36th Street

The 36th Street station is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 36th Street and Northern Boulevard in Queens, it is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E and F trains at night.

The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million. One of the proposed stations would have been located at 36th Street. The first section of the line, west from Roosevelt Avenue to 50th Street, opened on August 19, 1933. E trains ran local to Hudson Terminal (today's World Trade Center) in Manhattan, while the GG (predecessor to current G service) ran as a shuttle service between Queens Plaza and Nassau Avenue on the IND Crosstown Line. The station's northbound platform was temporarily closed in June 2023 for structural improvements.

This underground station has four tracks and two side platforms. The station is served by the R except at night, the M only on weekdays during the day, and by the E and F during the night. The E and F use the two center express tracks to bypass this station during the day. The next stop to the west is Queens Plaza for R and nighttime E trains, and 21st Street–Queensbridge for M and nighttime F trains. The next stop to the east is Steinway Street. The station's tile band is purple with a black border and name tablets have "36TH ST." in white lettering on a black background and purple border. Small directional and name signs are tiled in white lettering on a black background under the tile band and name tablets. The tile band was part of a color-coded tile system used throughout the IND. The tile colors were designed to facilitate navigation for travelers going away from Lower Manhattan. As such, the purple tiles used at the 36th Street station were originally also used at Queens Plaza, the next express station to the west, while a different tile color

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