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Howard Beach-JFK Airport was recently completely rebuilt in order to incorporate the connection to Air Train that exists in the station's mezzanine. Before AirTrain opened in 2003, the station wasn't very poorly designed for travelers transferring to the Port Authority Shuttle Buses to the terminals. Formerly travelers trying to reach the airport terminals from Rockaway-bound trains had to get off and use the overpass at the main station house at the southern end of the platform and than walk the length of the uptown (Manhattan-bound platform) to another station house (at its northern end) and exit built at street level in-order to transfer to the shuttle buses. Today the transfer to AirTrain is much more easy from the completely rebuilt and ultra-modern looking station platforms. The station has a large glass, modern mezzanine above the tracks with stairs, escalators and elevators down to each platform. The AirTrain entrance is to one side with its fare gates that require the five dollar MetroCard AirTrain fare, there are some AirTrain fare gates that lead directly from the subway portion of the mezzanine to AirTrain deducting seven dollars from people transferring from AirTrain to the subway, unlimited ride MetroCard holders can use other fare gates with a pay-per-ride MetroCard to completely leave the AirTrain and subway systems and reach some regular subway turnstiles to enter the subway system. For community access to the west of the station, there are high entrance turnstiles to Coleman Square from the Rockaway-bound platform, as well as elevators and stairs down from the mezzanine area to it. The platform signs also have a bit of an unusual design on account of the AirTrain Station, in addition for some reason the platforms are offset a bit with the Manhattan-bound platform farther south than the Rockaway-bound one.
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(howard_beach_jfka1) R33 #9017 stopped at Howard Beach on the IRT SMEE to the sea Fan Trip.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka2) The number plates of two former redbirds (R33 Married Pairs #9069 & #9068), that are now repainted in other colors that represent the different liveries the redbirds had during their long lifetimes beneath the A train service times sign on the Rockaway-bound platform at Howard beach.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka3) R33 #9036 that was never overhauled, still in its 1964 Worlds Fair Livery stops at Howard Beach on the SMEE to the Sea Fan Trip.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka4) The SMEE train with the ultra modern Howard Beach JFK sign along the glass mezzanine where AirTrain's terminal is.
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(howard_beach_jfka5) The SMEE museum train stops underneath the large Howard Beach JFK sign on the side of the large glass mezzanine that is the AirTrain terminal.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka6) The large Howard Beach JFK sign that marks the entrance to AirTrain JFK
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka7) Looking across towards the AirTrain JFK platforms at Howard Beach.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka8) R44 #5372 and a Manhattan-bound A train stop at Howard Beach.
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(howard_beach_jfka9) Looking across to a standard wooden subway bench at Howard Beach-JFK.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka10) A Far Rockaway-bound R44 A train enters Howard Beach-JFK Airport.
19 June, 2004 (howard_beach_jfka11) Looking down 103rd Street along the wall of the Rockaway-bound platform at Howard Beach.
30 March, 2005 (howard_beach_jfka12) A sign at entrance from Coleman Square for the two elevators up to the mezzanine level at Howard Beach.
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(howard_beach_jfka13) Howard Beach has not one but two elevators that lead from street level a Coleman Square up to the large mezzanine area.
30 March, 2005 (howard_beach_jfka14) The two High Entrance/Exit Turnstile and one High Exit turnstile that lead street level at Coleman Square to the Rockaway-bound platform at Howard Beach.
30 March, 2005 (howard_beach_jfka15) Looking through the fence from the walkway along the tracks at R44 #5465 stopped at Howard Beach-JFK Airport on a Manhattan-bound train. The station's two platforms are staggered from one another.
30 March, 2005 (howard_beach_jfka16) A narrow wooden walkway is parallel to the tracks at Howard Beach over the swampland in Jamaica Bay, providing access to the small community of Hamilton Beach.
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