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| Address | Beach 90th Street & Rockaway Freeway Rockaway Beach, NY 11693 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Rockaway Beach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (IND, formerly LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IND Rockaway Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | A (rush hours, peak direction) S (all times) |
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | June 1880 (LIRR station) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 28, 1956 (as a Subway station) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | Beach 90th Street – Holland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 338,595[1] 1.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 410 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Broad Channel: A S Beach 67th Street (via Hammels Wye): no regular service |
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| Next south | Beach 98th Street: A S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beach 90th Street, sometimes called Beach 90th Street – Holland, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains.
The station is built on a concrete viaduct. There are two tracks and two side platforms. New lights have been installed. There is a crossunder to the tiled mezzanine. Canopies are wood and have numerous holes and missing sections. The station has no benches on the platforms. The side wall is metal with wood over the steel on the lower half. The southbound side has an extra exit on the south end, which has been sealed and street stairs removed.
The "Holland" designation refers to Michael P. Holland, one of the early developers of the area in which the station was located. It was originally built by the Long Island Rail Road at Holland Avenue and Beach 92nd Street between May and June 1880 along the Rockaway Beach Branch for the nearby Holland Hotel, and was also a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway. It was rebuilt in 1899, and again in 1914 with a baggage storage facility. Like much of the Rockaway Beach Branch and part of the former Far Rockaway Branch, it was closed in 1941 and rebuilt as an elevated station in 1942, only to be purchased by the New York City Transit Authority on October 3, 1955 and reopened as a subway station on June 28, 1956.
