![]() ![]() MTA is not associated with nor does it endorse this website or its content. SAS In Your Inbox: Subscribe to SAS by E-mailĭisclaimer: Subway Map © Metropolitan Transportation Authority. With the bored walls out for all to see and gaps in the blue fence providing glimpses into the unused platforms, it’s the closest straphangers can get to a station in progress. If subway work is your thing, stop by that station. BMT Centre St Subway to Brooklyn Bridge connection provision. The deep bore, as well, gives us a sense of the depths of the other SAS stations as well. Lexington Av-63rd St Upper & Lower Level. Q and F trains will stop across the platform from each other, and the platform levels at least will have a new look. ![]() Subway, that station will have a radically different look. It was never immediately evident that the northern side of that station hid another set of functional tracks, but with the arrival of Phase 1 of the Second Ave. ![]() I’d imagine a lot of riders are mystified as to what’s going on there. Gone are the dropped ceilings that hid the arch of the tube. Gone are the red faux-walls that hid the two-track platforms. With trains rumbling through a station stripped bare of its finishes, it’s quite a sight to see. I don’t often end up there and hadn’t swung by to check in on the Second Ave. On the small mezzanine the columns are painted yellow.A few days ago, I found myself in the 63rd St. Also to note for the station is that there are no columns along the platforms, just the purple trim and purple border around the name tablets. Harold Interlocking 63rd St Tunnel Approach Wakefield-241 St 7th Av Exp. It was to 63rd Street on the Forest Hills-bound platform (removed streetstair to the SW corner) and to 35th Avenuef on the Manhattan-bound platform (removed streetstair to northside of Broadway just east of where 35 Avenue arrives at an angled intersection by a small greenstreet plaza). to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd. There is evidence on each platform of a regular on platform entrance/exit that used to exist at the other end and directional signs still direct to it underneath some of the name tablets. Cottage Grove station is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Washington Park Race. This mosaic is normally covered over with a generic Forest Hills & Jamaica signs on the walls fitted over the Rockaway sign, one though was exposed when I visited in 2008 The modern Forest Hills & Jamaica sign had fallen off or was perhaps removed by a nostalgic vandal, exposing the old sign. ![]() This destination mosaic is a relic of the ambitious but never built IND Second system that was going to have a branch off the Queens Blvd line down the LIRR Rockaway Branch. Going farther towards Queens they say Jamaica and Rockaway! Yes Rockaway as in Far Rockaway. Each of the these staircases still has its original mosaics, for the Manhattan-bound platform they say Manhattan and Brooklyn. These staircases lead down to a small fare control area at the eastern end of a relatively small mezzanine that only exists on the eastern end of the station that has three staircases down to each platform, the one closest to the entrance is at the very eastern end of each platform. Here streetstairs lead down from the NE and SE corners of Broadway and 65th Street, just west of an interchange with the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The only entrance & exit that's currently open is at the extreme the eastern end of the platform at 65th Street/Rowan Street & Broadway. Queens Blvd-8 Avenue Local (Late Nights Only)< 65 StreetĦ5th Street is an usual Queens Blvd Line local Station with two side paltforms for the four track line. ![]()
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