63rd Drive–Rego Park (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

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63rd Drive–Rego Park
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services	E (late nights) G (nights after 9:00 p.m. and weekends) R (all except late nights) V (weekdays until midnight)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other
Borough	Queens
Opened	December 31, 1936
Connection	Q72 to LaGuardia Airport
Next north	67th Avenue: E G R V
Next south	Woodhaven Boulevard: E G R V

63rd Drive–Rego Park is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, located at 63rd Drive and Queens Boulevard in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens.

This local station has two side platforms and four tracks. The G, R, V, and late-night E services stop on the outer local tracks, while F and daytime E services bypass the station on the center express tracks. There is a full-length mezzanine, but crossover within fare control is only available at the westernmost end. There are four fare control areas: two exit-only areas at the western end (one on each side of Queens Boulevard), a full-time booth at the center, and a part-time booth at the east end. Both booths have stairs to both sides of Queens Boulevard; they also have underpasses allowing pedestrians to avoid crossing on the surface.

The station was opened on December 30, 1936, as part of the extension of the Queens Boulevard Line east from Roosevelt Avenue to Union Turnpike. In accordance with a 1940 Independent Subway expansion proposal, bellmouths were constructed into the Queens Boulevard tunnel walls just east of the station. These trackways were to lead to the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Line, which would have been acquired and converted for subway service. In anticipation of this expansion, mosaic signs saying "Rockaway Park" were installed in the mezzanine; a similar sign reading "Jamaica and Rockaway" was placed in the mezzanine at 65th Street. The New York City Transit Authority would succeed in assimilating the Rockwaway Line in 1952, but it was connected to the IND Fulton Street Line at Rockaway Boulevard, rather than to the Queens Boulevard Line at 63rd Drive.