{"nrhp_refnum":"05000672","name":"Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Beneath Broadway at 82nd St. and 45th Ave. and Elmhurst Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Queens","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.74249177000007,"lon":-73.88174710199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture","Engineering","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An underground subway station on the Queens Boulevard Line beneath Broadway in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, New York, completed in 1936 as part of the Independent (IND) subway system.","why_significant":"The station is significant for transportation, community planning and development, and social history, because the Queens Boulevard Line linked Queens settlements and opened rural areas to urbanization. It is also significant for engineering and architecture as a well-preserved example of simple 1930s Art Deco design with a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station lies beneath Broadway in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens. It opened on December 31, 1936, as part of the city-built Independent Subway System and serves the Queens Boulevard Line. The station has a platform level and a wide upper mezzanine, with multiple street entrances typical of IND design. Interior walls are covered in square white ceramic tile, with a blue tile band, black-and-white mosaic name tablets and geometric Art Deco ventilation grates. Robert Ridgeway served as chief engineer and Aaron Raisman as design engineer. The station is significant for its role in linking Long Island City, Elmhurst and Jamaica, which opened rural parts of Queens to urban growth and made Manhattan workplaces more accessible. It is also valued as a well-preserved example of 1930s Art Deco simplicity, designed for maintenance and efficiency, and it retains a high degree of original material and craftsmanship.","period_of_significance":"1936","architect_builder":"Raisman, Aaron (design engineer); Ridgeway, Robert (chief engineer); Snow, Jesse B. (chief engineer)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a subway station, with original tile, signage and railings largely retained alongside some replacement railings, lamps and tile.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.090151-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000672.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000672/c0c4bab0a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000672/c0c4bab0a8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Harrison Leong","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elmhurst_Avenue_-_Manhattan_bound_platform.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Harrison Leong</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elmhurst_Avenue_-_Manhattan_bound_platform.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314474","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmhurst_Avenue_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2200193"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/elmhurst-avenue-subway-station-ind-05000672/"}