Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street (BMT Canarsie Line)

Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station ID mosaic
Station statistics
Address Bushwick Avenue & Aberdeen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Bushwick
Coordinates 40°40′58″N 73°54′19″W / 40.682851°N 73.905158°W / 40.682851; -73.905158Coordinates: 40°40′58″N 73°54′19″W / 40.682851°N 73.905158°W / 40.682851; -73.905158
Division B (BMT)
Line       BMT Canarsie Line
Services       L  (all times)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened July 14, 1928 (1928-07-14)
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 598,393[1] Increase 6.2%
Rank 399 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Wilson Avenue: L 
Next south Broadway Junction: L 

Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway and is served by the L train at all times.

History

Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street, opened on July 14, 1928,[2] as part of an extension of the Canarsie Line. This extension connected Montrose Avenue, which had opened four years earlier, to Broadway Junction, which was the western end of the already-operating elevated line to Canarsie.

Station layout

G Street Level Exit/ Entrance
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound ← toward Eighth Avenue (Wilson Avenue)
Southbound → toward Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway (Broadway Junction) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
The street entrance to Bushwick Avenue - Aberdeen Street station.

This station has two tracks and two side platforms.[3] The side platforms are slightly curved and the two tracks are at different levels at the north end of the station, with the southbound tracks being higher due to their descent from an elevated stretch at Wilson Avenue.[3]

The entrance to this underground station is in a small building on the north side of Bushwick Avenue between Aberdeen Street and DeSales Place.[3] In this space are 11-foot (3.4 m) high coffered ceilings, suspended light fixtures, and fancy ironwork.[3] Parchment brown replacement tiles can be observed.[3] The pillars are covered in white tile, with mosaics on each one bearing the station's name, "Bushwick Aberdeen".[3] The elaborate porcelain mosaic band is predominantly tan, peach, mauve and brown with yellow, cream, green, rosy beige, slate blue, indigo and black grape tiles in the center.[3] In the mezzanine, there are also bright aqua tiles, as well as the above-mentioned brown replacements.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ "Last Link of New 14th St-E.D. Subway To Be Opened Today: First Train This Afternoon Will Carry Officials – Citizens to Celebrate". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 14, 1928. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/BMT_Canarsie_Line#Bushwick-Aberdeen
  4. ↑ "BUSHWICK-ABERDEEN STATION, Bushwick". forgotten-ny.com.

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