21st Street (IND Crosstown Line)

21st Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address 21st Street & Jackson Avenue
Queens, NY 11101
Borough Queens
Locale Long Island City
Coordinates 40°44′41″N 73°56′55″W / 40.744591°N 73.948674°W / 40.744591; -73.948674Coordinates: 40°44′41″N 73°56′55″W / 40.744591°N 73.948674°W / 40.744591; -73.948674
Division B (IND)
Line       IND Crosstown Line
Services       G  (all times)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: B32, B62
MTA Bus: Q67, Q103
Structure Underground
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened August 19, 1933 (1933-08-19)[1]
Wireless service [2][3]
Former/other names 21st Street – Van Alst
Van Alst Avenue − 21st Street[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 533,529[4] Increase 24.8%
Rank 405 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Court Square: G 
Next south Greenpoint Avenue: G 

21st Street (also called 21st Street – Van Alst) is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 21st Street and Jackson Avenue in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, Queens, it is served by the G train at all times.

Station layout

Track layout
Legend
to Court Sq
to Greenpoint Av
G Street Level Exit/ Entrance
B1 Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
B2
Platform level		 Southbound ← toward Church Avenue (Greenpoint Avenue)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound → toward Court Square (Terminus) →
Stair on Jackson Avenue

21st Street was part of the first phase of the IND Crosstown Line, with service south to Nassau Avenue.[1] The site of the station was excavated by April 1929.[5] The station opened on August 19, 1933.[1] The secondary name "Van Alst" refers to Van Alst Avenue, the former name of 21st Street.[6][7] The Van Alst family had settled in Long Island City in 1652 during Dutch colonization, and constructed a family cemetery (now an empty lot at the former site of the West Disinfecting Company facility) on Jackson Avenue and Orchard Street near modern Queens Plaza.[6] The Van Alst name is shared with the Van Alst Playground, on 21st Street and 30th Avenue in Astoria.[6]

The station has two tracks and one island platform, built with a slight curve, as is Jackson Avenue at this location.[8][9] The trackside wall trim line is Hunter green with a black border and "21" underneath in white numbering on a black background.[1] The platform and mezzanine columns are painted a matching shade of Hunter green (they had previously been painted violet) with every other column having the standard black and white name signs. A booth for NYPD Transit Police District 20 is located at the southern end of the platform.[8] There is a full length mezzanine above the platform; however, only the northern half is open and has two staircases from the platform.[8][10] The southern half had three staircases to the platform and is used for storage and employee offices.[10][11] The station's only entrance/exit, from the northern mezzanine, has a turnstile bank, token booth, and three street stairs to the three-way intersection of 21st Street, Jackson Avenue, and 47th Avenue.[9][10][12]

Like many stations on the Crosstown Line, this one is in poor condition as the wall tile has been damaged by underground springs, particularly on the southbound side.[10][11][12][13][14] Despite this damage, there are no plans to make repairs.

North of this station, a center track briefly forms between the two main tracks of the Crosstown Line. This track allows trains to terminate on either track at Court Square. As a result, there is a train route selection panel at the north end of the northbound track.[8][14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "TWO SUBWAY UNITS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT; Links in City-Owned System in Queens and Brooklyn to Have 15 Stations.". The New York Times. August 18, 1933. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  3. ↑ More Subway Stations in Manhattan, Bronx in Line to Get Online, mta.info (March 25, 2015). "The first two phases included stations in Midtown Manhattan and all underground stations in Queens with the exception of the 7 Main St terminal."
  4. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  5. ↑ Snapp, Fletcher G. (April 24, 1929). "Newtown Creek Tunnel First Tube of Kind Bored Without Compressed Air". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Newspapers.com. p. 3. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 Roberts, Sam (November 3, 2014). "Long in Repose, Last Remnants of a Founding Family Will Leave Long Island City". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "ELY SUBWAY STOP TO OPEN; Queens Station on City-Owned Line Begins Service Tomorrow". The New York Times. August 26, 1939. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Review of the G Line: Appendices" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  9. 1 2 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Long Island City" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Abandoned Station Entrance: 21st Van Alst". ltvsquad.com. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  11. 1 2 "G Train". 2012-02-04. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  12. 1 2 Cox, Jeremiah. "21 St-Van Alst (G) - The SubwayNut". www.subwaynut.com. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  13. ↑ Cohen, Billie (January 10, 2008). "The G Train From Smith-9th Streets to Long Island City". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  14. 1 2 "www.nycsubway.org: IND Crosstown Line". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved 2016-02-19.

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