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Rockaway Avenue is a typical IND local station, with two side platforms for the four track Fulton Street Subway. An interesting fact of the history of the station was that it served as the terminal (definitely built to be temporarily) of the Fulton Street Line for 10 years from 1936 to 1946, as wartime material restrictions prohibited the partially constructed Pitkin Avenue subway from opening.

After the BMT Fulton Street elevated closed south of Rockaway Avenue in 1940 the station served as a transfer point from the IND subway to the BMT elevated, the station was designed for none of this. Looking at a track map there no obvious switches for how trains relayed directions, unless the tracks were completed into Broadway-East New York and wartime material restrictions prohibited putting the final touches to open it on.

The station has two exits, one at the extreme eastern end of the platforms leading up to Hopkinson Av (original name, as some platform tiling says) now renamed (after State Senator) Thomas S Boyland St. This exit has two staircases up to the NE and SE corners of Fulton Street and Thomas S Boyland Street. There were once also streetstairs to the NW and SW corners, but these have been closed off and slapped over. These lead down to a very small mezzanine area that has a single staircase down to either plaform at there extreme eastern ends. This is also where the station's token booth is.

The other exits are directly on the platforms, unstaffed and lead up to Rockaway Av. On the Euclid Av-bound platform there is simply a single high exit turnstile that leads to two staircases to the SE and SW corners of Rockaway Av and Fulton Street. On the Manhattan-bound platform are two High Entrance/Exit turnstiles and an Exit turnstile up to the NE and NW corners of Rockaway Avenue and Fulton Street.

Decoratively the station has a purple theme with purple backgrounds and white text for the name tablets and a purple trim with Rockaway written one tile below. The platforms are columnless except for a couple in the fare control areas. These are purple.
Photos 1-19: June 1, 2009;

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