East 105th Street station

This opened on July 28, 1906 as a replacement for a former station along a steam dummy line known as the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad.

The station was rebuilt twice: in the 1970s and in 2005. The latter renovation cost $9.66 million.^[5]

Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent
Ground Platform level
	Yard lead	No passenger service
	Westbound	← toward Eighth Avenue (New Lots Avenue)
	Island platform
	Eastbound	→ toward Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway (Terminus) →
	Street level	Exit/entrance

This grade-level station 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 southernmost track is a stub-end track that leads to the Canarsie Yard.^[6]

The only grade crossing of the subway system was located at where East 105th Street crossed the Canarsie Line.^[7] It was located at the site of the current station house. The crossing was eliminated on August 5, 1973. ^[8][9][10] The grade crossing elimination was part of the construction of the Flatlands Industrial Park.^[11]

The MTA still lists the station being at Turnbull Avenue, a dirt road which once ran along the tracks but no longer exists.^[12] 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.^[13]

The artwork here is called Crescendo by Michael Ingui. Installed during a 2007 renovation, it consists of stained glass windows near the staircases.^[14][15] The renovation also resulted in a short canopy being installed above the platform. There is a substation just south of the station.^[16]

Exits

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.^[17]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to East 105th Street (BMT Canarsie Line).

• 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
• Platform from Google Maps Street View