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| Address | Beach 105th Street & Rockaway Freeway Rockaway Park, NY 11694 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Rockaway Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 1880 (LIRR station) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 28, 1956 (as a Subway station) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | Beach 105th Street – Seaside | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 65,802[1] 12.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 420 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Beach 98th Street: A S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street: A S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beach 105th Street, sometimes referred as Beach 105th Street – Seaside, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located at Beach 105th Street on the Rockaway Freeway in Queens. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains.
This elevated station has two tracks and two side platforms on a concrete viaduct. Both platforms have beige windscreens and canopies with green support columns in the center and waist-high steel fences at either ends. The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks. It has a token booth, turnstile bank, waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, two staircases to each platform at the center, and two staircases going down to either side of Rockaway Freeway between Beach 105th and Beach 104th Streets. The two southern staircases are connected to the station house with a canopied overpass. The Rockaway Park-bound platform has a now-sealed exit-only at the north end. South of this station, the IND Rockaway Line descends to ground level.
Beach 105th Street has the second lowest ridership of any New York City subway station the lowest in patronage of subway stations with regular daily service (the seasonal-use Aqueduct Racetrack station is the least-used station overall). 65,802 passengers used the station in 2010.[1]
This station previously had six different names. It was originally opened by the Long Island Rail Road in 1880 as Seaside Station (also an earlier name for Babylon) for the Rockaway Beach Branch at 102nd Street. It also included a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway. A second station at Beach 104th Street became its replacement in April 1888, only to be burned on September 20, 1892. The third station was built in 1892 and burned on August 29, 1893. The fourth station was built in 1894 and renovated between April and May 1899. Like many of the stations on the Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway Branches, it burned for a third time in 1941 and replaced with an elevated railroad station that opened in 1942. A 1950 fire at The Raunt destroyed the trestle across Jamaica Bay, forcing the LIRR reroute Rockaway Beach service along the Far Rockaway Branch through the Hammels Wye for the next five years. This station was closed on October 3, 1955, purchased by the New York City Transit Authority, rebuilt and reopened as a subway station on June 28, 1956.[2]
