The Rockaway Avenue station was a station on the demolished
BMT Fulton Street Line
The Fulton Street Line, also called the Fulton Street Elevated or Kings County Line, was an elevated rail line mostly in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn in Downtown Brooklyn east ...
in
Brooklyn
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,
New York City
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, served by the
13 train throughout its existence. It had two tracks and two
side platforms
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
, and a center
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
. It also had a connection to the
Wilson Avenue Line trolleys. Rockaway Avenue was the easternmost station on the line until it was expanded to
Atlantic Avenue on July 4, 1889. The next stop to the west was
Saratoga Avenue until May 30, 1940, after which all stations on the line west of Rockaway Avenue were closed and a free transfer became available to the
IND Fulton Street Line at the
1936-built subway station of the same name.
The next stop to the east was
Manhattan Junction. The station closed on April 26, 1956.
References
External links
*Station Reporter &mdash
Fulton Street El
Defunct BMT Fulton Street Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888
Railway stations closed in 1956
Former elevated and subway stations in Brooklyn
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