40 St-Lowery St (7) - The SubwayNut

40 Street-Lowery St is located on the concrete elevated viaduct above the median of Queens Blvd with just parking beneath. The sides of the elevated are decked out in concrete and decorative green and yellow tiles. The station is a local stop with two side platforms for the three track lined with concrete walls with little semi-translucent blocks letting more natural light in and a roof that is cantilevered from the sides of the elevated structure with no intermediate columns. The extreme ends of the platforms just have a line of lampposts and a low concrete walls.

The station has a single exit in the middle of the platforms where two staircases lead down to a mezzanine area beneath the tracks where there is no free crossunder with each set of staircases leading to its own bank of turnstiles with one token booth between them. This in turn leads out to street stairs on all four corners of the pedestrian plaza formed in the middle of Queens Blvd between its central parking lots beneath the el that 40 Street is split into two to from.
Photos 1-15: May 28, 2010;

Stepping off an arriving 7 train

An arriving Flushing-bound 7 train closes its doors

Looking across to the opposite platform at 40 St-Lowery St with its two staircases

A view down the tracks

Inside the small mezzanine area where there is no free crossunder due to the lcoation of the exit stairs, just a token booth between two banks of turnstiles

The Times Square-42 St turnstiles and the station house fare control area

Two station entrances at street level in the plaza beneath Queens Blvd

Inside the plaza beneath Queens Blvd looking north towards the end of one section of 40 St

A station entrance staircase these all gates although the entrance is open full time

Looking up at the concrete elevated structure with its decorative tiling and glass

A view west down the unique concrete elevated structure with its decorative ornamentation

The station is above Queens Blvd with parking beneath

Another view of the elevated structure from street level with the station's mezzanine entrance nesstled beneath

At the eastern ends of the platforms the canopy has ended

A 7 train runs above Queens Blvd over the intersection with 43 Street