Woodside–61st Street (IRT Flushing Line)

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Coordinates: 40°44′44.19″N, 73°54′10.68″W


Woodside–61st Street
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IRT Flushing Line
Services	7 (all times) <7>(weekdays until 10:00 p.m., peak direction)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Other
Borough	Queens
Opened	April 21, 1917
Accessible
Connection	LIRR at Woodside
Next north	69th Street (local): 7 Junction Boulevard (express): <7>
Next south	52nd Street (local): 7 Queensboro Plaza (express): <7>

Woodside–61st Street is an elevated station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens, it is served by the 7 at all times and by supplemental peak-direction <7> service on weekdays.

This express station has two island platforms and three tracks–two tracks for local 7 service and a bidirectional center track for weekday peak-direction express service. There is a mezzanine located at the center, underneath the platforms, with a new ADA-compliant elevator to each platform.

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.

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.

Artwork 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.