Crescent Street (BMT Jamaica Line)

Crescent Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Crescent Street & Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11208
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Cypress Hills
Coordinates	40°41′01″N 73°52′21″W / 40.683655°N 73.872414°WCoordinates: 40°41′01″N 73°52′21″W / 40.683655°N 73.872414°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Jamaica Line
Services	J  (all times)       Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B13
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1893[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,626,727[2]  2.8%
Rank	295 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Cypress Hills: J  (Z  skips to 75th Street – Elderts Lane)
Next south	Norwood Avenue: J  Z  (J  skips to Cleveland Street)
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops all times
Location

Crescent Street is a station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Crescent and Fulton Streets in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times and the Z during rush hours in the peak direction.

Station layout

P Platform level	Southbound	← toward Broad Street (Cleveland Street rush hours, Norwood Avenue other times) ← toward Broad Street rush hours (Norwood Avenue)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Northbound	→ toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Cypress Hills) → → toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer rush hours (75th Street – Elderts Lane) →
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance

This elevated station, opened on May 30, 1893, has two tracks and one narrow island platform. An arched canopy covers the eastern half (railroad north) of the platform and the station's small, single station house is on this extreme end on the same level. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and a single staircase going to an overpass below the tracks that splits into two staircases going down to either side of Fulton Street between Crescent and Pine Streets.

An artwork called Wheel of Bloom – Soak Up the Sun by Jung Hyang Kim was installed in this station during a 2007 renovation. It consists of stained glass panels on the platform's sign structures showing subway train wheels lit by sunlight.

Between here and Norwood Avenue, there are the remains of a turn off for the former Chestnut Street Incline, which led to the parallel Long Island Rail Road line on Atlantic Avenue. This connection was used primarily for joint service between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and later Lower Manhattan and the beach resorts in Rockaway, Queens.^[3] A service was also operated to Jamaica, Queens for a time. The joint operation agreement and all through service via the connector was ended after the 1917 summer season. Unused by passenger service since, the ramp was taken down in 1942 for World War II scrap.

The tower that existed west of this station and controlled the incline to and from the LIRR stood until the 1970s.

References

1. "Trains Running This Morning". Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY). May 30, 1893. p. 10.
2. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
3. 1942 image from Brooklyn Public Library, via Herbert Maruska (NYCSubway.org)

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Jamaica Line: Crescent Street
• Station Reporter — J Train
• The Subway Nut — Crescent Street Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Crescent Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
• Crescent Street entrance from Google Maps Street View