of a building. There is also an overpass leading to Queens Plaza South. In popular culture Queensboro Plaza is featured in a defining moment in the film Beneath the Planet of the Apes. The protagonist astronaut ("Brent") unknowingly enters the ruins of an underground station; upon seeing the words "Queensboro Plaza" in tiles, and finding an advertisement for the New York Summer Festival, he realizes that he is indeed on Earth and not another planet, and that New York City has been destroyed in a nuclear war. In reality, Queensboro Plaza is an elevated station and has no tilework. The station is also featured in the Seinfeld episode entitled "The Cigar Store Indian", as the location of a renowned gyro stall, and again incorrectly depicted as an underground station, on an IRT Lexington Avenue Line train. The station is also incorrectly depicted as an underground station in an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The station and nearby MetLife Plaza were a regular CG composite as location shots between scenes in ABC series Ugly Betty. The station also appears briefly in the season 2 opening sequence of HBO political drama The Newsroom. The station is also shown in the TV show The King of Queenss theme song, which shows a Redbird 7 train entering the station's upper level. The station also appears on Sesame Street in a looking for triangles film with Maria (Sonia Manzano). A shot of the station appears in the 2020 Pixar movie Soul. Gallery References External links The Subway Nut — Queensboro Plaza Pictures MTA's Arts For Transit — Queensboro Plaza Queens Plaza North entrance from Google Maps Street View Queens Plaza South entrance from Google Maps Street View Upper level from Google Maps Street View Lower level from Google Maps Street View IRT Flushing Line stations BMT Astoria Line stations New York City Subway transfer stations New York City Subway stations in Queens, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916 Railway stations in the United States opened in 1917 Long Island City 1916 establishments in New York City 1917 establishments in New York City