Beach 90th Street station

Beach 90th Street, signed as Beach 90th Street–Holland, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains.

Beach 90 Street  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Artwork on Rockaway Park bound platform
Station statistics
Address	Beach 90th Street & Rockaway Freeway Queens, NY 11693
Borough	Queens
Locale	Rockaway Beach
Coordinates	40.588095°N 73.813499°W
Division	B (IND, formerly LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch)
Line	IND Rockaway Line
Services	A  (rush hours, peak direction) ​   S  (all times)
Transit	MTA Bus: Q22, Q52 SBS, QM17
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	June 1880 (LIRR station)
Rebuilt	June 28, 1956 (as a Subway station)
Station code	200[1]
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Former/other names	Beach 90th Street–Holland
Traffic
2019	348,771[2]  8.9%
Rank	416 out of 424[2]
Station succession
Next east	Broad Channel: A  ​S  Beach 67th Street: no regular service
Next west	Beach 98th Street: A  ​S
Location
Track layout to Broad Channel Hammels Wye to Beach 67 St to Beach 98 St
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

History

The "Holland" designation refers to Michael P. Holland, one of the early developers of the area in which the station was located. It was originally built by the Long Island Rail Road at Holland Avenue and Beach 92nd Street between May and June 1880 along the Rockaway Beach Branch for the nearby Holland Hotel, and was also a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway. It was rebuilt in 1899, and again in 1914 with a baggage storage facility. Like much of the Rockaway Beach Branch and part of the former Far Rockaway Branch, it was closed in 1941 and rebuilt as an elevated station in 1942, only to be purchased by the New York City Transit Authority on October 3, 1955 and reopened as a subway station on June 28, 1956.

After Hurricane Sandy hit and destroyed the long stretch of the IND Rockaway Line, this was a terminal of the temporary H shuttle until May 30, 2013, when the A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle were restored to the Rockaways. H trains terminated on the northbound track, because the Rockaway Park Shuttle was not in operation and A service was cut to Howard Beach–JFK Airport.

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform
	Southbound	← toward Rockaway Park (Beach 98th Street) ← PM rush toward Rockaway Park (Beach 98th Street)
	Northbound	→ toward Broad Channel (Terminus) → → AM rush toward 207th Street (Broad Channel) → ← (No service: Beach 67th Street)
	Side platform
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
G	Street level	Entrances/exits

The station is built on a concrete viaduct. There are two tracks and two side platforms. New lights were installed in 2010.[3]

Exits

There is a crossunder to the tiled mezzanine. Outside of fare control, there are stairs to either eastern corner of Rockaway Freeway and Beach 90th Street. The southbound side had an additional exit on the south end, which has been removed.[4]

References

1. "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
2. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
3. Two Rockaway Stations Re-Open Today (MTA Press Release; December 22, 2010)
4. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: The Rockaways" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2015.

External links

• Media related to Beach 90th Street station at Wikimedia Commons
• nycsubway.org – IND Rockaway: Beach 90th Street/Holland
• Station Reporter — Rockaway Park Shuttle
• 1905 Image of Holland Station (Arrt's Arrchives)
• The Subway Nut — Beach 90th Street – Holland Pictures
• Beach 90 Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform level from Google Maps Street View