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New York City Subway station in Queens

On July 5, 1966, the fare on the Aqueduct Special was raised to 75 cents. The fare was raised to $1 on January 4, 1970. The fare was raised from a $1 to $1.50 in February 1972. Later on the fare was lowered back to $1. In October 1966, the NYRA reached its final agreement to cover the $5,000 cost of the maintenance and the operation of the station. The NYRA last made these payments for the 1974 1975 racing season. Beginning on April 15, 1978, during racing season one train ran from 57th Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line to Aqueduct Racetrack, leaving 57th Street at 11 A. M. and arriving at Aqueduct at 11:35 AM. The train left for the return trip after the final race. In September 1978, the JFK Express began service and stopped at this station on racing days. The Aqueduct Specials ceased operation altogether in October 1981. At the time of their discontinuance the fare was $3, and it was being replaced by the more expensive $5 JFK Express fare.

The JFK Express was discontinued in 1990, and the station started to be closed throughout the day. The station reopened on October 22, 1997, for the racing season at Aqueduct Racetrack, following an agreement with the NYRA, which believed that the distance from the Aqueduct—North Conduit Avenue station to Aqueduct Racetrack reduced transit usage and attendance at the racetrack. The agreement took effect on October 1, 1997, and was set to expire on September 30, 1999. As part of the agreement, the northern underpass entrance at Aqueduct—North Conduit Avenue would be reopened, shortening the walking distance for people arriving at Aqueduct Racetrack by The station was reopened using new MetroCard only High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles (HEETs), and without a token booth, allowing it to be unstaffed at all times. Though MetroCard's were not sold at the station, they were sold at betting windows at Aqueduct Racetrack. It cost $140,000 to reopen the station and install the HEETs and to reopen the entrance at North Conduit Avenue, with an additional annual operating and maintenance cost of $37,000. The NYRA provided $40,000 over two years to help pay for the reopening of the station. The station was scheduled to reopen in early 2012, In 2013, there was a proposal to rename this station to Aqueduct–Resorts World Casino, and to add a platform for Rockaway bound trains. As of July 2012, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has withheld approvals to construct a southbound platform. The station was cleaned and repaired in 2023 as part of the MTA's Re New Vation program.

Located on an embankment, the station has four tracks with only the outer two used in revenue service. The two center express tracks have been disconnected from the line and permanently removed. North of this station, a portion of the southbound express track connects with the southbound local track at its north end, and ends at a bumper block at its southern end. This section of track can be used for revenue service or work train layups, but this use has been made completely redundant because of the nearby Pitkin Yard serving as the primary layup yard instead. North of the station, the line's northbound track switches to the position of the former southbound express track to head onto the Liberty Avenue elevated structure. serving northbound trains heading toward Brooklyn and Manhattan. Resorts World Casino runs a shuttle bus between Aqueduct Racetrack and Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue.

This station has four High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles and several emergency exit gates (one of which is equipped with an AutoGate MetroCard reader), but no station agent's booth or MetroCard Vending Machines. Although MetroCards can technically be purchased at any subway station in the system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) considers the station to be linked with Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue located approximately 900 feet (274 m) to the south, which has a full time station agent's booth and MetroCard machines. Two wide staircases and the elevator lead down from platform level to the parking lots in front of the racetrack. A sidewalk on the western side of Aqueduct Road leads south from Aqueduct Racetrack to the North Conduit Avenue station; the main fare control area is located at the south end of that station at North Conduit Avenue. As of 2007, ridership was higher on Saturdays than on weekdays (with an average of 58 riders on weekdays and 895 on Saturdays). In 2009, the station had 27,004 entries, This amounted to only 52 boardings per weekday in 2009, representing a 71.6 percent decrease from the station's 1990 ridership. Since the station was closed through 2012, there were no boardings, but after full time service was restored to the station in 2013, there was a significantly higher ridership, with 213,601 recorded entries in 2013 and 630,644 entries in 2014. The increase in ridership at the station and the nearby Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue station since 2010 has been attributed to the closure of the New York City Off Track Betting Corporation, that year and the opening of the casino in 2011. In 2019, the station had 601,436 boardings (down from 732,091 in 2018), making it the 400th busiest station in the 422 station system. This amounted to an average of 1,594 passengers per weekday.