Beach 60th Street (IND Rockaway Line)

Beach 60th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Beach 60th Street & Rockaway Freeway Queens, NY 11692
Borough	Queens
Locale	Arverne
Coordinates	40°35′33″N 73°47′19″W / 40.592395°N 73.788536°W / 40.592395; -73.788536Coordinates: 40°35′33″N 73°47′19″W / 40.592395°N 73.788536°W / 40.592395; -73.788536
Division	B (IND, formerly LIRR Far Rockaway Branch)
Line	IND Rockaway Line
Services	A  (all times)
Transit connections	MTA Bus: Q22, Q52
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	1892 (1892) (LIRR station)
Rebuilt	June 28, 1956 (1956-06-28) (as a Subway station)
Station code	205[1]
Former/other names	Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	794,595[2]  0.8%
Rank	384 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Beach 67th Street: A
Next south	Beach 44th Street: A
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Beach 60th Street, sometimes called 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.

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, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Inwood–207th Street (Beach 67th Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Far Rockaway (Beach 44th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending 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. There is an additional exit located at the west end of the eastbound platform.^[4]

References

External links

• Media related to Beach 60th Street (IND Rockaway Line) at Wikimedia Commons
• nycsubway.org – IND Rockaway: Beach 60th Street/Straiton
• Station Reporter — A Rockaway
• The Subway Nut — Beach 60th Street – Straiton Avenue Pictures
• Beach 59th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

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See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Note: Temporary reroutes on the 2, 5, and M trains are not reflected here. Stations with asterisks are served by that service during off-peak hours only. See linked articles for more information.