Roosevelt Island (IND 63rd Street Line)

For other uses, see Roosevelt Island (disambiguation).

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
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 (1989-10-29)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,966,493  5.1%
Rank	252
Station succession
Next north	21st Street – Queensbridge: F
Next south	Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street: F
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

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.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
B1	Upper Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending machines (Elevators at station house)
B2	Lower Mezzanine	Transfer between platforms
B3 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	← toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street)
	Northbound	→ toward Jamaica – 179th Street (21st Street – Queensbridge) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B4	Track 1	← LIRR East Side Access (under construction)
	Track 2	→ LIRR East Side Access (under construction) →

The station opened on October 29, 1989 in conjunction with the partial completion of the 63rd Street Tunnel. The station has two tracks and two side platforms. It is the fourth deepest station in the New York City Subway at about 100 feet (30 m) below street level (approximately 10 stories deep) behind 34th Street – Hudson Yards, 190th Street, and 191st Street stations, also in Manhattan. Due to its depth, the station contains several features not common in the rest of the system. Similar to stations of the Paris Metro and Washington Metro, the Roosevelt Island station was built with a high vaulted ceiling and a mezzanine directly visible above the tracks. These features can also be found on some of the system's other deep stations, including Grand Central, 168th Street, and 181st Street stations, along with future stations along the Second Avenue Subway. The station is fully ADA-accessible, with elevators to street level. Fare control is in a glass-enclosed building off of Main Street. West of this station, there is a diamond crossover and two bellmouths for possible service south on the Second Avenue Subway. There is an emergency exit from the future LIRR's lower level at the middle of each platform.

At an April 14, 2008 news conference, Governor David Paterson announced that the MTA will power a substantial portion of the station using tidal energy generated by turbines located in the East River which are part of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project. This is part of a larger MTA initiative to use sustainable energy resources within the subway system.

Gallery

• Roosevelt Island Subway Station by David Shankbone.jpg

  Platforms and tracks

• Escalators - 2008 Sep 1.jpg

  Graphic of Escalators at Station as of September 2008

• Roosevelt Island Entrance.jpg

  Station Entrance

External links

• nycsubway.org—IND 6th Avenue: Roosevelt Island
• F Train at Station Reporter
• Roosevelt Island station house and entrance from Google Maps Street View