page_title: Broad Channel station
hierarchical_section_title: Broad Channel station
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the MTA NYC Subway Broad Channel Station.
context_page_description: Broad Channel is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough of Queens. It is served by the A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times, the latter of which originates/terminates here.
  Broad Channel originally opened in 1880 as a Long Island Railroad station. The LIRR discontinued service in 1950 after a fire on the trestle across Jamaica Bay, to the station's north. The station reopened June 28, 1956, as a subway station.
  Broad Channel is one of two New York City Subway stations located on its own island, the other being the Roosevelt Island station in Manhattan. It is also the only subway station serving the island of Broad Channel, which is located in Jamaica Bay and only has about 3,000 residents. Thus it is the least-used in the subway as of 2018, and the second-least-used on weekdays after only Beach 105th Street. However, this station is the only transfer point for riders traveling between Brooklyn and Manhattan and the four other stations served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle.
  North of this station, two additional tracks are located within the right-of-way.
context_section_description: Broad Channel is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough of Queens. It is served by the A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times, the latter of which originates/terminates here.
  Broad Channel originally opened in 1880 as a Long Island Railroad station. The LIRR discontinued service in 1950 after a fire on the trestle across Jamaica Bay, to the station's north. The station reopened June 28, 1956, as a subway station.
  Broad Channel is one of two New York City Subway stations located on its own island, the other being the Roosevelt Island station in Manhattan. It is also the only subway station serving the island of Broad Channel, which is located in Jamaica Bay and only has about 3,000 residents. Thus it is the least-used in the subway as of 2018, and the second-least-used on weekdays after only Beach 105th Street. However, this station is the only transfer point for riders traveling between Brooklyn and Manhattan (which the A train travels to) and the four other stations served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle.
  North of this station, two additional tracks are located within the right-of-way. One of the tracks is used to allow for Rockaway Park Shuttle trains to relay and to go back into service to the Rockaways, while the other track is called the Far Rockaway Test Track. The latter of the two tracks is used to test new subway cars to make sure that they are ready for acceptance into New York City Transit's fleet of subway cars.
caption: Broad Channel station after the post-Hurricane Sandy renovation
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