Prospect Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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Southbound platform | |||||||||
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| Address |
Prospect Avenue & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215 | ||||||||
| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||
| Locale | Gowanus, Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, South Park Slope | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°40′00″N 73°59′39″W / 40.666789°N 73.994079°WCoordinates: 40°40′00″N 73°59′39″W / 40.666789°N 73.994079°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||
| Line | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services |
D  (late nights) N (late nights) R  (all except late nights) | ||||||||
| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: B63 (on Fifth Avenue) | ||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||
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| Opened | June 22, 1915[1] | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
1,785,990[2]  2.3% | ||||||||
| Rank | 273 out of 422 | ||||||||
| Station succession | |||||||||
| Next north |
Ninth Street: D N R | ||||||||
| Next south |
25th Street: D N R | ||||||||
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Prospect Avenue is a local New York City Subway station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn. It is located at Prospect Avenue and Fourth Avenue near the convergence of Gowanus, Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, and South Park Slope. R trains stop here at all times except nights, when the D and N assume local service along Fourth Avenue.
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 local | ← toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (Ninth Street) ← toward 205th Street, toward Ditmars Boulevard (late nights) (Ninth Street) | |
| Northbound express | ← do not stop here | |
| Southbound express | → do not stop here → | |
| Southbound local | → toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (25th Street) → → toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (late nights) (25th Street) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
This underground station, opened on June 22, 1915,[1] is a local station with four tracks and two side platforms with a full curtain wall separating the local and express tracks.
The platforms have no columns except on the north ends, where the platforms were extended in the 1960s to accommodate the current standard B Division train length of 600 feet. These I-beam columns are cream colored. The station was renovated in the 1970s, and during this renovation the original trim line along the platforms was replaced with cinder block tiles, which are colored white. The areas where the platform signs are painted blue.
The station's only fare controls are platform-level near the center. They still have their original trim line, colored brown with "P" at regular intervals, a bank of turnstiles, and token booth. The Manhattan-bound side has two street stairs to the east sidewalk of Fourth Avenue near the Prospect Expressway, while the Bay Ridge-bound side has one to the west sidewalk. There are no crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfer between directions.
References
- 1 2 "Through Tube to Coney, 48 Minutes: First Train on Fourth Avenue Route Beats West End Line Eleven Minutes". http://bklyn.newspapers.com. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 22, 1915. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
External links
- nycsubway.org—BMT 4th Avenue: Prospect Avenue
- The Subway Nut — Prospect Avenue Pictures
- entrance beneath Prospect Expressway from Google Maps Street View
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