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}} Flushing – Main Street is the northern terminal station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in the Downtown section of Flushing, Queens. It is served by the at all times and the <7> train rush hours in the peak direction. The Flushing – Main Street station was originally built as part of the Dual Contracts between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT). It opened on January 21, 1928, completing the segment of the Flushing Line in Queens. Although plans existed for the line to be extended east of the station, such an extension was never built. The station was renovated in the 1990s. ==History== The station was constructed under the Dual Contracts as part of an extension of the Flushing Line past 103rd Street – Corona Plaza. At the time of the line's planning in the 1910s, Downtown Flushing was a quiet Dutch-colonial-style village; what is now Roosevelt Avenue in the area was known as Amity Street, a major commercial thoroughfare in the neighborhood.〔〔 It was decided to build the station underground due to local opposition to the disturbances, loss of property value, and the required widening of Amity Street that an elevated line would bring.〔 Thus, it is one of only seven underground stations on the Flushing Line, one of three on the line in Queens, and the only one east of Queensboro Plaza. Construction of the station and the double-deck bridge over the Flushing Creek began on April 21, 1923, with the station built via cut-and-cover methods.〔 The bridge was completed in 1927, and the station opened on January 21, 1928, over a decade after the line began operation.〔〔〔 Following the station's opening, Downtown Flushing evolved into a major commercial and transit center. Due to the high level of passenger use, an eastern entrance was added after World War II.〔 The station underwent a major renovation project between 1999 and 2000, which had been in planning stages since the 1970s. This made the station ADA-compliant. The project added new entrances and a large entrance hall near Lippmann Plaza at the far east end of the station, beyond the bumper blocks at the end of the tracks.〔 Prior to 1999, the tracks went past where the current bumper blocks are, to a dead-end. Flushing – Main Street Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Register of Historical Places - NEW YORK (NY), Queens County )〕 The 2014 passenger count for this station was 19,085,948 – making it the 12th busiest station system-wide and the busiest station outside of Manhattan.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flushing – Main Street (IRT Flushing Line)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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