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Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway is the terminus of the Canarsie Line. The station is situated at street level and has one island platform with two stub-tracks parallel to the Canarsie Yard. The station’s exits are at the end of the tracks (their southern end), where there is also the only free bus-subway transfer within fare control to the B42 to Canarsie Pier, in the style of many Toronto TTC subway stations. This free-bus subway transfer is a legacy of the fact the original Canarsie Line, when it first opened as a steam dummy railroad in 1865, continued from Rockaway Parkway to Canarsie Pier along a route similar to today’s B42, on at at-grade route with multiple level-crossings. Starting in 1906, the line was purchased by the BRT and electrified using third rail for the elevated and grade-separated portion until the New Lots Avenue station and converting to trolley wire for the section south of New Lots Avenue through the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway Station and onto Canarsie Pier. In 1917 the third rail was extended to Rockaway Parkway so the BMT could fully eliminated running elevated cars via trolley wire. There was still a grade-crossing at East 105 Street that existed until the 1970s.

Canarsie Shuttle trains operated using the elevated cars under trolley wire until 1920, when conventional streetcars began operating on the former lines right-of-way. This ROW was in use until 1942 when the former Canarsie Line right of way was abandoned and streetcars began operating via on street streetcar tracks on nearby Rockaway Parkway. In order to allow passengers to continue to make free connections between Canarsie Pier and the rest of the subway system, the streetcar line was routed to stop within fare control at the Rockaway Parkway subway station. This arrangement continued when B42 buses were substituted for streetcars on April 29, 1951 with the completely free (no MetroCard required) transfer continuing to this day. In the area just after the tracks end, next to the station platform, the main exit is in a tiny station house just beyond the end of the platform parallel to a gate that is the exit from the bus loop out to the north side of Rockaway Parkway.

Some passengers were also witnessed exiting the station through the bus loop's exit, with a policeman keeping an eye on them. There is a second bus loop beyond a large fence for other bus lines that don't stop within fare control. There is a secondary exit with only a High Entrance/Exit turnstile in a small shack, that is parallel to the gate and sidewalk that is the bus loop's entrance. This leads out to Glenwood Road across from East 98 Street. A high fence separates this walkway from the main busway within fare control so it would be really obvious if people were using the busway to enter the subway without paying their fare.

A final set of a single High Exit and a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile leads out to the west from just before the station house after the end of the platform to the Canarsie Municipal Parking Field where subway passengers can park for up to 15 hours for $10.00, making the Canarsie Station one of the few subway stations to have a proper Park & Ride lot.

The station's platform is canopied for most of its distance. The canopy was added at some point after florescent lighting, since the lights are directly set into the ceiling and not added later. At the end of the tracks and platform is a short, ADA compliant gradual ramp down to street level and the canopy continues to cover the entrance into the small station house. The station has by no means been renovated recently, their still old font signs above wavy, now painted black, small platform windscreens.
Photo 1-10: January 1, 2005; 11-25: June 1, 2009;

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