Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (IND Fulton Street Line)

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New York City Subway station Lefferts Boulevard
Station information
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other
Borough	Queens
Opened	September 25, 1915^{[citation needed]}
Connection	Q10 bus to JFK Int'l Airport
Next north	Local: 111th Street A
	Express: Rockaway Boulevard no regular service
Next south	(Terminal)

Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, and one of the three southern terminals for the A train. During late nights, all A trains travel to Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue, and a shuttle from Euclid Avenue serves this station.

Although this is a "south" terminal in track direction (considering 8th Avenue in Manhattan as N-S), Liberty Avenue underneath runs geographically WSW - ENE, so a train approach the "south" is actually travelling ENE or more north than south.

The north end HEET access mezzanine leads to 116th street and has various offices and employee facilities. This mezzanine was renovated by an in-house contract in 1999.

Tile colors here are light beige with dark green accents, installed in 1997.

The south end (track direction; geographical direction is approximately ENE) has the bumper block.

Just north (track direction; geographical direction is approximately WSW) of this station, the line splits from two tracks to three.

Despite it's name, the station is not actually located in Ozone Park, rather in the adjacent neighborhood of Richmond Hill.

Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (originally opened as Lefferts Avenue–119th Street) was one of the six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street–Hudson Street through this location, as well as the current 3-track elevated structure, built for the BMT Fulton Street Line in 1915 as part of BMT's portion of the Dual Contracts. The connection to the BMT was severed on April 26, 1956, and the IND was extended east (track direction south) from Euclid Avenue via a connecting tunnel and new intermediate station at Grant Avenue, with the new service beginning on April 29, 1956.