69th Street (Flushing Line, Ai-ar-Ti)

69th Street ( Eng. 69th Street ) is the New York subway station located on the Flushing line, Ai-arti . The station is located in Woodside, Queens , at the intersection of 69th Street and Roosevelt Avenue . The station is served by a single route - 7 , working around the clock.

69th Street 69th Street Line Flushing, Ai-ar-Ti
New york subway
Platform layout
opening date	April 21, 1917
Former names	69th Street - Fisk Avenue ( English 69th Street - Fisk Avenue )
Area	Queens
County	Woodside
Type of	overpass
Number of platforms	2
Type of platforms	side
Exit to the streets	69th Street, Roosevelt Avenue
Ground transportation	Q32, Q47 (to the airport La Guardia )
Station code

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The station has a flyover, and was opened on April 21, 1917 as part of the third line of the Flushing line, Ai-arti . It is located on its three-track section and consists of two side platforms serving only external local routes. The central track is not equipped with a platform, which excludes the possibility of stopping trains at the station that follow it. Now this central route is used by express <7> , which operates during peak hours.

The central part of each platform is equipped with a canopy, which is supported by green columns and a high beige solid fence. A lighting system is mounted in the canopy, and on the columns and on the wall are standard signs with the name of the station: a white inscription on a black background. At the ends of the platforms there are black lampposts, and the platforms themselves are fenced with a low black fence. From the eastern end of the station there is a closed staircase to the office building under the tracks.

Previously, the original name of the station was more common: 69th Street - Fisk Avenue ( 69th Street - Fisk Avenue ). Now it is still present on station signs, however, in the official metro schemes, the second part of the name is omitted.

Under the platform platforms in its central part there is a typical flyover mezzanine - an analog of the turnstile hall for underground stations: a special flyover room, which houses ticket offices and a turnstile pavilion. Two stairs go from the mezzanine to each platform, the location of the turnstiles allows the passenger, if necessary, to make the transition between platforms of opposite directions. Two stairs lead to the city from the mezzanine: to the opposite corners (southwest and northeast) of the intersection of 69th Street from Roosevelt Avenue .

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway runs east of the station. There were congresses to the west of the station, dismantled for unprofitability in 2008 .

Until 1949, this part of the Flushing line (Ai-ar-ti) was used by two companies - Ai-ar-ti ( Eng. IRT ) and B-em-ti ( Eng. BMT ), along with stations of the Astoria (B-em- ty) . For some time, the station platforms were even divided into two parts, each of which served the trains of only one company. A similar mode of operation was characteristic of all stations of "dual use".