Bay Ridge Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

Bay Ridge Avenue

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Manhattan-bound platform

Station statistics

Address

Bay Ridge Avenue & Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Borough

Brooklyn

Locale

Bay Ridge

Coordinates

40°38′1.24″N 74°1′25.87″W / 40.6336778°N 74.0238528°WCoordinates: 40°38′1.24″N 74°1′25.87″W / 40.6336778°N 74.0238528°W

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Fourth Avenue Line

Services

R (all times)

Transit connections

New York City Bus: B9, B63 (on Fifth Avenue), B64, B70

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

January 15, 1916^[1]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

2,623,309^[2]

Rank

190 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

59th Street: R

Next south

77th Street: R

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

Location
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Bay Ridge Avenue is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Bay Ridge Avenue and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It is served by the R train at all times.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
B2	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (36th Street late nights) (59th Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (77th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

The 68th Street exit-only staircase

This underground station, which opened on January 15, 1916,^[1] has two tracks and two side platforms. The station's mezzanine is above the platforms with two staircases leading to each. Only the 95th Street-bound platform has columns, except for the extreme ends of the platform, which have no columns. All of the columns are painted blue and are standard I-beams. All columns have "Bay Ridge Av" signs on them.

There is space for an additional trackway under the northbound platform. The station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for a possible extension of the express tracks south of 59th Street.^[3] As a result of the possibility of the extension of the express tracks, there is space underneath the northbound platform for an additional trackway at this station for the Bay Ridge-bound express track. This also can be found at 77th Street. Further evidence of the provisions for tracks on the east side of Fourth Avenue can be seen north of this station, where the subway is carried in the lower deck of a bridge (Fourth Avenue) over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch cut.^[4] On this cut it can be seen that the bridge has four trackways of which only the western two are used. The tunnel leading up to each side of the bridge was built for two tracks only.

This station was overhauled in the late 1970s, which included fixing the station's structure and overall appearance. The original trim lines were replaced with gray and blue cinderblock tiles. The staircases were repaired and new platform edges were installed. The blue cinderblock field contains the station signs and white text pointing to the exits. The landing in the southbound platform's exit-only is the only area in the station that contains the original 1915 trim line with "B.R." tiled on it.

Exits

From the mezzanine outside of fare control, two staircases lead to either southern corners of Bay Ridge and Fourth Avenues. The 95th Street-bound platform has an additional exit-only near the north end; a single-platform level turnstile leads to a small landing, where a double-flight staircase goes up to the northwest corner of 68th Street and Fourth Avenue.

References

1 2 "Subway Running To Eighty-Sixth Street Starts Building Boom In Bay Ridge". http://bklyn.newspapers.com. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. January 15, 1916. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
↑ "Brooklyn Subway Extension Plan: Fourth Ave. Line to 86th St., Tunnel to Staten Island, and Eventually a Through Route to Coney Island". nytimes.com. The New York Times. February 16, 1912. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UoyQwQHJC0&feature=related

External links

nycsubway.org—BMT 4th Avenue Line: Bay Ridge Avenue
Station Reporter — R Train
The Subway Nut — Bay Ridge Avenue Pictures
Bay Ridge Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
68th Street exit only stairs from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations

4th Ave. Line	[← to South Ferry – Whitehall Street, Broadway Line / ← ~~to Broad Street, Nassau St. Line~~] Court Street Jay Street – MetroTech [← to Canal Street, Broadway Line via Manhattan Bridge / ← to Grand Street, 6th Ave. Line via Manhattan Bridge and Chrystie Street Connection] Myrtle Avenue DeKalb Avenue [to Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center, Brighton Line →] Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center Union Street Ninth Street Prospect Avenue 25th Street 36th Street [to Ninth Avenue, West End Line →] 45th Street 53rd Street 59th Street [to Eighth Avenue, Sea Beach Line →] Bay Ridge Avenue 77th Street 86th Street Bay Ridge – 95th Street

See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Stations and line segments in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

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