82nd Street – Jackson Heights is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 82nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, it is served by the 7 train at all times.
This elevated station, opened on April 21, 1917, has three tracks and two side platforms. The center track is used by the peak direction rush hour <7> express service. Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies supported by green frames and columns in the center and black waist-high steel fences at either ends. The station signs are in the standard black name plate in white lettering. Each platform has a large "82" sign between the two staircases to the mezzanine below.
This station's one entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks. It is built of wood and bricks and has a concrete flooring. It has three staircases from all corners of 82nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue except the southeast one and a token booth in the center. Two turnstile banks at either ends lead to a waiting area/crossunder and one staircase to each platform at the center.
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