Flushing – Main Street (IRT Flushing Line)
Flushing–Main Street 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
Center track
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| Address |
Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue Queens, NY 11354 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||||
| Locale | Flushing | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′34.28″N 73°49′49.14″W / 40.7595222°N 73.8303167°WCoordinates: 40°45′34.28″N 73°49′49.14″W / 40.7595222°N 73.8303167°W | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Flushing Line | ||||||||
| Services |
7  (all times) <7> (rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: Q12, Q13, Q15, Q15A, Q16, Q17, Q20A, Q20B, Q26, Q27, Q44 SBS,  Q48, Q58 MTA Bus: Q19, Q25, Q34, Q50, Q65, Q66 NICE Bus: n20G LIRR: Port Washington Branch (at Flushing Main Street) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | January 21, 1928 | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 19,082,391  0% |
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| Rank | 12 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north | (Terminal): 7 <7>
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| Next south |
Mets–Willets Point: 7 <7>
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| Next north |
none: 7 <7>
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| Next south |
Junction Boulevard: 7 <7>
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Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)
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| MPS | New York City Subway System MPS | ||||||||
| NRHP Reference # | 04001147 | ||||||||
| Added to NRHP | October 14, 2004 | ||||||||
Flushing–Main Street (signed as Main Street on entrances and pillars, and Main St–Flushing on overhead signs) is the northern terminal station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in the Downtown section of Flushing, Queens. It is served by the 7 at all times and the <7> train rush hours in the peak direction.
The Flushing–Main Street station was originally built as part of the Dual Contracts between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT). It opened on January 21, 1928, completing the segment of the Flushing Line in Queens. Although plans existed for the line to be extended east of the station, such an extension was never built. The station was renovated in the 1990s.
The passenger count in 2015 for the station was 19,082,391, making it the 12th busiest station system-wide, the busiest station in Queens, and the busiest station outside of Manhattan.
The station was constructed under the Dual Contracts as part of an extension of the Flushing Line past 103rd Street–Corona Plaza. At the time of the line's planning in the 1910s, Downtown Flushing was a quiet Dutch-colonial-style village; what is now Roosevelt Avenue in the area was known as Amity Street, a major commercial thoroughfare in the neighborhood. It was decided to build the station underground due to local opposition to the disturbances, loss of property value, and the required widening of Amity Street that an elevated line would bring. Thus, it is one of only seven underground stations on the Flushing Line, one of three underground stations on the line in Queens, and the only underground station east of Queensboro Plaza. Construction of the station and the double-deck bridge over the Flushing Creek began on April 21, 1923, with the station built via cut-and-cover methods. The bridge was completed in 1927, and the station opened on January 21, 1928, over a decade after the line began operation.
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