East 105th Street (BMT Canarsie Line)

East 105th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Platform view; the station house at East 105th Street is in the background
Station statistics
Address	East 105th Street & Farragut Road Brooklyn, NY 11236
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Canarsie
Coordinates	40°39′05″N 73°53′56″W / 40.651308°N 73.899021°WCoordinates: 40°39′05″N 73°53′56″W / 40.651308°N 73.899021°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Canarsie Line
Services	L  (all times)
Structure	At-grade
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	3 (1 not for passenger service)
Other information
Opened	December 28, 1906
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,187,844[1]  0.8%
Rank	343 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	New Lots Avenue: L
Next south	Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway: L
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

East 105th Street is grade-level station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located near East 105th Street between Foster Avenue and Farragut Road in Canarsie, Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times.

Station layout

M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
G Ground/ platform level
	Southbound	← toward Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway (Terminus)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Northbound	→ toward Eighth Avenue (New Lots Avenue) →
	Yard lead	No regular service
	Street Level	Exit/Entrance

Site of former grade crossing at the station

This grade-level station opened on December 28, 1906 as a replacement for a former station along a steam dummy line known as the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad. It has three tracks and a narrow island platform. The platform, which only has one single-sided bench, serves the middle track (Manhattan-bound) and northern one (Rockaway Parkway-bound). The southern-most track is a stub-end track that leads to the Canarsie Yard. The station was rebuilt twice: in the 1970s and in 2005.

The station's only exit and entrance is via a station house directly above the platform and tracks at their extreme east (railroad north) end. A staircase from the platform goes up to a waiting area, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases, each going down to both dead-ends of East 105th Street. It was built in the 1970s after the only grade crossing of the subway system, where East 105th Street formerly crossed the Canarsie Line, was eliminated. The crossing was closed between August 28, 1972^[2] and August 6, 1973,^[3] though its exact closing date is disputed.

The MTA still lists the station being at Turnbull Avenue, a dirt road which once ran along the tracks but no longer exists.^[4] A part of Turnbull Avenue, directly northeast of the station, is still extant as a driveway that runs to the southeast of the line from Stanley Avenue/East 108th Street to just short of the East 105th Street station's station house.^[5]

The artwork here is called Crescendo by Michael Ingui. Installed during a 2007 renovation, it consists of stained glass windows near the staircases. The renovation also resulted in a short canopy being installed above the platform. There is a substation just south of the station.

References

1. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
2. Mark S. Feinman. "The New York Transit Authority in the 1970s: Major Line Closures". nycsubway.org.
3. "Last Grade Crossing on Subway System Is Closed". New York Times. 1973-08-06. p. 28. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
4. L Train timetable
5. http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/07/canarsie-brooklyn-part-1/

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Canarsie Line: East 105th Street
• Station Reporter — L Train
• The Subway Nut — East 105th Street Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — East 105th Street (BMT Canarsie Line)
• entrance from Google Maps Street View