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| Address | Rockaway Boulevard & Liberty Avenue Ozone Park, NY 11417 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Ozone Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (IND, formerly BMT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IND Fulton Street Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | A (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 25, 1915[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 2,353,592[2] 4.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 195 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | 88th Street: A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | 104th Street (local): A Ozone Park – Lefferts Boulevard (express): no regular service Aqueduct – North Conduit Avenue (Rockaway): A |
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Rockaway Boulevard is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Rockaway Boulevard, Woodhaven Boulevard/Cross Bay Boulevard, and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, it is served by the A train at all times.
This station has two side platforms and three tracks with the middle track not used in revenue service. The platforms have beige windscreens and green and brown canopies.
This station has two station-houses with the full-time one at the east (railroad south) end. Single staircases from each platform go down to the elevated station-house beneath the tracks. Inside are a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside of fare control, two staircases lead to either side of Liberty Avenue at Woodhaven/Cross Bay Boulevard.
The other station-house at the west (railroad north) end is also elevated and beneath the tracks, but unstaffed. It contains two HEET turnstiles, a staircase to each platform, and two staircases to either side of Liberty Avenue at 96th Street. The wooden staircase landings have a high exit-only turnstile to allow passengers to exit the system without having to go through the station-house.
Just to the east of this station, the IND Rockaway Line branches off from the Fulton Street Line and heads south to the Rockaways, while the Fulton Street Line continues ENE to Lefferts Boulevard; both of these are railroad south.
Rockaway Boulevard was one of the six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street through Ozone Park – Lefferts Boulevard, as well as the current three track elevated structure, built for the BMT Fulton Street Line in 1915 as part of BMT's portion of the Dual Contracts. The connection to the BMT was severed on April 26, 1956, and the IND was extended east (railroad south) from Euclid Avenue via a connecting tunnel and new intermediate station at Grant Avenue, with the new service beginning on April 29, 1956.