Elmhurst Avenue (M,R) - The SubwayNut

Elmhurst Avenue is a regular local Queens Blvd Line station with a full-length mezzanine. The mezzanine here is still fully intact but has the design of a single token both in its middle to serve both exits on either end, so there is no free crossover provided between directions. The three separate corridors of the mezzanine, one for access to the platforms for either direction and a corridor in the center outside of fare control are all separated by cheap looking white chain-link fencing. At each end of the mezzanine by either of the exits there are MetroCard vending machines and High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles (as well as the older High Exit Turnstiles) so most passengers using the station have no need to go anywhere near the token booth that is quite far out of the way. The exit at the eastern end of the mezzanine has three exits: two via streetstairs up to the SW and SE corners of 45 Avenue and Broadway and the final through a shopping arcade to the NW Corner of Elmhurst Avenue and Broadway. The exit at the western end of the station has two streetsairs one to the NW corner of Britton Avenue & and one to the SW corner of 82 Street and Broadway. The different streets going north and south of Broadway is because Broadway is a dividing point in the street grid in this part of Queens and none of the streets continue through.

The color scheme of the side platforms is teal trim (and the standard black border around it) with teal borders around the name tablets and the columns painted yellow. A lot of the platform tiling has been incorrectly patched together over the years but imperfectly giving way to some funny abbreviated spellings of Elmhurst. There are a couple of references to the city hospital at Elmhurst including what looks like an original hand painted sign.
Photos 1-20: June 5, 2008; 21-25:

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A view of the Elmhurst text underneath the blue trim.

A Elmhurst Ave name tablet.

A boring Elmhurst Ave column sign.

Two high exit gates to the 82nd Street exit at Elmhurst Avenue from the Forest Hills-bound platform.

A mosaic for the exit at 82nd St.

Looking down the very lengthy mezzanine at 82nd St, down the portion of it fenced off for Forest Hills-bound service.

A sign on the mezzanine at Elmhurst Ave for the directions to the two exits.

The turnstiles to the center of the corridor outside of fare control from the Forest Hills-bound side of the mezzanine nowhere near an actual exit to the street.

The Customer Information center at Elmhurst Ave has been put up directly on the chain link fence that separates the within fare control areas from the outside of fare control corridor that goes down the center of the mezzanine.

A mosaic for the exit to 45th Ave at Elmhurst Ave.

Two old wooden-type High Exit Turnstiles and a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile lead out of the Forest Hills-bound side of the mezzanine at the exit to 45th Ave, TVMs for that entrance are also visible.

A view down the seemingly endless mezzanine with two sets of long chain link fence at Elmhurst Ave

Looking across to the Manhattan-bound platform with a Elmhurst Ave name tablet visible

'Urst' underneath the trim at Elmhurst Ave do to a bad patch job of the tiling.

Elmhurst text underneath the trim with an upside-down S.

It's not Elmhurst it simply Elmhurst Ave, another area of incorrect patching of the trim

An old hand painted sign for City Hospital at Elmhurst Ave that is probably original above a name tablet.

Looking across the tracks at Elmhurst Ave to a name tablet directly underneath a bench.

Another shotty retiling job on a tiled directional sign for the 82nd St exit, the 8 looks totally wrong.

Text for the City Hospital at Elmhurst directly next to a name tablet.

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