Elmhurst Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Elmhurst Avenue   ​
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Manhattan bound platform with mosaic.
Station statistics
Address	Elmhurst Avenue, 45th Avenue, & Broadway Elmhurst, NY 11373
Borough	Queens
Locale	Elmhurst
Coordinates	40°44′30″N 73°52′52″W / 40.741795°N 73.88104°W / 40.741795; -73.88104Coordinates: 40°44′30″N 73°52′52″W / 40.741795°N 73.88104°W / 40.741795; -73.88104
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services	E  (late nights) ​      M  (weekdays until 11 p.m.) ​      R  (all hours except late nights)
Transit connections	MTA Bus: Q53 SBS
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	December 31, 1936; 81 years ago (1936-12-31)
Station code	266
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	4,268,747  1.9%
Rank	117 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Grand Avenue–Newtown: E  ​M  ​R
Next south	Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue: E  ​M  ​R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops weekdays only
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Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference #	05000672
Added to NRHP	July 6, 2005

Elmhurst Avenue is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Elmhurst Avenue, 45th Avenue, and Broadway in Elmhurst, 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 Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25,000,000. On December 31, 1936, the IND Queens Boulevard Line was extended by eight stops, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km), from its previous terminus at Roosevelt Avenue to Union Turnpike, and the Elmhurst Avenue station opened as part of this extension.

This underground station has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the E train during daytime hours and the F train at all times. Both platforms have a teal trim line on a black border with small "ELMHURST" signs in white lettering on a black background beneath them. They also have name tablets reading "ELMHURST AVE." in white sans serif lettering on a black background and teal border. Yellow i-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black name plates in white lettering.