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Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street (IND Rockaway Line)

Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street
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New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Station statistics
Address Beach 116th Street between Rockaway Beach Boulevard & Newport Avenue
Queens, NY 11694
Borough Queens
Locale Rockaway Park
Coordinates 40°34′51″N 73°50′10″W / 40.580725°N 73.83618°W / 40.580725; -73.83618Coordinates: 40°34′51″N 73°50′10″W / 40.580725°N 73.83618°W / 40.580725; -73.83618
Division B (IND, formerly LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch)
Line IND Rockaway Line
Services       A rush hours, peak direction (rush hours, peak direction)
      S all times (all times)
Transit connections Bus transport MTA Bus: Q22, Q35, Q53, QM16
Structure At-grade
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2 (excludes 8 yard tracks adjacent to the station)
Other information
Opened May 1882; 134 years ago (May 1882) (LIRR station)
Rebuilt June 28, 1956; 60 years ago (June 28, 1956) (as a Subway station)
Accessible This station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 255,542 Increase 10.4%
Rank 417 out of 425
Station succession
Next north Beach 105th Street: A rush hours, peak direction S all times
Next south (Terminal): A rush hours, peak direction S all times


Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 north Howard Beach–JFK Airport: A rush hours, peak direction (via same-platform transfer at Broad Channel outside rush hours)
Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue (via Hammels Wye): no regular service
Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 south none: A rush hours, peak direction S all times

Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street 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 only A trains.

The station is at ground level. There are two tracks and an island platform. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the west (railroad south) end of the platform.

On either side of the station are tracks leading to the Rockaway Park Yard. Originally, terminal tracks with low-level platforms occupied the yard area during the LIRR years. The area of the current high-level platform was part of the LIRR depot yard.

Because the entrance is at street level, the station is ADA accessible without the use of an elevator or ramps. The station house is made of concrete with windows and plywood walls and a brick exterior. It also has an entrance leading to an adjacent restaurant. An examination of the station house shows the former ticket windows, which were used when the line was part of the LIRR. The station houses Transit Police District 23, which was moved to the station in June 1977. A new police facility was opened on September 18, 2009. A NYCDOT municipal parking lot lies just north of the station.

The station was originally built in 1882 as a Long Island Rail Road station on the Rockaway Beach Branch, was called Rockaway Beach, and contained a trolley stop for the Ocean Electric Railway, which eventually expanded their line further west to Belle Harbor and Neponsit. In 1899, the station was enlarged in order to accommodate the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company cars, and the name was changed to Rockaway Park.


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