Beach 60th Street (IND Rockaway Line)

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Beach 60th Street
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IND Rockaway Line
Services	A (all times)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Borough	Queens
Opened	June 28, 1956 as a Subway Station
Next north	Beach 67th Street: A
Next south	Beach 44th Street: A

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.

The full time side of the station is at the south end, and a closed high exit wheel is at the north end. The outside portion of the station affords a view of the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay.

Beach 60th Street-Straiton Avenue was originally built as an elevated Long Island Rail Road station along the Far Rockaway Branch on April 10, 1942, then transferred to the New York City Transit Authority on October 3, 1955 and reopened as a subway station on June 28, 1956.