Steinway Street station

The Steinway Street station is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located under Steinway Street between Broadway and 34th Avenue, it is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E train at night.
== History ==
The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.New York Times, New Subway Routes in Hylan Program to Cost $186,046,000, March 21, 1925, page 1 The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million. One of the proposed stations would have been located at Steinway Street.
The first section of the line, west from Roosevelt Avenue to 50th Street, opened on August 19, 1933. trains ran local to Hudson Terminal (today's World Trade Center) in Manhattan, while the (predecessor to current G service) ran as a shuttle service between Queens Plaza and Nassau Avenue on the IND Crosstown Line.
In 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.
== Station layout ==
G 	Street level 	Exit/entrance
M 	Mezzanine 	Fare control, station agent
PPlatform level	Side platform 	Side platform
PPlatform level	Southbound local	← toward weekdays ()← toward ()← toward late nights ()
PPlatform level	Northbound local	toward weekdays () → toward () → toward late nights () →
PPlatform level	Side platform 	Side platform
This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms. Both platform walls have a Grape trim line with a black border and mosaic name tablets reading "STEINWAY ST." in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and Grape border. Small tile captions reading "STEINWAY" in white on black run below the trim line, and directional signs in the same style are present under some of the name tablets. Royal purple I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.
South of this station, the express tracks rejoin the local tracks and the line becomes four tracks again.
===Exits===
There are two separate mezzanines, one at each end of the station, and crossover is allowed on both of them. The full-time side on Steinway Street near Broadway has two street stairs. This side has two small staircases to the southbound side and a single platform-wide staircase on the northbound side. The part-time side at 34th Avenue and Steinway Street currently has no booth (it had been completely dismantled for asbestos abatement), and is HEET turnstile access at all times. This side has two stairs to the street to the northeast and southwest corners, and one to each platform.
== References ==
== External links ==
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* Station Reporter — R Train
* Station Reporter — M Train
* The Subway Nut — Steinway Street Pictures
* Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
* 34th Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
* Platforms from Google Maps Street View
Category:IND Queens Boulevard Line stations
Category:1933 establishments in New York City
Category:New York City Subway stations in Queens, New York
Category:New York City Subway stations located underground
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1933
Category:Astoria, Queens