Beach_44th_Street_(IND_Rockaway_Line)

Beach 44th Street station

Beach 44th Street station

New York City Subway station in Queens

The Beach 44th Street station (signed as Beach 44th Street–Frank Avenue station) is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the A train at all times.

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History

Stairs at Beach 44th Street and Rockaway Freeway

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.[3][4]

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.[5] Now operated by the New York City Transit Authority, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June 28, 1956.[5]

Station layout

Platform level Side platform
Northbound ← "A" train toward Inwood–207th Street (Beach 60th Street)
Southbound → "A" train toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue (Beach 36th Street) →
Side platform
Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Ground Street level Exit/entrance

There are two tracks and two side platforms.[6] The station is served by the A train at all times[7] and is between Beach 60th Street to the east (railroad south) and Beach 36th Street to the west (railroad north).[8]

Exits

This station has no closed exits, and the full-time fare control is at the middle of the platforms. Four stairs lead to the street, two on each western corner of Rockaway Freeway and Beach 44th Street.[9]

References

  1. [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.
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    "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  3. [3]
    "Last Grade Crossing In Rockaways Ends" (PDF). The New York Times. April 11, 1942. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  4. [4]
    "Pushes Grade Separation" (PDF). The New York Times. January 24, 1932. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  5. [5]
    Freeman, Ira Henry (June 28, 1956). "Rockaway Trains to Operate Today" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  6. [6]
    "Tracks of the New York City Subway". Tracks of the New York City Subway. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  7. [7]
    "A Subway Timetable, Effective June 26, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  8. [8]
    "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  9. [9]
    "MTA Neighborhood Maps: The Rockaways" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
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