Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue (IRT Flushing Line)
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Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
A <7> Express train speeds out of Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue station.
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| Address | 50th Avenue between Vernon Boulevard & Jackson Avenue Queens, NY 11101 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||||
| Locale | Long Island City | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′34″N 73°57′14″W / 40.74264°N 73.95391°WCoordinates: 40°44′34″N 73°57′14″W / 40.74264°N 73.95391°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 |
 MTA Bus: Q103 LIRR: City Terminal Zone (at Long Island City) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | June 22, 1915 | ||||||||
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| Former/other names | Vernon–Jackson Avenues | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 4,462,652  7% |
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| Rank | 108 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
Hunters Point Avenue: 7 <7>
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| Next south |
Grand Central: 7 <7>
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Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue (often informally referred to as Vernon–Jackson, as its former name was Vernon–Jackson Avenues) is the westernmost station in Queens on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the 7 train at all times and the <7> train rush hours in the peak direction. Despite its name, the station is not quite located at the intersection of Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue. It is located on 50th Avenue between Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue, both of which have entrances to the station.
This station opened on June 22, 1915 as a terminal for shuttle trains going into Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel until the line was extended to Hunters Point Avenue on February 5, 1916.
The platforms at Vernon Boulevard were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains.
This underground has two side platforms and two tracks. A black wall separates the two tracks for most of the station.
Both platforms have a line of yellow columns along their edges. Most of these are normal I-beam columns, but in the middle of the platforms, cream colored arches, which is also the color of the station's ceiling, starting at about four feet off the ground support a short section of the columns. The platform walls have a mosaic gold and brown trim line on top while the name tablets are mosaic white with white text reading "Vernon-Jackson Ave's" (erroneous if the use is considered in the possessive context, but it can also be considered as a contractional form of the plural) on a brown background and gold and brown border. There are also a few directional signs to the station's fare control areas reading "Vernon Ave" or "Jackson Ave" with an arrow beneath.
Each platform has two same-level fare control areas and there are no crossovers or crossunders connecting the platforms. The full-time fare control areas are just west of the middle of the platforms, though only the Manhattan-bound platform still has a token booth. Each area has a small regular turnstile bank and two staircases to the street, the northeast corner of Vernon Boulevard and 50th Avenue for the Manhattan-bound platform and the southwest corner for the Flushing-bound platform. The southern staircase's steel fencing does not have the standard black sign saying what station this is and what trains serve it.
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