Canarsie - Rockaway Parkway Subway Station (Canarsie Line)

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.

The Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway station was constructed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), later Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT). It opened on July 28, 1906.

History

Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway opened on July 28, 1906, as the terminal of a service that ran on the Canarsie and Jamaica lines to Broadway Ferry station in Williamsburg.

Station layout

Track layout Legend to E 105 St GBus loop: B42 toward Canarsie Pier → Track 2 ← toward Eighth Avenue (East 105th Street) Exit/entrance via station house Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines Station at street level Island platform Track 1 ← toward Eighth Avenue (East 105th Street) Platform view at Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway, with an R160A L train at right

This grade level station 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 accessible as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. However, this station is planned to be upgraded with several ADA improvements to be added in the near future, since the station is still missing some key ADA elements. The final components of ADA accessibility at the station were completed as part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program. For $5.48 million, the station agent booths will be relocated, platforms will have boarding areas extended and retrofitted with warning strips and rubbing boards, the platform gaps would be reduced, and a new ADA compliant ramp will be installed, along with other modifications. A $21.2 million contract for ADA upgrades and a renovation of the adjacent bus terminal was awarded in late 2018.

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. Another set of HEET turnstiles between the north end of the bus loop and Canarsie Yard connected to the platform by a passageway leads to East 98th Street near Glenwood Road.

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