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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.
During summer weekends, to eliminate an additional transfer and thus ease beach access, the Rockaway Park Shuttle is typically extended four stations north of Broad Channel to Rockaway Boulevard, the easternmost station shared by Rockaway-bound and Lefferts Boulevard-bound A trains.
The Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street station is the western terminal station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located on Beach 116th Street near Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Beach, Queens. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times.
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.
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 ...
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.
Between 1985 and December 1989, the route's terminal loop was changed so that buses ran via Rockaway Boulevard, 145th Street, 135th Avenue, 140th Street and Rockaway Boulevard again, instead of its previous route via Rockaway Boulevard, 143rd Street, 135th Avenue and 142nd Street. [185] [121] Terminal loop changed multiple times during the 1980s.