Elmhurst Avenue is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Elmhurst Avenue and Broadway in Elmhurst, Queens, it is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the E train replaces it as the local along Queens Boulevard. The M train provides additional service here on weekdays.
This underground station, opened on December 31, 1936, has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the E train during daytime hours and the F at all times. Both platforms have a teal trim line on a black border with small "ELMHURST" signs in white lettering on a black background beneath them. They also have name tablets reading "ELMHURST AVE." in white sans serif lettering on a black background and teal border. Yellow i-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black name plates in white lettering.
This station has a full-length mezzanine above the platforms and tracks supported by yellow i-beam columns. It is separated into three sections by two chain-link fences. However, underneath the westernmost staircase of the station, there is a passageway that connects the mezzanines from each direction, allowing free transfers between directions. Each platform has seven staircases going up to the mezzanine. The token booth is at the center in the middle section outside fare control with a small turnstile bank to either outer section.
The staircases to the street are at either end of the mezzanine. On the northwest (railroad south) side, one staircase goes up to the southwest corner of 82nd Street and Broadway while another goes up to the southwest corner of Britton Avenue and Broadway. At this end, there are two exit-only turnstiles from the Forest Hills-bound side of the mezzanine and two High Entry-Exit Turnstiles from the Manhattan-bound side.
On the southeast (railroad north) side of the mezzanine, there are two staircases going up to either southern corners of 45th Avenue and Broadway and another going up to the northwest corner that is built within a store front and goes through a small underground shopping arcade. On this side, there are two exit-only turnstiles and one High Entry-Exit Turnstile from the Forest Hills-bound side and two High Entry-Exit Turnstiles from the Manhattan-bound side.
The Elmhurst station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch was about half a block to the south of this station before it closed in the 1980s.
This station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 2005 as structure number 05000672.
Between this station and Jackson Heights – Roosevelt Avenue, there are holes on the tunnel's ceiling which are the never-used tunnels coming from the Roosevelt Avenue Terminal station.
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