This little-known station once was part of the Long Island Railroad.
by Rich Watson
Between JFK Airport and the Rockaway Peninsula in southern Queens lies the island of Broad Channel, a largely forgotten corner of New York, comparable to Roosevelt Island or City Island in the Bronx. Its lone subway outpost, for the A train, is busiest in the summer, when beachcombers come and go from Rockaway Beach.
Once upon a time, though, the station was for not the MTA, but the Long Island Railroad.
