Beach 60th Street station

Beach 60th Street
Beach 60th Street
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
Address	Beach 60th Street & Rockaway Freeway; Queens, NY 11692
Borough	Queens
Locale	Arverne
Division	B (IND, formerly LIRR Far Rockaway Branch)
Line	IND Rockaway Line
Services	A (all times)
Transit	MTA Bus: Q22, QM17
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	1892; 132 years ago (LIRR station)
Rebuilt	June 28, 1956; 67 years ago (as a Subway station)
Opposite-; direction; transfer	Yes
Former/other names	Beach 60th Street – Straiton Avenue
Traffic
2023	355,668 1.9%
Rank	407 out of 423
Station succession
Next north	Template:NYCS next
Next south	Template:NYCS next
Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

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

Legend

					to B 67 St






					to B 44 St

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.^[4]

Station layout

Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound	← toward Inwood–207th Street (Beach 67th Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue (Beach 44th Street) →
	Side platform
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance

There are two tracks and two side platforms. The full-time entrance to the station is at the south end, with an additional exit located at the south end of the southbound platform. The outside portion of the station affords a view of the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay.

References

^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
^ LIRR Station History Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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

[SASDEIS-DIVISION-1] "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

[riderref-2] "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

[3] "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.

[4] LIRR Station History Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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