Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue was originally built by the Long Island Rail Road along the Rockaway Beach Branch as Straiton Avenue, also known as Arverne–Straiton Avenue in 1892 as part of a quarrel between the LIRR and  New York lawyer and developer Remington Vernam over the original Arverne station on Gaston Avenue.
Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue was built by the Long Island Rail Road along the Rockaway Beach Branch in 1892 as part of a dispute between the LIRR and developer Remington Vernam over the original Arverne station on Gaston Avenue.