Parsons Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
Parsons Boulevard is an express station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Parsons Boulevard and Hillside Avenue in Queens, it is served by F train at all times. Limited rush hour E service also stops here due to capacity constraints at its usual terminal of Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer.
This underground station, opened on April 24, 1937, has four tracks and two island platforms. F trains stop on the outer local tracks while E trains stop on the center express ones. The platform and mezzanine columns are I-beams painted maroon-red and the wall tiles along the tracks have an orange trim-line with a black border and name tiles underneath them consisting of "PARSONS" in white lettering on a black background.
Above the platforms is a full-length mezzanine that connects the two station entrances at either ends. It has more staircases to the Jamaica-bound platform than the Manhattan-bound one due to a crew office built on the Manhattan-bound side.
The full-time entrance is at the north end of the station. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs leading to either southern corners of Parsons Boulevard and Hillside Avenue. The entrance at the south end is unstaffed, containing HEET turnstiles and a single street stair to the southeast corner of 153rd Street and Hillside Avenue. Its booth was removed in 2003.
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