90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue station
New York City IRT Flushing Line subway station
The 90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue station is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 90th Street and Elmhurst Avenue on the border of Elmhurst and Jackson Heights in Queens, it is served by the 7 train at all times. The <7> train skips this station when it operates.
History
Early history
The 1913 Dual Contracts called for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT; later Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT) to build new lines in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Queens did not receive many new IRT and BRT lines compared to Brooklyn and the Bronx, since the city's Public Service Commission (PSC) wanted to alleviate subway crowding in the other two boroughs first before building in Queens, which was relatively undeveloped. The IRT Flushing Line was to be one of two Dual Contracts lines in the borough, along with the Astoria Line; it would connect Flushing and Long Island City, two of Queens's oldest settlements, to Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel. When the majority of the line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and Roosevelt Avenue had not been constructed. Community leaders advocated for more Dual Contracts lines to be built in Queens to allow development there. The Flushing Line was opened from Queensboro Plaza to Alburtis Avenue (now 103rd Street–Corona Plaza) on April 21, 1917, with a local station at 90th Street.
Later years
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue station” as new York City IRT Flushing Line subway station. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as new York City IRT Flushing Line subway station. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2611970. Authority coordinates are 40.748, -73.876. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1913, 1917 and 1940.
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