The Beach 60th Street station (signed as Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue) is a

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on the

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of the

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. Located in

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on the Rockaway Freeway at Beach 60th Street, it is served by the A train at all times. The station opened in 1892, and was rebuilt in 1942 as an elevated station.

History

Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue was originally built by the

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along the

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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

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. The station was rebuilt as an elevated station, which opened on April 10, 1942. The station was purchased by New York City on October 3, 1955, along with the rest of the

and

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west of Far Rockaway, after a fire on the line's crossing over Jamaica Bay in 1950. Now operated by the

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, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June 28, 1956. The station was renovated in 2010.

Station layout

This elevated station has two tracks and two

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s. The station is served by the A train at all times and is between Beach 44th Street to the east ( railroad south) and Beach 67th Street to the west (railroad north).

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. The station house under the platform has a turnstile bank, token booth and two staircase to each platform. There is an additional exit-only staircase at the west end of the eastbound platform.

References

External links

* * * The Subway Nut �
Beach 60th Street – Straiton Avenue Pictures

Beach 59th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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