69th Street (IRT Flushing Line)

69th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
South side
Station statistics
Address	69th Street & Roosevelt Avenue Queens, NY 11377
Borough	Queens
Locale	Woodside
Coordinates	40°44′46.53″N 73°53′48.66″W / 40.7462583°N 73.8968500°W / 40.7462583; -73.8968500Coordinates: 40°44′46.53″N 73°53′48.66″W / 40.7462583°N 73.8968500°W / 40.7462583; -73.8968500
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Flushing Line
Services	7  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: Q32, Q47
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	April 21, 1917 (1917-04-21)
Former/other names	69th Street – Fisk Avenue
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,685,222[1]  0.8%
Rank	280 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	74th Street – Broadway: 7
Next south	61st Street – Woodside: 7
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

69th Street (also known as 69th Street – Fisk Avenue) is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 69th Street and Roosevelt Avenue in the Woodside, Queens, it is served by the 7 train at all times.

Station layout

P Platform level
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound local	← toward 34th Street – Hudson Yards (61st Street – Woodside)
	Peak-direction express	← does not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ toward Flushing – Main Street (74th Street – Broadway) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
M	Mezzanine	to entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
G	Street Level	Entrances/Exits

This elevated station opened on April 21, 1917, and has three tracks and two side platforms. The center track is used by the peak direction express service during rush hours. The extreme north (geographical east) end of the northbound platform is a closed work stair leading to a storage area below the tracks.

Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies with green support frames and columns in the center and black, waist-high, steel fences at either ends. Black lampposts are at the un-canopied sections at regular intervals and the station signs are in the standard black name plate in white lettering.

This station has one elevated station house beneath the center of the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from the street, one at the northeast corner of 69th Street and Roosevelt Avenue and the other at the southwest corner, go up to the mezzanine, where there is a token booth at the center and a turnstile bank at either ends. Both turnstile banks lead to a waiting area/crossunder and have one staircase going up to each platform.

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway passes under the IRT Flushing Line just east of the station. There were formerly crossovers and switches between this station and 61st Street – Woodside. They were removed in 2008 and replaced with crossovers on either side of 74th Street – Broadway. The new crossovers are set up in such a way that trains going in either direction on the express track can stop at 74th Street.

Under the elevated structure of the Flushing Line directly east of the station and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a track of the New York Connecting Railroad, which is used for freight by CSX.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 69th Street (IRT Flushing Line).

• nycsubway.org—IRT Flushing Line: 69th Street/Fisk Avenue
• Station Reporter — 7 Train
• The Subway Nut — 69th Street Pictures
• 69th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View