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75 Av

Forest Hills, Queens

75th Avenue; the stop was first named after Puritan Avenue.

Early plans called the stop ‘Queens Boulevard–Puritan Avenue’: Puritan Avenue was the name of 75th Road in Forest Hills Gardens. The station was originally 75th Avenue–Puritan Avenue, was referred to as Puritan Avenue for its first few years, and the old name stayed on platform signs into the 1990s. In Queens, avenues and roads run east–west, streets north–south.

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Sources

  1. Go through history by the numbers of some Queens neighborhood street names QNS (Ridgewood Times)
  2. 75th Avenue station Wikipedia

This text was written with the help of AI from the sources above and checked against them.