75th Street – Elderts Lane (BMT Jamaica Line)

75th Street – Elderts Lane (formerly 75th Street and originally Elderts Lane) is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 75th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, Queens, it is served by the Z train during rush hours in peak direction and by the J train at all other times.

This elevated station, opened on June 11, 1917, has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track. It is located above Elderts Lane (though station signage refers to it as "Elderts Lane." The New York City GIS portal labels the station as "75th St–Eldert Ln"), which is where the border of Brooklyn and Queens is. As a result, the east (railroad north) end of the station is in Queens while the west (railroad south) end is in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.

Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies supported by green frames and support columns along their entire lengths except for a small section at the south end. Here, they have black steel waist high fences with lampposts at regular intervals.

This station has one elevated station house beneath the tracks. A single staircase from the north end of each platform goes down to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to either western corners of 75th Street and Jamaica Avenue.

The 1990 artwork here is called Five Points of Observation by Kathleen McCarthy. It affords a view of the street from the platforms and resembles a face when seen from the street. This artwork is also located in four other stations on this line.

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — BMT Jamaica Line: 75th Street–Elderts
• Station Reporter — J train
• The Subway Nut — 75th Street – Elderts Lane Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — 75th Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
• 75th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View