Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (IND Fulton Street Line)
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Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||
Station house at night, viewed from Lefferts Boulevard and Liberty Avenue
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| Address | Lefferts Boulevard & Liberty Avenue Queens, NY 11419 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||
| Locale | Richmond Hill | ||||||
| Coordinates | 40°41′10″N 73°49′27″W / 40.686203°N 73.82422°WCoordinates: 40°41′10″N 73°49′27″W / 40.686203°N 73.82422°W | ||||||
| Division | B (IND, formerly BMT) | ||||||
| Line | IND Fulton Street Line | ||||||
| Services |
A  (all times) |
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| Transit connections |
 MTA Bus:  Q10, Q112
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||
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| Opened | September 25, 1915 | ||||||
| Former/other names | Lefferts Avenue Lefferts Avenue–119th Street |
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| Passengers (2015) | 2,224,331  1.7% |
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| Rank | 226 out of 425 | ||||||
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| Next north |
111th Street (local): A Rockaway Boulevard (express): no regular service |
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| Next south | (Terminal): A
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Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard is an elevated terminal station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and Liberty Avenue in Queens. It serves as the terminus of the A route's Lefferts Boulevard branch. Despite its name, the station is not actually located in Ozone Park, but rather in the adjacent neighborhood of Richmond Hill.
Lefferts Boulevard was one of the six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street through 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.
The station has gone by a number of different names. It opened as Lefferts Avenue. A 1924 system map portrayed the station as "Lefferts Avenue", with "119th St." shown below the name in parentheses, and in a smaller print. By 1948, "Lefferts" and "119" were shown in equal sizes, and by 1959 the name was shown as "119 St–Lefferts". Lefferts Avenue was later renamed Lefferts Boulevard, and the station appears as "Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard" on the current official map.
In 2014, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority started a renovation project at the Lefferts Boulevard station. The renovated station will include 2 new ADA-accessible elevators (1 outside fare control from street level to mezzanine, and 1 more inside fare control from mezzanine to platform level) at the intersection of Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard. This project is scheduled to be completed in Spring 2017.
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