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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]
Corona is covered by ZIP Code 11368. [48] The United States Post Office operates two post offices in Corona: the Corona A Station at 103-28 Roosevelt Avenue [49] and the Elmhurst Station at 59-01 Junction Boulevard. [50]
The complex of twenty 17-story apartment towers covers 40 acres (16 ha) and houses over 14,000 people in 4,605 apartments. (Each building's topmost floor is signed as 18, and there are no thirteenth floors.) [1] [2] The buildings are all named after cities or countries around the world and are grouped in clusters of four based on their theme.
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.
Corona Yard serves as the home yard of the IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7> trains). It is located south of Mets–Willets Point, at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park near Citi Field, the National Tennis Center, and the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs. Corona Yard opened in 1928 and maintains the R188s used on the 7 and <7> services.
[14] [16] [17] One last station at 179th Street was built on December 10, 1950. From 1939 to 1940, IND installed a spur off the Queens Boulevard Line called the IND World's Fair Line . [ 9 ] [ 14 ] [ 18 ] The line was demolished after the closing of the 1939 World's Fair and the remnants can be found in the Jamaica Yard .
originally Willets Point Boulevard Corona: connecting tracks to Corona Yard; 111th Street: local 7 October 13, 1925 [36] 103rd Street–Corona Plaza: local 7 April 21, 1917 [31] originally Alburtis Avenue Junction Boulevard: all 7 <7> April 21, 1917 [31] originally Junction Avenue Elmhurst: 90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue: local 7 April 21, 1917 [31]
The intersection of Corona Avenue and Junction Boulevard in eastern Elmhurst. 57th Avenue was known as the Flushing and Newtown Turnpike. [62] Built in 1801, it connected with present-day Flushing Avenue in Maspeth, and extended all the way to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [72]