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Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)

Coordinates: 40°40′52″N 73°57′21″W / 40.681126°N 73.955712°W / 40.681126; -73.955712
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 Franklin Avenue
 "C" train​Franklin Avenue Shuttle
New York City Subway station complex
Entrance on south side of Fulton Street
Station statistics
AddressFranklin Avenue & Fulton Street
Brooklyn, New York
BoroughBrooklyn
LocaleBedford–Stuyvesant
Coordinates40°40′52″N 73°57′21″W / 40.681126°N 73.955712°W / 40.681126; -73.955712
DivisionB (BMT/IND)[1]
LineBMT Franklin Avenue Line
IND Fulton Street Line
Services   A late nights (late nights)
​   C all except late nights (all except late nights)​
   S all times (all times)
TransitBus transport NYCT Bus: B25, B48, B49
Levels2
Other information
OpenedOctober 18, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-10-18)[2]
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Traffic
20231,210,340[3] Increase 11.5%
Rank256 out of 423[3]
Location
Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street) is located in New York City Subway
Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)
Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street) is located in New York City
Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)
Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street) is located in New York
Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only

The Franklin Avenue station is a station complex shared by the BMT Franklin Avenue Line and the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It is served by the:

Station layout

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2F Side platform Disabled access
Westbound ← Franklin Avenue Shuttle toward Prospect Park (Park Place)
→(Demolished: Dean Street)
1F Crossover Connection to eastbound Fulton Street trains
G Street level Station house, exit/entrance
B North mezzanine Fare control
Side platform Disabled access
Westbound local ← "C" train toward 168th Street (Clinton–Washington Avenues)
← "A" train toward Inwood–207th Street late nights (Clinton–Washington Avenues)
Westbound express ← "A" train does not stop here
Eastbound express → "A" train does not stop here →
Eastbound local → "C" train toward Euclid Avenue (Nostrand Avenue) →
→ "A" train toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights (Nostrand Avenue) →
Side platform Disabled access
South mezzanine Fare control

BMT Franklin Avenue Line platform

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 Franklin Avenue
 Franklin Avenue Shuttle
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Two-car train of R68s terminating at Franklin Avenue
Station statistics
DivisionB (BMT)[1]
LineBMT Franklin Avenue Line
Services   S all times (all times)
StructureElevated
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Other information
OpenedAugust 15, 1896; 128 years ago (1896-08-15)[4][5]
Rebuilt1924; 100 years ago (1924) (Dual Contracts)
October 18, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-10-18) (shuttle refurbishment)
Opposite-
direction
transfer		N/A
Former/other namesFranklin Avenue–Fulton Street
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
Terminus Franklin Avenue Park Place
toward Prospect Park
Track layout

Legend
Bidirectional track
to Park Place
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times Stops all times

The Franklin Avenue station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line has one track and one side platform. It is the northern terminal of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle.

History

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This elevated station opened on August 15, 1896, to connect with the adjacent Franklin Avenue station of the Fulton Street Elevated (see § BMT Fulton Street Line platforms). It was a replacement for the August 18, 1878-built Bedford Terminal station originally built by the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway.[6] It was a two-track through station with side platforms. Just before the Fulton Street Line station, steam railroad trains from the Fulton Street Line turned south onto the BMT Brighton Line to access Brighton Beach. The station also had a connection with the Franklin Avenue Line streetcars,[6] as well as Fulton Street Line streetcars.

In 1920, the track connection to the Fulton Street Line was severed as Brighton Line trains to Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan were rerouted via a new tunnel under Flatbush Avenue. In 1924, the station was rebuilt as a single-track station. The former westbound (now northbound) track was decked over with a wood platform to accommodate crowds transferring between the Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue Lines. The station platforms were also extended south to accommodate longer trains. Originally accommodated for five elevated BU cars for a length of ~250 ft (~76 m), they were now able to hold six subway-type AB Standard cars for a length of ~402 feet (~123 m).

The next stop to the south was Dean Street but only for Brighton Line trains. The next stop to the west was Grand Avenue. When the BMT system was taken over by the City of New York on June 1, 1940, the Fulton Street Elevated Line was closed and later demolished while paper transfers were issued at Franklin Avenue for passengers to access the new IND Fulton Street Line subway.

