Roosevelt Island (IND 63rd Street Line)

Roosevelt Island
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Main Street near Road 5 New York, NY 10044
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Roosevelt Island
Coordinates	40°45′33″N 73°57′12″W / 40.759188°N 73.953438°W / 40.759188; -73.953438Coordinates: 40°45′33″N 73°57′12″W / 40.759188°N 73.953438°W / 40.759188; -73.953438
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND 63rd Street Line
Services	F  (all times)
Transit connections	Roosevelt Island Tramway MTA Bus: Q102 RIOC: Red Bus, Octagon Express
Structure	Underground
Depth	100 feet (30 m)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	October 29, 1989; 27 years ago (1989-10-29)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,966,493  5.1%
Rank	252 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	21st Street–Queensbridge: F
Next south	Lexington Avenue–63rd Street: F
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Roosevelt Island is a station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Manhattan on Roosevelt Island in the East River, it is served by the F train at all times.

The current 63rd Street Line was the final version of proposals for a northern midtown tunnel from the IND Queens Boulevard Line to the Second and Sixth Avenue lines, which date back to the IND Second System of the 1920s and 1930s. The current plans were drawn up in the 1960s under the MTA's Program For Action. On February 16, 1965, the New York City Transit Authority announced plans to construct a subway station on the island along the 63rd Street Line, as part of the island's proposed transit-oriented development. The construction of a station was viewed to be vital for the development of the island, which was then known as Welfare Island. At that point, it was decided to have a shell built for the station, to allow for the station to open after the opening of the rest of the line, with a projected savings of $4 million compared to if the station was built as a infill station after the rest of the line opened. The projected cost of the station was $3,300,000.

This station opened on October 29, 1989 along with the entire IND 63rd Street Line. The Q train served the station on weekdays and the B train stopped there on the weekends; both services used the Sixth Avenue Line. For the first couple of months after the station opened, the JFK Express to Kennedy Airport also served the station until it was discontinued in 1990. The tunnel had gained notoriety as the "tunnel to nowhere" both during its planning and after its opening. Roosevelt Island was the second-to-last stop before 21st Street–Queensbridge, the line's northern terminus; the 21st Street station was not connected to any other subway station or line in Queens until the connection to the Queens Boulevard Line was completed and opened in 2001. Thereafter, the station began being served by the F train, which serves Roosevelt Island to this day.

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