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The Rockaway Boulevard station is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of Rockaway Boulevard, Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards, and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, it is served by the A train at all times and the Rockaway Park Shuttle during summer weekends.
The Q41 runs between the Rockaway Boulevard station and 109th Avenue. The Q40 runs between 142nd and 143rd Streets. Westbound Q112 buses run from 99th Street to the Rockaway Boulevard station, where it terminates. Under the Redesign, a new route would also terminate at the Rockaway Boulevard station, but provide service from Linden Boulevard.
The system's 472 stations qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND).
In a 1940 plan, which was revised in 1945, the IND Fulton Street Line would connect to the IND Rockaway Line in a similar manner to the 1939 plan, via an extension of the subway under Pitkin Avenue. The line, east of Euclid Avenue, would be 4 tracks, with local stations at 76th Street and 84th Street, and an express station at Cross Bay Boulevard.
Most of the Rockaway Line dates back to the 1880s when it was operated as the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad; [11] the Far Rockaway station had been in operation since 1869 as part of the South Side Railroad of Long Island. [12] In 1892, the line first saw service by the Long Island Rail Road from its Atlantic Branch.
Rockaway Boulevard is South Ozone Park's main business strip. There is also a high concentration of small businesses along Liberty Avenue, which is also one of South Ozone Park's main source of revenue. South Ozone Park is located in Queens Community District 10 and its ZIP Code is 11420. [1]
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When it opened on April 9, 1936, Rockaway Avenue was the terminal for IND Fulton Street Line. [2] During this time, there was a diamond crossover between the express tracks north of the station, and trains stub ended here. Between the express and local tracks in the area of the crossover were extra columns to support the subway ceiling to make ...