61 St-Woodside
The mezzanine area at 61 Street-Woodside gets its own page because it is completely shared between the subway and LIRR trains, it houses two staircases down to each of the 3 LIRR platforms (along with an elevator) with the elevator to the street being the one that also serves platform A. These are all on the sides of the building. In the middle of the building is a fenced in area that serves as the subway entrance area with two staircases up to each Flushing Line platform along with their own platform elevators. The subway's turnstiles are towards the end opposite the subway platform elevators, and face the token booth. There is an additional set of two High Exit Turnstiles towards the other end of this area to provide easier access to some of the rail platforms. The LIRR's ticket window is in clear view of the subway turnstiles, open weekdays 6:10am to 6:00pm, and weekends 8:10am to 3:30pm, on the west side of this large mezzanine and there are some LIRR style black benches for waiting passengers. A newsstand is also here. The stop has various banks of both Subway MVMs and LIRR TVMs scattered about. Access to this mezzanine without venturing onto the LIRR platforms (subway passengers do use them) is limited: a narrow, up only escalator from SE corner of 61 Street and Roosevelt Avenue, and a single staircase that curves its way down from the mezzanine level before splitting into two separate sections down to the street near the NE corner. This is along with the shared street elevator down to the NE corner. These entrances are all signed, except for the elevator, in subway black signs and just for the subway.
Photos 1-16: May 28, 2010; 17-20: June 19, 2011; 21-23: November 1, 2012
Arts For Transit at Woodside
