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A sign announcing Rockaway Line services effective June 28, 1956, when Rockaway Line subway service began. The Rockaway Shuttle started operating on June 28, 1956. During its early years, it essentially provided non-rush hour and weekend service between Euclid Avenue and either Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue or Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street.
QueensRail Corp, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by the Queens Public Transit Committee in 2016 to promote better transit in Queens and specifically reusing the Rockaway Beach Branch for transit. [104] In contrast to the Queensway, which was conceived as a park project, QueensRail was conceived as a transportation project. [105]
Service to Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park ran through Valley Stream, while service on the Rockaway Beach Branch terminated at Hamilton Beach. The line was then purchased by the New York City Board of Transportation in 1952, and the line south of Ozone Park was taken out of service in June 1955 to allow for the line's conversion to subway service.
A bus stop at Flatbush/Utica Avenues in Brooklyn, serving the Q35 and other routes. The Q35 bus route operates between Midwood, Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College subway station, served by the 2 and 5 trains, and Rockaway Park, Queens at the Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street subway station, served by the A and S 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 and ten daily rush-hour A trains in the peak direction.
The Howard Beach–JFK Airport station is a subway/people mover station complex located at Coleman Square between 159th Avenue and 103rd Street in Howard Beach, Queens.The New York City Subway portion of the station is on the IND Rockaway Line and is served by the Rockaway branch of the A train at all times and the Rockaway Park Shuttle during summer weekends.
The station was purchased by New York City on October 3, 1955, along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch and Far Rockaway Branch west of Far Rockaway, after a fire on the line's crossing over Jamaica Bay in 1950. [4] Now operated by the New York City Transit Authority, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June ...
The station was purchased by New York City on October 3, 1955, along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch and Far Rockaway Branch west of Far Rockaway, after a fire on the line's crossing over Jamaica Bay in 1950. [7] Now operated by the New York City Transit Authority, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June ...