Division B (BMT) Services L (all times) Platforms 1 island platform Borough Brooklyn Tracks 2 | Line BMT Canarsie Line Structure At-grade Opened 28 December 1906 Locale Canarsie | |
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Transit connections NYCT Bus: B6, B17, B42, B60, B82 Address Brooklyn, NY 11236, United States Similar East 105th Street, New Lots Avenue, Wilson Avenue, Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues, Sutter Avenue | ||
Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway is the southern terminal station of the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway, and is one of the few grade-level stations in the system. Located at the intersection of Rockaway Parkway and Glenwood Road in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times.
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Station layout
This grade level station, opened on December 28, 1906, has two tracks and a single island platform. The two tracks end at offset bumper blocks at the south end of the station; track 2, the northbound track, is slightly shorter than track 1 because of the diagonal alignment of the station to the street grid.
Because it is at street level, the station is ADA accessible without using an elevator (although this station is planned to be upgraded with several ADA improvements to be added in the near future). The final elements of ADA accessibility at the station will be completed as part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program. Station agent booths will be relocated, platforms will have boarding areas extended and would have warning strips and rubbing boards, and a new ADA compliant ramp will be installed, along with other modifications for $5.48 million.
Adjacent to the station to the east is the Canarsie Yard.
Exits
The station's entrance is beyond the bumper blocks at the south end of the platform. It contains a turnstile bank, token booth, and leads to Rockaway Parkway. On the side of the station house opposite the transfer point is a secondary entrance/exit that contains one HEET entry/exit turnstile, one exit-only HEET turnstile, and one emergency gate. This unstaffed entrance/exit leads to a NYCDOT municipal parking lot, located on the north side of the station. This lot was opened by the New York City Transit Authority in 1959, with space for 340 cars.
Bus transfer
This station is the only one in the system with a bus transfer station within fare control. When the rail service to Canarsie Pier along Rockaway Parkway was discontinued, riders were entitled to a free transfer to the replacement trolleys. Rather than issue paper transfers so riders could exit to the street for the trolleys, a loop was built next to the station with a boarding platform. When the trolleys were discontinued in April 1949, the B42 bus replaced them. South of here, there are still trolley poles remaining, with street lighting using some of them.
Train riders walk directly to the bus loading area without leaving the fare control zone. In turn, bus passengers from Rockaway Parkway enter the subway station without paying an additional fare. At the street, a chain link fence gate blocks access to the bus area to prevent pedestrians from sneaking in for a free ride. The gate is operated by an electric trigger, and was put into operation on December 7, 1960. The back of the bus loop contains an unstaffed entrance to the Rockaway Parkway station that is built on a small shack, has one HEET turnstile, one exit-only turnstile, and one emergency gate, and leads to the northeast corner of Glenwood Road and East 98th Street.
Other buses serving the station stop at the curb and pick up passengers outside fare control on the East 98th Street loop outside the inner loop. A chain link fence separates the loops.
As part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program, a bus boarding island that meats ADA curb height standards, as well as additional modifications, will be constructed for $2.40 million.