Far Rockaway (LIRR station)

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Far Rockaway

Looking northeast at the station

Station statistics

Address

Nameoke Street and Redfern Avenue, off Central Avenue
Far Rockaway, New York.

Lines

Far Rockaway Branch

Connections

New York City Subway

@ Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue
MTA Long Island Bus
MTA Bus
Rockaway Car Service

Parking

Yes

Other information

Opened

July 29, 1869^[1]

Rebuilt

1958

Electrified

1904

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Services

Preceding station		Long Island Rail Road		Following station

Inwood toward New York terminals		Far Rockaway Branch		Terminus

For the former LIRR station at Mott Avenue, now a subway station, see Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue (IND Rockaway Line).

Far Rockaway is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York, United States. The station is located at Nameoke Street and Redfern Avenue, and is 23.0 miles (37 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.

As the Far Rockaway Branch loops back through Nassau County and is in zone 4, this station is not eligible for the CityTicket program.

1 History
2 Bus & Rail Connections
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The Far Rockaway Branch had originally been part of a loop that traveled along the existing route, continuing through the Rockaway Peninsula and heading on a trestle across Jamaica Bay through Queens where it reconnected with other branches. Frequent fires and maintenance problems led the LIRR to abandon the Queens portion of the route, which was acquired by the city to become the IND Rockaway Line, with service provided by the A train. The line was divided with the portions from Mott Avenue becoming part of the subway system and the Far Rockaway station becoming the terminus of the LIRR branch.^[2]