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Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue (IND Rockaway Line)
Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue is the eastern terminal station on the New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line. Originally a Long Island Rail Road station, it is the full-time southern terminal for the A train and the easternmost station on the New York City Subway. As of 2014, this station is the busiest of all subway stations in the Rockaway peninsula. The original surface station on this site was opened in 1869; the current elevated station began operation as a subway station on January 16, 1958.
== History ==
The Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road 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 the Rockaway Beach Branch. Far Rockaway station itself was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island on July 29, 1869, then converted into a freight house, when a 2nd station was moved from Ocean Point Station (a.k.a. Cedarhurst Station), remodeled, and opened on October 1, 1881. The 3rd depot opened on July 15, 1890, while the 2nd depot was sold and moved to a private location in October 1890. The surface station featured a large plaza and depot, serving horse-drawn carriages, taxis, and surface trolleys.〔 The Ocean Electric Railway terminated at the station between 1897 and September 2, 1926, and the station served as the headquarters for the Ocean Electric Railway. It also served as the terminus of a Long Island Electric Railway trolley line leading to Jamaica, via New York Avenue (now Guy R. Brewer Boulevard). Following the end of trolley service in November 1933,〔 the depot served buses from Green Bus Lines and Jamaica Buses;〔〔〔 the former Jamaica trolley route became Jamaica Buses' Route B (now the and buses). Around noon on April 10, 1942, the surface station was closed, and a new elevated station on the current concrete trestle was opened as part of the Long Island Rail Road's grade crossing elimination project.
Frequent fires and maintenance problems, the most notorious of which was a fire in May 1950 between The Raunt and Broad Channel Stations,〔 led the LIRR to abandon the Queens portion of the Rockaway Beach/Far Rockaway route. On October 3, 1955, all trackage west of Mott Avenue was acquired by the city and became part of the IND Rockaway Line. Service provided by the A train over the line began in June 1956, with the full western spur to Rockaway Park operational.〔 While the remainder of the line operated, with Beach 25th Street - Wavecrest serving as the eastern spur terminal, a new Far Rockaway subway station was constructed, opening on January 16, 1958.〔 The original site of the LIRR's elevated station and the bus depot, located on the northeast side of Mott Avenue, were replaced with a shopping center and parking lot. The Far Rockaway LIRR station was moved to a grade-level station at Nameoke Street on February 21, 1958 — two blocks from the original station and three blocks from the subway station — becoming the terminus of the Far Rockaway branch.〔〔(IND Rockaway Branch/Jamaica Bay Crossing ), accessed June 14, 2006〕
From 2009 to 2012, renovations took place on the station, replacing the 1950s design of the station house with metallic facades and a dome enclosure, and upgrading several features including staircases and employee areas. Elevators from the station house to the platforms were added, as were yellow tactile warning strips on the platform edges, making the station ADA-accessible. A glass artwork titled ''Respite'' was installed as part of the MTA's Arts for Transit program. The renovated station was unveiled on May 11, 2012, and total cost for the upgrades amounted to $117 million.
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