Did the A train ever go to Jamaica?

It looks like it got so close.

gprimr1 wrote:It looks like it got so close.

No, it never did. The closest is Ozone Park (Lefferts Blvd) from the old BMT Fulton St line.

On the IND, Jamaica was (and still is) E and F train territory.

Lefferts, as long as it's been open, it's been the last stop.

You could argue it does as enter the "town of Jamaica", one of Queen's five "Postal Towns". As far as the Postal Service cares, Queens doesn't exist. If you want to mail a letter to someone in Manhattan, it's New York, NY. In Brooklyn, The Bronx and Staten Island, it's the boro name. For me as a Queens resident, it has to say the neighborhood post office (Ridgewood) or the town (Flushing). Any zip code that starts with 114 is routed through the Jamaica main office, and a letter mailed to, say, Aqueduct Racetrack that says "Jamaica, New York" is valid. So the A in queens runs through the pretend towns of Jamaica and Far Rockaway.

Aside from Jamaica (114xx) and Flushing (113xx), the other three are Long Island City (111xx), Far Rockaway (116xx) and Floral Park (110xx)

Kamen Rider wrote:You could argue it does as enter the "town of Jamaica", one of Queen's five "Postal Towns". As far as the Postal Service cares, Queens doesn't exist. If you want to mail a letter to someone in Manhattan, it's New York, NY. In Brooklyn, The Bronx and Staten Island, it's the boro name. For me as a Queens resident, it has to say the neighborhood post office (Ridgewood) or the town (Flushing). Any zip code that starts with 114 is routed through the Jamaica main office, and a letter mailed to, say, Aqueduct Racetrack that says "Jamaica, New York" is valid. So the A in queens runs through the pretend towns of Jamaica and Far Rockaway. Aside from Jamaica (114xx) and Flushing (113xx), the other three are Long Island City (111xx), Far Rockaway (116xx) and Floral Park (110xx)

In some cases, both the local community and historic "town" name can be used as Woodside (11377), Jackson Heights (11372), Elmhurst (11373), East Elmhurst (11369/11370), Corona (11368) for example can be used as well as a Flushing address.

that's what I said...

I send mail to Riverdale (in the Bronx) all the time and it gets there

Interesting. It almost looks like you could connect the A to the E and create a giant loop.

Do one better, the E ran that way as well from the opeing of the Rockaway Line until 1976 when it was cut to WTC full time (save construction and emergencies)

Kamen Rider wrote:Do one better, the E ran that way as well from the opeing of the Rockaway Line until 1976 when it was cut to WTC full time (save construction and emergencies)

The E ran to 179th St. at that time, so its terminals were farther apart. It was a monster of a run, and was express from Queens Plaza to 179th St. only.

I grew up in Ozone Park. The E used to run from the Rockaways. It ran express from Eculid Ave through Brooklyn during rush hours. The A was the local.