanshnookenraggen, 28 Nov. 2023, www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2023/11/the-last-train-to-jamaica-how-nyc-almost-replaced-its-els/.

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472 stations. Untold stories.

This is the only station where a numbered train and lettered trains share the same platform.

It happens here because this spot once marked the meeting point of two competing subway companies—one built trains a little narrower, the other a little wider.

The station was engineered with separate tracks side-by-side so riders could switch between the two in a single step.

Source: Vanshnookenraggen, NYC_FULL_TRACKMAP.PDF.Lynch, Andrew. "NYC_FULL_TRACKMAP.PDF." Vanshnookenraggen, www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/docs/NYC_full_trackmap.pdf. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

Standing on History

472 stations. Untold stories.

Before the Queens Boulevard line, every train into Queens came through here.

It was the borough's only subway link to the city. Queensboro Plaza once funneled thousands into Manhattan.

For a time, an entire borough's commute depended on a single stop.

Source: New York Times Machine, City's Growth Discounted in Plans for Adding 830 Miles of Track ont..."City's Growth Discounted in Plans for Adding 830 Miles of Track onto Rapid Transit Systems." New York Times Machine, New York Times, 3 Oct. 1920, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/10/03/109800180.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0.

Standing on History

472 stations. Untold stories.

In the 90s sitcom Seinfeld, Kramer tries, and fails, to grab a $3 gyro between train doors.

The real joke? The episode shows the station underground, though it's really elevated. Riding through, you can spot the view TV left out.

Riding through, you can spot the view TV left out.

Source: YouTube, Elaine Takes Frank's TV Guide On The Subway | The Cigar Store India..."Elaine Takes Frank's TV Guide On The Subway | The Cigar Store Indian | Seinfeld." YouTube, YouTube, 12 Apr. 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDmXuBAC0so.

Standing on History

472 stations. Untold stories.

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