Looking down an escalator from the mezzanine level to one of the subway platforms at Howard Beach. The station's mezzanine has that modern airport feel with lots of glass everywhere all over the building.
Looking down 103rd Street approaching Howard Beach station, the sidewalk next to a wall that separates it from the Rockaway-bound platform that is at a grade now has some ivy growing on it.
Looking down the Rockaway-bound platform at Howard Beach, with one of the unusual and not quite normal exit signs pointing towards the High Entrance/Exit Gates that lead directly to Coleman Square.
Each platform at Howard Beach has an ultra modern canopy with no columns on the platform to hold the metal structure up.
A Far Rockaway-bound R38 A train enters Howard Beach.
Signs for the Shuttle Bus covers those for Airtrain on the normal Rockaway-bound and now discharge only platform
Getting off the Shuttle bus beneath the AirTrain station cones try and designate a path
Please pay your fare for the Subway and please pay $7.50 to walk through the subway station for AirTrain instead of using the escalators directly up from the bus loop that lead to AirTrain within fare control
This van is acting as the token booth
Three temporary turnstiles from the shuttle buses one still has a TurboTurnstile sticker
Looking through the No Entry Gates to the 3 turnstiles
The large Emergency Exit Only sign hasn't changed outside the temporary turnstiles
The three propped open Emergency Exit Gates and temporary bank of turnstiles because the subway through Jamaica Bay is still closed
Walking to the Howard Beach Station, looking across the subway tracks to Shuttle Buses in the JFK Parking lot, the buses have less than two hours of live left after running for nearly seven months non-stop to and from Far Rockaway
Approaching the streetside entrance to Howard Beach-JFK
The direct entrance from the street to the Rockaway-bound platform at Coleman Square
An A train arrives to discharge its passengers and run without them to and from Far Rockaway in stimulated service before regular service resumes in an hour and a half
A 1956 Rockaway Here We Come! historic photo and lots of press
Another MTA publicity 1956 Rockaway Here We Come Photo Reprint, passengers await the R1-9 Museum train with a reproduction
Sign that service will be restored at noon as people wait for the dignitary train
