61st Street-Woodside Station (Flushing Line)

This is the 61st Street – Woodside station in Queens at sundown. It is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway located at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. It opened on April 21, 1917. This station has two island platforms and three tracks. The two outer tracks are used for the full-time 7 local service while the bidirectional center track is used for rush hour peak-direction 7 express service.

7 Train (International Express) To Woodside, Queens

The 7 subway train from midtown Manhattan to Flushing, Queens is sometimes called the "International Express." It serves a span of interconnected neighborhoods where immigrants from all over the world live. In Woodside, the area's main commercial district is along Roosevelt Avenue, under the elevated tracks, where diverse ethnic restaurants mix with commuter-oriented businesses, cargo and travel agencies, financial services and jewelry stores. It may not be the prettiest part of the city but the area is so diverse, so New York. 

Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens

This is a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. Above Roosevelt Avenue is the overhead subway and train (the Long Island Railroad stops in Woodside). Woodside, a neighborhood in the western part of Queens. This particular neighborhood along Roosevelt Avenue is filled with many cultural restaurants including popular Thai, Filipino, Colombian and Ecuadorian eateries. A "Little Manila" stretches from 63rd to 71st Streets at the strip of Roosevelt Avenue. 

Jollibee in Queens, New York's First Branch of the McDonald's of the Philippines

Jollibee is a fast-food chain from the Philippines that opened its first New York branch six months ago beneath the No.7 train tracks in Woodside, Queens. Also known as the McDonald's of the Philippines, Jollibee is now the largest Filipino food company. According to food experts, Jollibee owes its success in the Philippines to the fact that it caters to local tastes, unlike McDonald's. Gene Gonzalez, a restaurateur and food consultant who runs the Manila-based Center for Asian Culinary Studies, said Jollibee adjusted its burger to taste like the meatballs that Filipinos like. "Unlike Americans, Filipinos do not like pure beef patties, which can be bland. They like their burgers to taste like meatballs, which are stronger-flavored, with flavor extenders - spices, garlic, onion, celery," he said. Jollibee is located at 62-29 Roosevelt Avenue at 63rd Street in Woodside, Queens.