Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (IND Fulton Street Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Fulton Street Line
service = Fulton far east
platforms = 1 island platform
tracks = 2
borough = Queens
connection = Q10 bus to JFK Int'l Airport
open_date = September 25, 1915cite 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]
north_line = IND Fulton Street Line
north_local_station = 111th Street
north_local_service = Fulton far east local
north_express_station = Rockaway Boulevard
north_express_service = Fulton far east express
south_custom_station = (Terminal)

Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard is an elevated 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. Despite its name, the station is not actually located in Ozone Park, but rather in the adjacent neighborhood of Richmond Hill.

This station is one of the three southern terminals for the NYCS|A service. Although this is a "south" terminal in track direction (considering Eighth Avenue in Manhattan as north–south), Liberty Avenue underneath runs geographically WSW–ENE, so a train approach the "south" is actually travelling ENE, or more north than south.

The tracks at the geographic north end of the station end in bumper blocks. At the geographic south end of the station, the line splits from two tracks to three. The middle express track is not currently used in revenue service.

The full-time entrance is at the geographic north end of the station. The exit at the opposite end has HEET access, with a mezzanine that leads to 116th street, with various offices and transit employee facilities. This mezzanine was renovated by an in-house contract in 1999. Tile colors here are light beige with dark green accents, installed in 1997.

This is one of six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens that were originally constructed as part of the BMT's portion of the Dual Contracts System. The stations from 80th Street–Hudson Street to Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard opened on September 25, 1915 as an extension of the Fulton Street Elevated Line. The connection to the BMT was severed on April 26, 1956, with a new connection to the IND Fulton Street Line opening on April 29, 1956. The Fulton Street Elevated west of Hudson Street was closed, and eventually demolished.

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. [cite web |url=http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/bmt_1924.gif|title=BMT Lines, Rapid Transit Division |accessdate=2007-11-09 |year=1924 |format=GIF] By 1948, "Lefferts" and "119" were shown in equal sizes, [cite web |url=http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1948.gif|title=Rapid Transit Lines of the New York City Transit System |accessdate=2007-11-09 |year=1948 |format=GIF] and by 1959 the name was shown as "119 St–Lefferts". [cite web |url=http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1959.gif|title=Official New York City Subway Map and Station Guide |accessdate=2007-11-09 |year=1959 |format=GIF] Lefferts Avenue was later renamed Lefferts Boulevard, and the station appears as "Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard on the current official map. [cite web |url=http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf |title=MTA New York City Subway with bus, railroad, and ferry connections |accessdate=2007-11-09 |month=August| year=2007 |format=PDF |publisher=Metropolitan Transporation Authority ]

Bus connections

*Q10 to JFK Airport
*Q112

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?217:1814|IND Fulton Street Line|Lefferts Boulevard
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/aleff.htm A Train]