[3][5][6] The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million.

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.

[23][24] Both platforms have royal purple I-beam columns at regular intervals with every other one having the standard black station sign plate with white lettering.

[citation needed] The I-beam piers are located every 15 feet (4.6 m) and support girders above the platforms.

The outer walls of this trough are composed of columns, spaced approximately every 5 feet (1.5 m) with concrete infill between them.

[27] The fare control areas on the Forest Hills-bound side are un-staffed and on small mezzanines above the platforms that are connected to each other.

[27] There are route selector punch boxes on the southbound platform, for the connection to the IND 63rd Street Line (currently used by the F train from the express tracks) west of the station.

East of this station, the express tracks dive down to a lower level and make a direct route to Roosevelt Avenue along Northern Boulevard while the local tracks turn north into Steinway Street and then east under Broadway.