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Woodhaven Boulevard is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, consisting of four tracks. Located in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, it is served by the R train at all times except nights, when the E train takes over service. The M train provides additional service here on weekdays except nights. The station serves the adjacent Queens Center Mall, as well as numerous bus lines. ==Station layout== The station opened on December 31, 1936, as part of an extension of the Queens Boulevard Line from Roosevelt Avenue to Union Turnpike.〔 Built as a local station, the station was constructed with bellmouth provisions to allow conversion into an express station. A close observation of both ends of this station reveals that the tunnel wall extends outward to allow space for the two side platforms to be replaced with island platforms, with the local tracks taking the side platforms' place. The station would have accommodated a major system expansion, with additional service coming from the Roosevelt Avenue Terminal station and the former LIRR Rockaway Line. Requests to convert the station were also put forward by the local community shortly after the station opened, due to heavy bus traffic feeding into the station and overcrowding at the Roosevelt Avenue express stop. The station has name tablets, which read "Woodhaven Blvd – Slattery Plaza" and are now out of date. Slattery Plaza was the old name of the area where four main Queens thoroughfares (Eliot Avenue and Horace Harding, Woodhaven, and Queens Boulevards) intersected, and featured several "mom-and-pop" small businesses. The plaza and subway station were named after Colonel John R. Slattery, former Transportation Board chief engineer who died in 1932 while supervising the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue Line. The construction of the Long Island Expressway along the Horace Harding corridor caused Slattery Plaza to be demolished. Queens Center Mall first opened in 1972, but the name convention on subway maps was not in use until the late 1980s. The station was renovated in the 1990s,〔(The New Woodhaven Blvd Station Woodhaven Blvd station Built in the 30s Renewed for the 90s )〕 but retained the now out of date "Woodhaven Blvd – Slattery Plaza" name tablets. The station's full-length mezzanine allows crossover from any of the station's four staircases from each platform, with a total of eight staircases from the mezzanine to platform level. There is no direct indoor access to the Queens Center Mall's entrance at the northwest corner of Queens Boulevard and 59th Avenue from the mezzanine.〔 The 1996 artwork here is called ''In Memory of The Lost Battalion'' by Pablo Tauler. It uses nine support beams in the station's mezzanine wrapped in different materials, including stainless steel, to honor the soldiers who served in the 77th Infantry Division during World War I. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woodhaven Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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