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withered_preacher
Really depends on your style of photography.
Saul Leiter (whose work I love) shot long lenses - he combined the compression of longer lenses with selective focus to create amazing almost abstract works that are incredibly evocative.
And there are good street photographers working today with 85mm equivalent lenses - for example I quite like Monaris (a Puerto Rican who shoots around NYC a lot). She tends to focus in on details - a face in a subway window, people’s hands, that kind of thing. It’s generally pretty good, although she leans a bit too much on the LR presets for her ‘mood’.
60mm is only a little bit longer than 50mm - i think as a very mild tele it might work as a way to get a feel for working with a longer lens without feeling like you can only shoot from the other side of the street.