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88th Street station - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 40°40′47″N 73°51′03″W / 40.679857°N 73.850968°W

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88 Street

New York City Subway station (rapid transit)

Brooklyn-bound platform

Station statistics

Address

88th Street & Liberty Avenue
Queens, New York

Borough

Queens

Locale

Ozone Park

Coordinates

40°40′47″N 73°51′03″W / 40.679857°N 73.850968°W

Division

B (IND, formerly BMT)^[1]

Line

IND Fulton Street Line
BMT Fulton Street Line (formerly)

Services

A (all times)

Structure

Elevated

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

3 (2 in regular service)

Other information

Opened

September 25, 1915; 109 years ago^[2]

Opposite-
direction
transfer

Yes

Former/other names

88th Street–Boyd Avenue

Traffic

2023

576,816^[3]

8.6%

Rank

367 out of 423^[3]

Services

Preceding station	New York City Subway			Following station
80th Street toward Inwood–207th Street		Local		Rockaway Boulevard toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue or Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard

Location
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Track layout

Legend

					to 80th Street






					to Rockaway Boulevard

Street map

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

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

History

88th Street was one of the six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street through Ozone Park–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.^[2]^[4] 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.^[4]^[5]^[6]

The station was completely renovated in 2014.^[7]

Station layout

Platform level	Side platform
	Westbound	← toward Inwood–207th Street (80th Street) ← late night shuttle toward Euclid Avenue (80th Street)
	Peak-direction express	→ No regular service
	Eastbound	→ toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue, Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard or Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street (Rockaway Boulevard) → → late night shuttle toward Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (Rockaway Boulevard) →
	Side platform
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, Metrocard machines
Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance

This elevated station, opened on September 25, 1915, has two side platforms and three tracks with the center track not used in revenue service.^[8] The A train stops here at all times; a shuttle train from Euclid Avenue to Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard also serves the station during late nights.^[9] The station is between Rockaway Boulevard to the east (railroad south) and 80th Street to the west (railroad north).^[10]

Both platforms have beige windscreens for their length and brown canopies with green frames and support columns except for a small section at either ends. Station signs display Boyd Avenue, which was the original name of this station.

The 2015 artwork at this station, MORPHING88, was designed by Haresh Lalvani.^[11]

Exits

This station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house below the platforms at the east (railroad south) end. Inside fare control, there is one staircase to each platform, a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, and a turnstile bank. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two street stairs going down to either eastern corners of 88th Street and Liberty Avenue.^[12]

This station formerly had another entrance/exit at the west (railroad north) end that went down to 86th Street. Each platform still has a closed-off staircase to the station house beneath the tracks, but the station house has no staircases to the street.

References

^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "New Elevated Line Opened for Queens" (PDF). The New York Times. September 26, 1915. Retrieved September 28, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Sparberg, Andrew J. (October 1, 2014). From a Nickel to a Token: The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-6190-1.
^ "First Leg of Rockaways Transit Opened at Cost of $10,154,702" (PDF). The New York Times. April 30, 1956. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
^ Freeman, Ira Henry (June 28, 1956). "Rockaway Trains to Operate Today" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
^ "MTA | news | Queens-bound 88 St and 104 St a Line Stations to Close for Three Months for Renewal". Archived from the original on May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
^ Dougherty, Peter (2020). Tracks of the New York City Subway 2020 (16th ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 1056711733.
^ "A Subway Timetable, Effective December 17, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
^ "Artwork: "MORPHING88" (Haresh Lalvani)".
^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Woodhaven" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 88th Street (IND Fulton Street Line).

nycsubway.org – IND Fulton: 88th Street-Boyd Avenue
Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
The Subway Nut — 88th Street – Boyd Avenue Pictures Archived June 15, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
88th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

Stations of the New York City Subway, by service

Eighth Avenue Express

Lefferts branch	104th Street 111th Street Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
Rockaways branches	Aqueduct Racetrack Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue Howard Beach–JFK Airport Broad Channel
Far Rockaway branch	Beach 67th Street Beach 60th Street Beach 44th Street Beach 36th Street Beach 25th Street Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue
Rockaway Park branch	Beach 90th Street Beach 98th Street Beach 105th Street Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street

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