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Junction Boulevard, originally Junction Avenue, is a two-mile north-south route that runs through the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Corona, Elmhurst, and Rego Park in Queens, New York City, United States. It continues as 94th Street in East Elmhurst and also serves LaGuardia Airport.
The Junction Boulevard station (originally Junction Avenue station) [3] is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Junction Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens. [4] It is served by the 7 train at all times and by rush hour peak-direction <7> express service. [5]
The yard connects to the Queens Boulevard Line at a three-way flying junction just geographically north of the Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike station. The yard is at surface level, and the four-track approach includes a bridge over the Grand Central Parkway ; though the Queens Boulevard Line is underground, the yard lies at a lower elevation than ...
The former southern terminus of the streetcar line, at Junction Boulevard and Corona Avenue. Originally a branch of the Grand Street and Flushing–Ridgewood lines, the Junction Boulevard line, [5] also known as the North Beach line [6] began at the intersection of Corona Avenue and Junction Avenue (later Junction Boulevard) and traveled north along Junction to its terminus in Jackson Heights ...
Queens Boulevard Line E F <F> December 10, 1950 [29] Jamaica–Van Wyck: B Archer Avenue Line E December 11, 1988 [30] Junction Boulevard** A Flushing Line 7 <7> April 21, 1917 [27] Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike** B Queens Boulevard Line E F <F> December 31, 1936 [29] Mets–Willets Point**†
[6] [7] The nearest competitor malls are Queens Center and Queens Place Mall. As of February 2015, Vornado Realty Trust, the mall's owner, is developing a 24-story, 314-unit residential tower named The Alexander on top of the mall's phase II, due to a surge in young professionals moving into the area. About 20% of the units are studio ...
A flying junction between Mets–Willets Point and 111th Street provides access to the Corona Yard from the local tracks. [5] At 48th Street in Sunnyside, the line switches to Queens Boulevard and an ornate concrete viaduct begins. The express track ends between 33rd Street–Rawson Street and Queensboro Plaza. [4] [6]
Jackson Heights was conceived as a planned development for middle- to upper-middle-income workers looking to escape an overcrowded Manhattan. Inspired by Sir Ebenezer Howard's garden city movement, [10] [16] [17] it was laid out by Edward MacDougall's Queensboro Corporation in 1916 and began attracting residents after the arrival of the Flushing Line in 1917.