Main Street-Flushing (IRT Flushing Line)
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{{Infobox NYCS | name = Main Street–Flushing | accessible = yes | image = Flushing-mainst-07.jpg | font_color = white | bg_color = purple | line = IRT Flushing Line | service = Flushing | connection = Template:LIRR Port Washington Branch at Flushing–Main Street | connection_2 = Q48 bus to LaGuardia Airport | platforms = 2 island platforms | tracks = 3 | borough = Queens | north_custom_station = (Terminal) | south_station = Willets Point-Shea Stadium | south_line = IRT Flushing Line | south_service = Flushing | open_month_day = January 2 | open_year = 1928 }}
Main Street–Flushing is the terminal station of the New York City Subway's Template:IRT Flushing Line, located at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing. It is a three track, two platform station, completely renovated between 1999 and 2000, and ADA-compliant access has been added. Mosaic tiles read "MAIN STREET"; small tiles along the platforms read "M". The original street exit is in the middle of the platforms with a separate fare control mezzanine above the tracks. The new fare control area at the east end has an extremely high ceiling, approximately 40 feet below the street level, and provides an elevator, three escalators, and a stairway to street level at Lippman Plaza. New artwork has been installed over the row of turnstiles.
There are two entrances at street level. The main entrance is located in the centre of the platforms and leads the station service mezzanine with a 24-hour station agent's booth.
The new Lippmann Plaza entrance opened in 1999 and is located at the far east end of the station, beyond the end of the tracks at the bumper blocks. Prior to 1999, the tracks went past where the current bumper blocks are to make a dead-end. The new entrance has stairs, an escalator, and an ADA-accessible elevator. This station is one of the three on the IRT Flushing Line that is accessible to the disabled.
At the west end of the station platforms are the offices and dispatch centre for the Flushing Line. This is where the trains are dispatched, crews report, and the line is controlled from.
Transfer Connections
Buses
- Q12: Sanford Avenue / Northern Boulevard to Little Neck
- Q13: Northern Boulevard / Bell Boulevard to Fort Totten
- Q14: Union / 149th Streets to Whitestone
- Q15: 150th Street to Beechhurst
- Q16: Bayside Avenue / Willets Point Boulevard to Fort Totten
- Q17/Q17 Limited: Kissena Boulevard / Horace Harding Expressway / 188 Street to Jamaica
- Q20A: Main Street / Union Street / 20th Avenue to College Point or Jamaica
- Q20B: Main Street / Union Street / 14th Avenue to College Point or Jamaica
- Q25: Parsons Boulevard / Kissena Boulevard to College Point or Jamaica
- Q26: 46th Avenue / Hollis Court Boulevard to Fresh Meadows
- Q27/Q27 Limited: 46th Avenue / Rocky Hill Road / Springfield Boulevard to Cambria Heights
- Q28: Northern Boulevard / 32nd Avenue to Bay Terrace
- Q34: Parsons Boulevard to Whitestone or Jamaica
- Q44/Q44 Limited: Main Street / Cross Bronx Expressway to the Bronx Zoo or Jamaica
- Q48: Roosevelt Avenue / Ditmars Boulevard to LaGuardia Airport
- Q58: Fresh Pond Road / Grand Avenue / Corona Avenue to Ridgewood
- Q65: 164 Street to College Point or Jamaica
- Q66: Northern Boulevard (West) to Woodside or Long Island City
- QBx1: Whitestone Expressway / Bruckner Boulevard to Pelham Bay Park (Template:NYCS 6) subway station or Co-op City, Bronx
- N20: Northern Boulevard to Hicksville
- N21: Northern Boulevard to Glen Cove
Rail
Gallery
 Main Street station, Flushing line terminus |
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