88th Street (IND Fulton Street Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 88th Street–Boyd Avenue

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bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Fulton Street Line
service = Fulton east local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 3
borough = Queens
open_date = September 25, 1915 [cite news|title=New Elevated Line Opened for Queens|publisher="The New York Times"|date=September 26, 1915|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B01E4D6103CE733A25755C2A96F9C946496D6CF|accessdate=2007-09-28|format=PDF]
south_station = Rockaway Boulevard
south_line = IND Fulton Street Line
south_service = Fulton east local
north_station = 80th Street
north_line = IND Fulton Street Line
north_service = Fulton east local

88th Street (signed as 88th Street–Boyd Avenue) is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located on Liberty Avenue at 88th Street, it is served by the NYCS service|A train at all times.

The station has the same layout as 80th Street. The now closed track north (geographic W) exit leads to 86th Street and the track south (geographic E) to 88th Street. Station signs display the name "Boyd Avenue", which was the original name of 88th Street.

88th Street was one of the six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street–Hudson Street through Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard, as well as the current 3-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 (track direction south) from Euclid Avenue via a connecting tunnel and new intermediate station at Grant Avenue, with the new service beginning on April 29, 1956.

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?217:717|IND Fulton|88th Street/Boyd Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/aleff.htm A Lefferts]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/arock.htm A Rockwaway]