Today, marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of service on what would become known as the Flushing Line, the No.7 line between Queensboro Plaza and 103rd Street-Corona Plaza Stations.

When the line first opened it ran through primarily undeveloped land and farmland. William Jay Governor, the Mayor of New York City from 1909 to 1913, referred to this line as a "Cornfield" line. In fact, it was. What would become Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights between 82nd Street and Junction Boulevard was literally a trail through a cornfield.

But the whole point in building the No.7 Line and other lines like it was to extend residential and commercial development beyond densely populated and developed downtown areas in each borough. And it worked. The Queens can be largely credited to the opening of the stations of this line to 103rd Street in 1917 and its further extension to Main Street in Flushing in 1928. Connections to bus lines from No.7 line stations extend reach all through Central, Northeast and Eastern Queens, as well as to parts of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Nassau County.