Grant Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line) explained

Type:former
Grant Avenue
Former:City Line[1]
Service Custom:BMT Fulton Street Line
Platforms:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Address:Liberty Avenue and Grant Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11208
Borough:Brooklyn
Locale:City Line
Coordinates:40.6788°N -73.8661°W
Division:BMT
Structure:Elevated
Next Topwest:Crescent Street
Next East:Hudson Street – 80th Street

The Grant Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. It had two tracks and one island platform.[2] The station opened on July 16, 1894, as City Line station, and was the eastern terminal of the line until September 25, 1915, when Hudson Street – 80th Street opened and the line was extended to Lefferts Avenue – 119th Street. The next stop to the west was Crescent Street. It closed on April 26, 1956, and was replaced by the nearby underground Grant Avenue station of the IND Fulton Street Line 1½ blocks south on April 29, 1956.[3] The remainder of the line east to Lefferts Avenue (today Lefferts Boulevard) was connected to the Fulton Street subway and continues to operate.

When opened in 1894, the station was labeled as City Line station on some maps, as this station was close to the border of Queens County, and the train terminated a block short of where the City of Brooklyn (and Kings County) ended.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/bmt_1912.jpg 1912 BMT Route Map (NYCSubway.org)
  2. Web site: Fulton Street El . StationReporter.net . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130408045756/http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm . 2013-04-08 .
  3. Web site: First Leg of Rockaways Transit Opened at Cost of $10,154,702. The New York Times. 29 June 2015. April 30, 1956.