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Beach 67 St-Gaston is a standard Rockaway Line elevated station. It has two side platforms on the two-track line. The stations exits are to all four sides of Beach 67 Street, accessed via the standard Rockaway Line Station house mezzanine that leads out to pairs of staircases up to each platform, rights towards there middles. This is also where the canopied portions of the platform are. For some reason some portions of the platform without canopies got the windscreen treatment. There is also a closed exit to Beach 69 Street at that end of the station from the Far Rockaway-bound platform; the staircase down to street level looks intact like it could still be open.

Rebuilding and Arvene By The Sea: The station was completely rebuilt between 2009 and 2011 along with every other stop on the Rockaway el. To allow this rebuilding to occur Far Rockaway-bound trains skipped the station from September 8, 2009 to January 18, 2010 and Manhattan-bound trains skipped from September 7, 2010 to January 28, 2011. This rebuilding included replacing the original windscreens with green and cream full-height ones beneath the platform canopies and unfortunately replacing the original low fences with modern full-height mesh windscreens towards the ends of the platform. The exit only staircase from the Far Rockaway-bound platform was rebuilt and looks like it may reopen.

As part of the station's rebuilding the all the signage was changed. Gaston was removed as the second station name and Arvene By The Sea has replaced it in a smaller font beneat the Beach 67 Street signs. This is the only stop to lose its original name during the reconstruciton, the rest of the stations have retained their mostly location based former names when this was the Long Island Railroad. The reason is for new Transit Oriented Development (there is tons of vacant land around many of the subway stations in the Rockaways, this is the only subway stop where this really would apply in the sense of applying it to newer, western transit systems) that is slowly being built around the station with new townhouse homes.
Photos 1-3: March 30, 2005; 4-21: December 29, 2008; 22-38: July 26, 2011; 39-58: November 30, 2012; 59-77: September 13, 2012

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Arts For Transit at Beach 67 St-Arvene-by-the-Sea

On and Off the Boardwalk 2011,
Glass Block,
By Ingo Fast

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