52nd Street (IRT Flushing Line)

52nd Street (also known as 52nd Street – Lincoln Avenue) is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 52nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens, it is served by the 7 train at all times.

This elevated station, opened on April 21, 1917, has two side platforms and three tracks. The center express track is used by the rush hour peak direction <7> express train. Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies with green roofs along the entire length except for a small section at the south end, which has only a windscreen on the eastbound side and a waist-high steel fence on the westbound side.

This station has two entrances. The full-time one is a wooden elevated station house beneath the tracks at the south end. It has a single staircase to each platform, waiting area that allows free transfer between directions, turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases to the street, one to either western corners of 52nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue.

The other entrance is at the station's extreme north (geographical east) end. A single canopied staircase from each platform goes down a landing outside of a now-closed elevated station house beneath the tracks. A single HEET turnstile provides entrance/exit from the station before a street stair goes down 53rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue. The Manhattan-bound staircase is at the northeast corner while the Flushing-bound one is at the southeast corner.

This is the southernmost (geographical west) station on the IRT Flushing Line that is above Roosevelt Avenue. West of this station, the line curves and becomes a concrete viaduct above Queens Boulevard until Queensboro Plaza.

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — IRT Flushing Line: 52nd Street/Lincoln Street
• Station Reporter — 7 Train
• 7 Train Rider Report Card
• 52nd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• 53rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View