Parsons Blvd (F,E-Limited Rush hour service)

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Parsons Boulevard is the last express stop on the Queens Blvd line, it is a typical IND express station with two fairly narrow island platforms and basically a full length mezzanine that is entirely with in fare control except for the two exits from it at either end of the station, an exit to Parsons Blvd at one end with the full time booth and an exit to 153rd Street at the other end that only has HEETS (High Exit/Entrance gates). There is a small corridor outside of fare control on the extreme side of the mezzanine just above the Jamaica-bound tracks that connects the two exit and fare control areas. The mezzanine has staircases down to the Jamaica-bound platform for its entirety, but gets narrower with employee rooms built over where staircases would be down to the Manhattan-bound platform, so these only exist near the two exits/entrances. The island platform has maroon-red painted columns (that also exist on the mezzanine) and orange trim with a black border along the platform walls, and Parsons tiling one tile underneath the trim.


(parsonsf1) Looking down towards the very end of the Jamaica-bound platform at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 9 February, 2004	(parsonsf2) Looking across the express tracks at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 9 February, 2004	(parsonsf3) Looking down the long mezzanine at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 9 February, 2004	(parsonsf4) A modern dot-matrix sign that is identical to the useless ones that only seem to say the date and time along the platforms flashes and beeps saying a Manhattan-bound train arriving at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 9 February, 2004

(parsonsf5) A rare close up view of the Parsons tiling and trim taken out the window of the R1-9s running in service due to the Subway Centennial. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 26 September, 2004	(parsonsf6) A close up of the 'parsons' text on a column at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008	(parsonsf7) Original, now very dirty, black lettering on a white background 'Parsons' signs are still intact along the columns between the express tracks. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008	(parsonsf8) The orange wall trim that's three tiles wide and the 1/2 tile black border with Parsons letting one full tile below it along the local track walls at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008

(parsonsf9) Looking across to a conductors stop point for a 4 car R46 G train on the Jamaica-bound express track at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008	(parsonsf10) A sign for a staircase up to the Mezzanine and the exit to Hillside Avenue/153 Street at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008	(parsonsf11) A view down the mezzanine to the HEET exit to 153 Street at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008	(parsonsf12) Another view down the mezzanine at Parsons Blvd where it gets narrower where it looks like rooms (the tile whiter then in the rest of the station) have been carved out of the mezzanine over the Manhattan-bound tracks at Parsons Blvd. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008

(parsonsf13) A staircase down 'To 179 Street' with the black fence that separates the corridor that leads between the two entrances to the station outside of fare control visible behind it. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008	(parsonsf14) Passengers disembark from a Jamaica-bound F train coming home during the evening rush. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 2 June, 2008