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Borough: Queens

SUBWAY: F

F (All Times) To: Coney Island, Brooklyn (Southbound) or Jamaica-179 Street, Queens (Northbound) via 63 Street, Queens Express, or 6 Avenue-Culver Local

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(all photos by Jeremiah Cox on 9 February, 2004)

21 Street-Queensbridge is currently just a stop on the F in western Queens. Before the 63 Street Connector opened in 2001 this was the terminus of the 'tunnel to no where' (as it was called when it opened in 1989). It was one for ten years. Passengers had to deal with the overpass and there were good signs to know what track the current trains were running on since the crossover switch is before the station. I still do not understand why the station is not an island platform. Service through 63 Street and to Queensbridge before 2001 and the F stabilizing it changed a lot over the years. For the most part it was as fallows: Q during weekday rush hours and middays, B on Nights and Weekends. Late Night service was either a special S 63rd Street Shuttle to 2nd Avenue or Broadway-Lafayette (it ran at all times from July to December 2001 since the Manhattan Bridge Flip happened first), or the F (the G was extended to 179 Street-Jamaica). During 1998 and half of 1999 the track bed of the 63 Street line had to be re-built (it was a faulty new design) an S shuttle operated every 20 minutes to 57th Street/7th Avenue, the B and Q terminated at 57th Street/6th Avenue just like old times.
The Station has one exit to 21 Street and 41 Avenue. Fare control is on visible mezzanine in the middle of the station. The platforms are quite similar to Roosevelt Island There are no columns any where except where the mezzanine is, the roof also doubles in size here. Since the station is not as deep and not under water the ceilings are square and have no arch. The station is, of course wheelchair accessible.

(21f1) A 'okay to open doors' sign for 8-car R-32s. The text is handwritten at 21 St (F)	(21f2) A Jamaica bound F leaves 21 St (F)	(21f3) Looking down the Jamaica bound platform at 21 St (F). The Police booth is in the distance since the trains are about to enter a river tunnel	(21f4) A name sign (The station is new, there are no name tablets) at 21 St-Queensbridge (F).

(21f5) Looking across 21 St-Queensbridge (F) There is a Manhattan bound F (R-46) stopped. Notice the 2 foot wall in between the tracks	(21f6) A sign for the exit at 21 Street (F) & 41st Avenue	(21f7) Looking down towards the mezzanine at 21 St (F)	(21f8) Looking across at the escalators down from the mezzanine at 21 St (F)

(21f9) Looking across the overpass and towards fare control at 21 St (F)	(21f10) Looking down across from the mezzanine at the green squares and small lights that decorate the vertical wall when the station gets lower at 21 St (F)	(21f11) half way down the mezzanine at 21 St (F). The turnstiles are in the distance.	(21f12) A elevator to the Jamaica platform at 21 St (F)
(21f13) The concrete beam in between the tracks that holds up the mezzanine has a round hole in it at 21 St (F)

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About 21 Street-Queensbridge

Location: @41 Avenue
Bus Connection: Q19A·Q31·Q60·Q66·Q101·Q101R·Q102·Q103

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