In 1985, the station had only 210 paying daily riders on a typical weekday in 1985 not counting farebeaters, making it one of the least used stations in the system.[7]

Rehabilitation

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Platform awaiting shuttle train

This station was completely rebuilt between 1998 and 1999[6][8] as a single-track station with a single platform on the west side of the track.[9] The new platform is only 180 feet (55 metres) long and can accommodate a train of two 75 ft (23 m)-long cars, or three 60 ft (18 m)-long cars. The track ends at a bumper block at the north end of the platform.[9]

The 1999 artwork here is called Life and Continued Growth by Eric Pryor. It consists of stained glass panels on the top of the entranceway to the shuttle platform.

Exit

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At the north end of the platform is the station's main station house, a three-story building on the southwest corner of Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue that connects to both platforms of Franklin Avenue on the IND Fulton Street Line.[10] One up-only escalator and one long staircase go down to the fare control area at ground level, where one staircase goes down to the southbound IND platform and one turnstile bank provides access to/from the station. A set of doors then lead out to the streets after the token booth.[11]

The shuttle platform has another short staircase that goes down to a mesh-enclosed bridge above Fulton Street. On the other end is an elevator and one staircase going down to the northbound IND platform. A second elevator from the shuttle platform goes down to the overpass, main fare control area, and the southbound IND platform. These two elevators make the entire station complex ADA-accessible.[11]

IND Fulton Street Line platforms

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 Franklin Avenue
 "C" train
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Southbound R32 C train leaving the station
Station statistics
DivisionB (IND)[1]
LineIND Fulton Street Line
Services   A late nights (late nights)
​   C all except late nights (all except late nights)
StructureUnderground
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Other information
OpenedApril 9, 1936; 88 years ago (1936-04-09)[12]
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
Clinton–Washington Avenues
A late nights ​C all except late nights
toward 168th Street
Local 		Nostrand Avenue
A late nights ​C all except late nights
toward Euclid Avenue
Track layout

Legend
to Clinton–Washington Avs
to Nostrand Avenue
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only

The Franklin Avenue station is an underground local station on the IND Fulton Street Line.

History

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The Franklin Avenue station was constructed as part of the IND Fulton Street Line, the main line of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND)'s main line from Downtown Brooklyn to southern Queens.[13] The groundbreaking for the line was held on April 16, 1929, at Fulton Street and Arlington Place.[14] This station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the Independent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus at Jay Street–Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, to Rockaway Avenue.[12] The new IND subway replaced the BMT Fulton Street Elevated, and this station replaced its namesake Franklin Avenue, which closed on May 31, 1940.[15]

When Aretha Franklin died on August 16, 2018, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority pasted sticker signs with the word "Respect" on the walls of the Franklin Avenue station, as well as the Franklin Street station in Manhattan.[16][17] A Brooklyn resident had suggested adding the signs after impromptu tributes to Franklin had arisen at these two stations.[17]

Station layout

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Opened on April 9, 1936,[12] it has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the A train during daytime hours.[9]

Both platforms have a light green trim line with a dark green border and small "FRANKLIN" tile captions below them in white lettering on a black background. The mosaic name tablets read "FRANKLIN AVE." in white sans-serif font on dark green background and light green border. Directional signs pointing to fare control are underneath some of them. Both platforms are entirely column-less.

Prior to introduction of the MetroCard, the Euclid Avenue-bound platform had a same-level fare control and a paper bus-style transfer was handed out at either IND fare control areas (the only place in the subway where this was still being done) for access to the shuttle station only. After the MetroCard was introduced, a paper MetroCard transfer was issued from a machine that resembled a bus farebox. These transfers were good for 20 minutes and were discontinued after construction of the in-system transfer.[clarification needed]

Exits

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Fare control areas are at the extreme east (railroad south) end of the platforms. On the Manhattan-bound side, there is an unstaffed turnstile bank and one staircase going up to the northeast corner of Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street. Inside fare control, one staircase and one elevator go up to the overpass above Fulton Street that connects to the shuttle platform. On the Euclid Avenue-bound platform, a staircase goes up to the main station house, where a connection to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle is available.[10] An elevator from the platform goes up to the shuttle platform with intermediate stops at the main station house and overpass.[11]

Directional signs obscured with paint, along with newly tiled rooms, point to evidence of a closed exits on the west (railroad north) end of the station, which went to both eastern corners of Classon Avenue and Fulton Street.[18] These exits were closed in the 1980s.[18] The exit to the Manhattan-bound platform is blocked by a trapdoor, while the exit to the eastbound platform is completely sealed.

