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The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division . The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, had constructed the section of the line from Flushing , Queens , to Times Square , Manhattan between ...
The 7 Flushing Local and <7> Flushing Express [3] are two rapid transit services in the A Division of the New York City Subway, providing local and express services along the full length of the IRT Flushing Line. Their route emblems, or "bullets", are colored purple, since they serve the Flushing Line. [4]
The IRT Flushing Line was to be one of two Dual Contracts lines in the borough, and it would connect Flushing and Long Island City, two of Queens's oldest settlements, to Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel. When the majority of line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and Roosevelt Avenue had not been ...
The Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street station is a New York City Subway station complex served by the IRT Flushing Line and the IND Queens Boulevard Line.Located at the triangle of 74th Street, Broadway, and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, it is served by the 7, E, and F trains at all times; the R train at all times except late nights; the M train on weekdays during ...
Flushing Local [8] IRT Flushing Line: Flushing–Main Street: 34th Street–Hudson Yards: Operates 24 hours a day Makes all stops along the full route Flushing Express [8] IRT Flushing Line: Flushing–Main Street: 34th Street–Hudson Yards: Operates weekday rush hours and early evenings in the peak direction only
At 41st Street and Sixth Avenue, the IRT Flushing Line runs west–east and crosses underneath the IND Sixth Avenue Line, which runs north–south. [64] [69] The IRT Flushing Line station is an express stop with two tracks and one island platform, while the IND Sixth Avenue Line station is an express stop with four tracks and two island platforms.
IRT Dyre Avenue Line (5 train) – entire line; IRT Pelham Line (6 and <6> trains) – entire line; IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7> trains) – from 33rd Street–Rawson Street to Flushing–Main Street; IRT New Lots Line (2, 3, 4, and 5 trains) at Junius Street – center track is not usable in revenue service
The Flushing Line, its sole line in Queens, is entirely elevated except for a short portion approaching its East River tunnel and its terminal at Flushing–Main Street (the whole Manhattan portion of the line is underground). The Flushing Line has had no track connection to the rest of the IRT since 1942, when service on the Second Avenue El ...