Far Rockaway (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=Far Rockaway
style=LIRR

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address=Nameoke Street and Redfern Avenue, off Central Avenue
Far Rockaway, New York.
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NYCS-bull-small|A @ Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue
MTA Long Island Bus
MTA Bus
Rockaway Car Service
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opened=July 29, 1869Vincent F. Seyfried, , © 1961]
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rebuilt=July 15 1890, 1958
electrified=1904
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Far Rockaway is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York, United States. The station is located at Nameoke Street and Redfern Avenue, and is 23.0 miles (37 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, and mean travel time is 56 minutes, although most off - peak trains require a transfer for service to Penn Station.

As the Far Rockaway Branch loops back through Nassau County and is in zone 4, this station is not eligible for the CityTicket program.

History

The Far Rockaway Branch had originally been part of a loop that traveled along the existing route, continuing through the Rockaway Peninsula and heading on a trestle across Jamaica Bay through Queens where it reconnected with other branches. Frequent fires and maintenance problems led the LIRR to abandon the Queens portion of the route, which was acquired by the city to become the IND Rockaway Line, with service provided by the A train. The line was divided with the portions from Mott Avenue becoming part of the subway system and the Far Rockaway station becoming the terminus of the LIRR branch. [ [http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/rockaway.html IND Rockaway Branch/Jamaica Bay Crossing] , accessed June 14, 2006]

Bus & Rail Connections

New York City Subway
*Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue station on the IND Rockaway Line (NYCS Rockaway) (3 blocks west).

MTA Long Island Bus
*N31: Far Rockaway-Hempstead
*N32: Far Rockaway-Hempstead
*N33: Far Rockaway-Long Beach [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=099 LIRR station information for Far Rockaway] , Long Island Rail Road. Accessed June 11, 2007.]

MTA Bus
*Q22: Roxbury-Far Rockaway Subway Station.
*Q22A: Far Rockaway Subway Station-Bayswater
*Q113: Far Rockaway-Jamaica

References

External links

* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=099 LIRR station information for Far Rockaway]
* [http://subwaynut.com/lirr/farrockaway/index.html Far Rockaway Station (The SubwayNut)]
*Arrt's Arrchives
** [http://www.arrts-arrchives.com/images3/frstaval.jpgOld Far Rockaway Station (c. 1905)]
** [http://www.arrts-arrchives.com/images2/frfwtwr.jpg"FW" Tower (1907)]