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Rockaway Boulevard is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Rockaway Boulevard, Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards, and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, it is served by the A train at all times, and, for summer weekends in 2016 and 2017 during daytime hours, by the Rockaway Park Shuttle.HistoryRockaway Boulevard 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.On April 8, 1928, two eastbound trains crashed in the station, killing one person and injuring 30.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. Three months later, a connection to the IND Rockaway Line was provided on June 26, 1956, replacing the Long Island Rail Road's long troubled Rockaway Beach Branch.