The Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway station 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,[3] it is served by the L train at all times.[4]
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| Address | Rockaway Parkway & Glenwood Road Brooklyn, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Borough | Brooklyn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Canarsie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°38′43″N 73°54′09″W / 40.645382°N 73.902626°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Canarsie Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | L  (all times) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transit |  NYCT Bus: B6, B17, B42, B60, B82, B82 SBS (Select Bus Service)
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| Structure | At-grade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 28, 1906 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible |  ADA-accessible | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opposite- direction transfer | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2023 | 861,420[2]  21.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 318 out of 423[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
editConstruction and opening
editBefore becoming a BRT elevated line in 1906, the Canarsie Line operated as a steam dummy line. It was first owned by the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad, chartered December 24, 1863, and opened October 21, 1865,[5]: 101 from the Long Island Rail Road in East New York to a pier at Canarsie Landing, very close to the current junction of Rockaway Parkway and the Belt Parkway, where ferries continued on to Rockaway. The line was single-tracked until 1894.[6]
The Canarsie Railroad was chartered on May 8, 1906, as a BRT subsidiary (leased to the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad) and acquired the line on May 31, 1906.[5]: 192 The line was partly elevated, and electrified with third rail on the elevated part and trolley wire on the rest, south of New Lots Avenue. The Long Island Rail Road, which had used the line north of New Lots to access their Bay Ridge Branch, built a new line just to the west. The East New York terminus was extended several blocks along a section of line formerly used for "East New York Loop" service to the Fulton Street Elevated and the Broadway Elevated (now the BMT Jamaica Line), at a point known as Manhattan Junction (now Broadway Junction).[6]
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.[6]
Renovations
editBecause it is at street level, the station is accessible as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.[7] However, the station was still missing some key ADA elements;[7] subsequently, as part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program, the station was to be upgraded with several ADA improvements.[8] For $5.48 million, the station agent booths were relocated, platforms had boarding areas extended and retrofitted with warning strips and rubbing boards, the platform gaps were reduced, and a new ADA compliant ramp was installed, along with other modifications.[9][7] A $21.2 million contract for ADA upgrades and a renovation of the adjacent bus terminal was awarded in late 2018.[10] The project was completed by July 2020.[11]: 144 [12]
Station layout
edit| G | Bus loop: B42 toward Canarsie Pier → | ||
| Track 2 | ← toward Eighth Avenue (East 105th Street)
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Exit/entrance via station house Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines Station at street level
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| Island platform
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| Track 1 | ← toward Eighth Avenue (East 105th Street)
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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 track east of the island platform, is slightly shorter than track 1 to the west because of the diagonal alignment of the station to the street grid.[13][14] The station is fully ADA-accessible.[7]
Adjacent to the station to the east is the Canarsie Yard.[13][14]
Exits
editThe 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.[15][16] 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.
Bus transfer
editThis 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.[17] South of here, poles that supported the overhead trolley wire remain, with street lighting using some of them.[18]
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.[17] 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.
Prior to December 2019, other buses serving the station stopped at the curb and picked up passengers outside fare control on the East 98th Street loop outside the inner loop. A chain link fence had separated the loops. In 2019, the loop was reconfigured, and reopened with 3 bays and one loop:
- Bay 1: all B42 service
- Bay 2: westbound B82 Local and Select Bus service
- Bay 3: westbound B6 Local and Limited service
The B17 and B60, along with eastbound buses on the B6 (excluding trips terminating at Rockaway Parkway) and B82 Local and Select Bus Service routes, continue to stop outside fare control. This reconstruction was done for approximately $2.4 million.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Neighborhood Map Brownsville Ocean Hill East New York Remsen Village" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
- ^ "L Subway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
- ^ a b Cudahy, Brian J. (2002). How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County. Fordham Univ Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-8232-2209-4.
canarsie trolley.
- ^ a b c Feinman, Mark S. (February 17, 2001). "Early Rapid Transit in Brooklyn, 1878–1913". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Cuba, Julianne (July 7, 2017). "Access excess? MTA spending $6M to make stairless station handicapped accessible". Brooklyn Daily. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ^ "MTA Capital Program 2016-2019: Renew. Enhance. Expand" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. October 28, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Notice of Public Hearing and Description of Projects – Tuesday, August 23, 2016 4:30 P.M. – Request for Federal Financial Assistance Under the Federal Transportation Authorization For Federal Fiscal Year 2017 Capital Improvement Projects" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 28, 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 17, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "Transit & Bus Committee Meeting" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. January 22, 2019. pp. 176–177. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
- ^ "Transit Committee Meeting". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 22, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
- ^ "New York MTA completes accessibility improvements at Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway Station". Mass Transit Magazine. July 2, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
- ^ a b "General Station Arrangement Sta. 79+00 TO 96+60 14th Street Canarsie Line P BMT". bmt-lines.com. New York City Transit Authority Maintenance of Way Department Signal Section. November 17, 1965. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
- ^ a b Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Municipal Parking Facilities". New York City Department of Transportation.
- ^ Stengren, Bernard (August 15, 1959). "City Lots Provide 10,850 Car Spaces" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
- ^ a b Muir, Hugh G. (December 7, 1960). "Sonic 'Echo' Unit Stands Guard For Subway-Bus Transfer". New York World-Telegram. pp. B1, B3 – via Fultonhistory.com.
- ^ "Canarsie's Backyard Trolley". Forgotten New York. August 12, 2001. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
External links
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- nycsubway.org – BMT Canarsie Line: Rockaway Parkway
- Station Reporter — L Train
- The Subway Nut — Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway Pictures Archived July 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- Rockaway Parkway entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Glenwood Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platform and B42 bus terminal from Google Maps Street View