BMT Fulton Street Line platforms

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 Franklin Avenue
 
Former New York City Subway station
Station statistics
DivisionB (BMT)[1]
LineBMT Fulton Street Line (formerly)
ServicesNone
StructureElevated
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks3 tracks
Other information
OpenedApril 24, 1888; 136 years ago (1888-04-24)
ClosedJune 1, 1940; 84 years ago (1940-06-01)
Station succession
Next westGrand Avenue
Next eastNostrand Avenue
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times Stops in station at all times
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only
Stops late nights and weekends Stops late nights and weekends only
Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekdays during the day
Stops weekends during the day Stops weekends during the day
Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction
Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except nights and rush hours in the peak direction
Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours only
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Station closed Station is closed
(Details about time periods)

This original elevated station at this intersection opened on April 24, 1888, along the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. It was originally built by the Kings County Elevated Railway, and was not only one of the original stations along the line, but the penultimate station, until it was extended to Albany and Sumner Avenues the next month, Rockaway Avenue by the end of the year, Van Siclen Avenue in 1889, Montauk Avenue in 1892, and Grant Avenue in 1894. In 1896, the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad connected the former BF&CI line to the station. It was a two-track through station with side platforms, gaining a third track along the south side at the point where steam railroad trains from the Fulton Street Line turned onto the BMT Brighton Line to access Brighton Beach. The southern platform was shared with the northbound Brighton Line platform, with the different sections of the platform located at right angles. As with the Franklin Street platforms, the station also had a connection with the Franklin Avenue Line streetcars.[6]

When the extension of the Montague Street Tunnel under Flatbush Avenue rerouted Brighton Line trains to Downtown Brooklyn in 1920, the track connection to the BMT Franklin and Brighton Lines were severed.[19] The connection to the now Franklin Avenue Shuttle was rebuilt in 1924 as a single-track station. The former westbound (now northbound) track was decked over with a wood platform to accommodate crowds transferring between the Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue Lines.

The next stop to the east was Nostrand Avenue. The next stop to the west was Grand Avenue. When the BMT system was taken over by the City of New York on June 1, 1940, the Fulton Street Elevated Line was closed[20] and later demolished as the IND Fulton Avenue Subway station built four years earlier was used as a replacement.[12] The portion of the Fulton Street Elevated line beneath the Franklin Avenue shuttle platforms remained standing until the reconstruction project of 1998 and 1999.[21]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. ^ Lueck, Thomas J. (October 18, 1999). "Subway Shuttle Gets $74 Million Makeover". The New York Times. p. B3.
  3. ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ "New Route to Coney Island". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. August 14, 1896. p. 12.
  5. ^ "First Trains to Brighton". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. August 14, 1896. p. 7.
  6. ^ a b c d "The lore of the FRANKLIN AVENUE SHUTTLE - Forgotten New York". forgotten-ny.com. October 4, 1998. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  7. ^ Levine, Richard (November 5, 1986). "COLUMN ONE: TRANSPORT". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
  8. ^ Blair, Jayson (July 25, 1998). "18-Month Renovation for Brooklyn Shuttle". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  9. ^ a b c Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ a b "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Bedford-Stuyvesant" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
  11. ^ a b c "Accessible Stations in the MTA Network". web.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  12. ^ a b c d "NEW SUBWAY LINK OPENED BY MAYOR; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut". The New York Times. April 9, 1936. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  13. ^ Duffus, R.L. (September 22, 1929). "Our Great Subway Network Spreads Wider; New Plans of Board of Transportation Involve the Building of More Than One Hundred Miles of Additional Rapid Transit Routes for New York" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  14. ^ "New Fulton Street Subway Officially Started as Byrne Turns Earth; Ground is Broken For Subway Line Along Fulton St.; Byrne Turns First Spade of Arlington Pl. Earth as Merchants Applaud". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 17, 1929. p. 4. Retrieved August 28, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Last Train is Run on Fulton St. 'El'". The New York Times. June 1, 1940. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  16. ^ Marcus, Lilit (September 3, 2018). "Aretha Franklin gets respect at 2 NYC subway stations". CNN. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  17. ^ a b Yakas, Ben (September 4, 2018). "MTA Adds Aretha Franklin 'Respect' Tributes To Franklin Avenue & Franklin Street Subway Stations". Gothamist. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  18. ^ a b "Review of the A and C Lines" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 11, 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  19. ^ "Montague Street Tube, Brighton Subway Operation Begun". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. August 1, 1920. p. 53. Retrieved May 3, 2018 – via Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com. Open access icon
  20. ^ "Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 31, 1940. Retrieved February 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  21. ^ ""The New Franklin Avenue Shuttle," by Douglas Diamond (The Third Rail Online)". Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
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