page_title: Jamaica–Van Wyck station
section_title: Station layout
hierarchical_section_title: Jamaica–Van Wyck station / Station layout
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking east across end of Metropolitan Avenue, at headhouse of IND station on a partly sunny afternoon.
context_page_description: Jamaica–Van Wyck is a station on the IND Archer Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located on the west side of the Van Wyck Expressway between Metropolitan Avenue and 89th Avenue on the border of Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill, Queens. It is served by the E train at all times. It is also the only station to be exclusively serviced by the E train.
context_section_description: This underground station has two tracks and a 600-foot-long (180 m) island platform. It serves as the replacement for the former Metropolitan Avenue and Queens Boulevard stations of the BMT Jamaica Line. The track walls are mostly orange. The mezzanine is suspended above the Jamaica-bound track via heavy cables linked to the station roof. On the Manhattan-bound side, the station walls contain spaces for windows that can allow natural sunlight in, but they are currently covered over.
  North (railroad south) of the station, the tracks lead trains to the IND Queens Boulevard Line, where they either switch to the line's local or express tracks depending on the time of day.
  This station has five escalators and two elevators.
caption: Metropolitan Avenue entrance
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