Lafayette Avenue was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line.

It was also located north of the Flatbush Avenue station of the Long Island Rail Road, now known as the Atlantic Terminal, and had no connections there either.

In 1898, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899.

[8] It closed on June 1, 1940,[4] when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.

[5] Though the Fulton Street subway became the replacement for the Fulton Street Elevated, the closest station to the site of Lafayette Avenue station is actually Fulton Street station on the IND Crosstown Line.