Queensboro Plaza is an actual place in New York City, but is an elevated subway platform that lacks tilework, which is usually only seen in underground subway stations.In the Beneath the Planet of the Apes novelization, the Queensboro Plaza is spelled Queensborough.It was at that moment, that he realized that the 'alien' world he thought he had discovered was actually his home planet - Earth.

He then found a moldering placard attached to a wall identifying the Queensboro Plaza. As Brent progressed, he doubted the tunnel was created by geological formations, then found a sign reading 'ELEPHONE', which partially obscured sign advertising a pay phone, which was now out of service. They first entered the tunnel to hide from a gorilla solder on patrol under the impression it was a natural cave. A time-lost astronaut named John Brent and a mute human female named Nova explored the dilapidated passageways of the Plaza subway tunnel. In the late 40th century, large sections of the Queensboro Plaza were found intact, partially buried beneath a mountain of rubble.

Queensboro plaza station