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The platforms, as viewed looking east from the 61st Street–Woodside station. Woodside originally had two railroad stations. One was built in 1861 on 60th Street by the LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad; the other, larger station was built by the Flushing and North Side Railroad on November 15, 1869, and was the first to be built by the F&NS after acquiring the troubled New York ...
The 61st Street–Woodside station (announced as the Woodside–61st Street station on trains) is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway located at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. It is served by the 7 train, with additional peak-direction <7> service during rush hours.
Jamaica is a major transfer station between branches, as it provides the interchange from the eastern Long Island stations to the western New York terminals and vice versa. Other inter-branch transfer stations include Woodside, Mineola, Hicksville, Valley Stream, Lynbrook and Babylon.
A tunnel cavern deep under Park Avenue, to the north of the new LIRR station, which now houses a switch. Work on the Manhattan side included building a new 8-track train station with storage tracks extending to 38th Street. [45]: 1 (PDF p. 2) [28]: 3 North of the station, the tunnels would connect to the 63rd Street Tunnel's lower level.
In 1951 the station's city of license changed from Woodside to New York City. Most programs on the station were oriented towards Hispanic and Black listeners, and Greek, Syrian, Irish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Scandinavian shows also joined the schedule. By decade's end, WWRL had a 24-hour broadcast day primarily in Spanish.
61st Street–Woodside (IRT Flushing Line), a station on the New York City Subway; Woodside station (LIRR), a station on the Long Island Rail Road in New York; Woodside station (Maryland), a proposed station on the Purple Line in Maryland
The 69th Street station (also known as the 69th Street–Fisk Avenue station) 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.
Plans to close the station can be traced as far back as 1910, [2] but the station was closed and then razed in 1929, making Woodside Station the transfer point between Main Line and Port Washington Branch trains. Winfield station map, 1891. South is at the top. Railroad Avenue was the old New York and Flushing Railroad line.