Beach 60th Street station

Beach 60th Street, signed as Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Queens on the Rockaway Freeway at Beach 60th Street, it is served by the A train at all times.

 Beach 60 Street
 
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Southbound platform
Station statistics
AddressBeach 60th Street & Rockaway Freeway
Queens, NY 11692
BoroughQueens
LocaleArverne
Coordinates40.592395°N 73.788536°W / 40.592395; -73.788536
DivisionB (IND, formerly LIRR Far Rockaway Branch)
LineIND Rockaway Line
Services      A  (all times)
Transit connections MTA Bus: Q22, Q52 SBS
StructureElevated
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
Opened1892 (1892) (LIRR station)
RebuiltJune 28, 1956 (1956-06-28) (as a Subway station)
Station code205[1]
Opposite-direction transfer availableYes
Former/other namesBeach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue
Traffic
Passengers (2019)623,826[2]  1%
Rank399 out of 424[2]
Station succession
Next westBeach 67th Street: A 
Next eastBeach 44th Street: A 

History
Track layout
to B 67 St
to B 44 St
Street stair at Beach 59th Street
Platforms before 2010 renovation

Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue was originally built by the Long Island Rail Road along the Rockaway Beach Branch as Straiton Avenue, also known as Arverne–Straiton Avenue in 1892 as part of a quarrel between the LIRR and New York lawyer and developer Remington Vernam over the original Arverne Station on Gaston Avenue. It also served as a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway. Like all stations along the Rockaway Beach Branch, the station was rebuilt as an elevated station on April 10, 1942, then purchased by the New York City Transit Authority on October 3, 1955 and reopened as a subway station on June 28, 1956.[3]

Station layout
P
Platform level		 Side platform
Northbound ← toward 207th Street (Beach 67th Street)
Southbound → toward Far Rockaway (Beach 44th Street) →
Side platform
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
G Street level Exit/entrance

There are two tracks and two side platforms. The outside portion of the station affords a view of the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay.

Exits

The full-time entrance to the station is at the west end and has two stairs to the northeast corner of Rockaway Freeway and Beach 59th Street. The station house under the platform has a turnstile bank, token booth and two staircase to each platform. There is an additional exit-only staircase at the west end of the eastbound platform.[4]

References
  1. "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  2. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  3. LIRR Station History Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: The Rockaways" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
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