Beach 44th Street (IND Rockaway Line)
Beach 44th Street |
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New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||
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Address | Beach 44th Street & Rockaway Freeway Queens, NY 11691 |
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Borough | Queens | ||||||
Locale | Edgemere | ||||||
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
Division | B (IND, formerly LIRR Far Rockaway Branch) | ||||||
Line | IND Rockaway Line | ||||||
Services | A (all times) | ||||||
Transit connections | MTA Bus: Q22, QM17 | ||||||
Structure | Elevated | ||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||
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Opened | 1922LIRR station) | (||||||
Rebuilt | June 28, 1956 | (as a Subway station)||||||
Former/other names | Beach 44th Street – Frank Avenue | ||||||
Traffic | |||||||
Passengers (2015) | 197,543[1] 8.7% | ||||||
Rank | 419 | ||||||
Station succession | |||||||
Next north | Beach 60th Street: A | ||||||
Next south | Beach 36th Street: A | ||||||
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Beach 44th Street, sometimes referred as Beach 44th Street – Frank Avenue, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the A train at all times.
History
Beach 44th Street – Frank Avenue was originally a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway, which used a former segment of the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch tracks, until it became a Long Island Railroad Station in 1922. The station was relocated 758 feet east of its former location between August 2 and August 23, 1940 as part of a grade crossing elimination project between Beach 44th Street and Beach 47th Street. The new elevated station was opened on April 10, 1942.[2][3]
The station was purchased by New York City on October 3, 1955, along with the rest of the Rockaway Beach Branch and Far Rockaway Branch west of Far Rockaway, after a fire on the line's crossing over Jamaica Bay in 1950.[4] Now operated by the New York City Transit Authority, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June 28, 1956.[4]
Station layout
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Westbound | ← toward Inwood – 207th Street (Beach 60th Street) | |
Eastbound | → toward Far Rockaway (Beach 36th 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. This station has no closed exits, and the full-time fare control is at the middle of the platforms.
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Beach 44th Street (IND Rockaway Line). |
- nycsubway.org—IND Rockaway: Beach 44th Street-Frank Avenue
- Station Reporter — A Rockaway
- Frank Avenue Station, 1955 (Arrt's Arrchives)
- The Subway Nut — Beach 44th Street-Frank Avenue Pictures
- Beach 44th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Pages using New York City Subway service templates
- Pages with broken file links
- New York City Subway station articles with outdated ridership data
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- IND Rockaway Line stations
- Rockaway, Queens
- New York City Subway stations in Queens, New York
- Railway stations opened in 1956
- 1956 establishments in New York
- Railway stations opened in 1922
- 1922 establishments in New York