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The next year, the MTA announced plans to reconstruct much of the Rockaway Line on the Rockaway peninsula. The first phase would entail repairing the South Channel Bridge and Hammels Wye structure. [41] The project entailed demolishing and completely reconstructing about 1,600 feet (490 m) of viaduct. [42]
In the famous car chase scene in the film The French Connection, the chased train of R42s crashes into an R32. [52] An R32 is featured in Men in Black II, featuring an alien entering a tunnel. Once there, it attacks and devours most of a subway train (which is a combination of R32 and R38 cars) until Agent J destroys it.
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.
Formerly designated 9, before the line became an IRT line, and SS. Lefferts Boulevard Shuttle Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard: Euclid Avenue: Operates concurrently with regular A service to Far Rockaway. Designated (gray A) on the late night map and (blue S) in the schedule and on older trains. Newer trains use A train sign programs for Euclid Av ...
Independent Subway mosaics sign at 14th Street station on the Sixth Avenue Line, before V train service at this station was replaced by M train service. Until 1940, it was known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS), Independent Subway System (ISS), or Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad.
The Beach 44th Street station (signed as Beach 44th Street–Frank Avenue) is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times until May 2025. [3] Under normal service patterns, it is served by the A train at all times.
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.
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 ...