Lefferts Blvd Shuttle (Late Nights Only)<Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd
Lefferts Blvd is the terminus of what was originally the BMT Liberty Street elevated line when it opened on September 25, 1915 and taken over by the IND Fulton Street Subway trains on April 29, 1956. Like all terminal stations on the subway, it has a layout that is a little different. The station is a two-track stub-terminal with a single island platform. There is a tower at the western end of the platform facing the tracks. A small area between the tower and the beginning of the platform canopy has an old Lefferts Blvd sign and some lampposts still using incandescent bulbs. There are the usual signs along the platform saying which track for the Next Train. It feels like the platform's canopy (that stretches for the entire platform except for the westernmost car) was replaced during a different time period because the columns holing it up look different than any other station on the line.
The station has two exits; one staircase leads down past some crew quarters (one door had now removed sign on it in 2013 for Radio Dispatched: Train Trouble Control) to an unstaffed exit with one with High Entrance Turnstile and a High Exit Turnstile right out in the open directly below the station platform before walkways lead to staircases down to NW and SW corners of Liberty Avenue and 116 Street. At some point between 2013 and 2023 these were replaced by a bank of 3 regular turnstiles
The staffed entrance is at the typical end of the line position, at the eastern end of the platform where three doors on the platform itself opens to a staircase that leads down to a mezzanine area and exits via a street stair down to the NW and SW corners of Lefferts Blvd and Liberty Avenue.
After many years of delays the station finally got full ADA accessibility with elevators opening on January 25, 2018. This project also gave the station a renovation. The project installed two elevators near the NW corner of Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Blvd in the same frosted glass elevator shaft. These elevators don't service the same floors. One goes from the street to the mezzanine, after fare control the other from the mezzanine up to just beyond the end of the platform, where a narrow passageway leads to the actual platform.
Photos 1-19: December 29, 2008; 20-32: September 13, 2013; 33-44: January 9, 2014; 45-93: November 24, 2023; 94: October 11, 2014; 95-98: January 20, 2015
My reflection off a Lefferts Blvd platform sign and some antique incandescent lights that still work on the western end of the platform at Lefferts Blvd.
The most unusual station bench I've scene at any subway station. It is metal and wooden and looks like it belongs in a park, not at a subway station.
The staircase that can be easily closed down to the exit to 116 Street and Liberty Avenue towards the western end of the platform at Lefferts Blvd.
Looking down the narrow island platform at Lefferts Blvd, with the usual janitorial supplies a terminus station has .
A sign and a windscreen on the platform at Lefferts Blvd indicating the ends of the platform for the stations two exits (Lefferts Blvd and Q10 to JFK, or 116 St).
The train service sign is quite long, and says A To 207 Street, except late nights, with a separate section saying Late nights Shuttle to Euclid Av for A local.
The staircase down to the mezzanine for the Lefferts Blvd exit at the very end of the Liberty Avenue el, the train goes no further west.
A R44 A train on layover at Lefferts Blvd.
Another view down the long and narrow island platform at Lefferts Blvd.
An older looking sign on the wall of the staircase down to the mezzanine level at Lefferts Blvd for the Q10 to Kennedy Airport.
The doors out of the mezzanine for the streets of Ozone Park at Lefferts Blvd.
Looking back towards the bank of turnstiles and the token booth at the staffed entrance to Lefferts Blvd.
Another relic of the past at Lefferts Blvd above doors into the station says 'IT'S YOUR SUBWAY-Please help us keep it clean'.
Looking down the sidewalk of Liberty Avenue, before descending the staircase to street level from the Lefferts Blvd exit mezzanine.
The end of Liberty Avenue El is marked by what else but an ad, in this high visibility location (that does have a clock). An entrance to the subway station is also in this photo.
Approaching the 116 Street entrance at Lefferts Blvd from street level.
The staircase up to the unstaffed entrance at 116 St to Lefferts Blvd.
The underpass between the tracks at the unstaffed 116 St entrance to Lefferts Blvd, with passengers using the High Entrance Turnstile to enter the subway system.
Looking beneath the tracks at Lefferts Blvd with the two staircases up to 116 Street visible.
The 116 Street station entrance past some barricades
Lefferts Blvd Shuttle (Late Nights Only)<Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd
Last Updated: November 11, 2023
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