Beach 44th Street station

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.
==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. 
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. Now operated by the New York City Transit Authority, it reopened as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June 28, 1956.
==Station layout==
There are two tracks and two side platforms.
===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.
== References ==
== External links ==
 
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* 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
* Platforms from Google Maps Street View
Category:IND Rockaway Line stations
Category:Rockaway, Queens
Category:New York City Subway stations in Queens, New York
Category:New York City Subway stations located aboveground
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1956
Category:1956 establishments in New York City
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1922
Category:1922 establishments in New York City