Beach 44th Street (IND Rockaway Line)

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Beach 44th Street
New York City Subway station
Station information
Line	IND Rockaway Line
Services	A (all times)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Borough	Queens
Opened	June 28, 1956 as a Subway Station
Next north	Beach 60th Street: A
Next south	Beach 36th Street: A

Beach 44th Street, sometimes referred as Beach 44th Street–Frank Avenue, is a station on the New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line. This station has no closed exits, and the full time fare control is at the middle of the platforms.

Beach 44th Street-Frank Avenue was originally a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway, which used a former segment of the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch tracks, until it became a Long Island Railroad Station in 1922. The station was relocated 758' east of its former location between August 2 and August 23, 1940 as part of a grade crossing elimination project between Beach 44th Street and Beach 47th Street. It was reopened on April 10, 1942 but transferred over to the New York City Transit Authority on October 3, 1955, along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch and Far Rockaway Branch west of Far Rockaway, and reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June 28, 1956.