| Park Place | |
| Former: | Butler Street Sterling Place |
| Accessible: | yes |
| Address: | Park Place & Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, NY |
| Borough: | Brooklyn |
| Locale: | Crown Heights |
| Coordinates: | 40.6744°N -73.9579°W |
| Division: | BMT |
| Line: | BMT Franklin Avenue Line BMT Brighton Line (Until 1920) |
| Service: | Franklin |
| Connection: | NYCT Bus: |
| Platforms: | 1 side platform |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Structure: | Embankment |
| Open Date: | June 19, 1899 |
| Rebuilt: | (elevated railway) (shuttle refurbishment) |
The Park Place station is a station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line of the New York City Subway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Served by the Franklin Avenue Shuttle at all times, it is the only solitary station in the subway system to be served solely by a shuttle service without any connections to non-shuttle services. It is also the only single-track station in the subway system that is not a terminal station.
The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an open-cut right-of-way on its route to Brighton Beach and Coney Island.[1] [2] The Kings County Elevated Railway (KCER) had begun serving the line in 1896.[3]
A station was established at this spot on June 19, 1899 to provide local residents access to KCER trains. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place.
During 1905–1906, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised elevated railway and embankment structure, and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point.
In April 1993, the New York State Legislature agreed to give the MTA $9.6 billion for capital improvements. Some of the funds would be used to renovate nearly one hundred New York City Subway stations,[4] [5] including Park Place.[6] The station had deteriorated over the years as the New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabilitate the station and the line. Community support in the Bedford–Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998,[7] was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999.[8]
| P Platform Level | Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | |
| Single track | ← toward Prospect Park (Botanic Garden) → toward Franklin Avenue (Terminus) → →(Demolished: Dean Street) | |
| G Street Level | Exit/ Entrance, station house |
The station has a turnstile bank, token booth, a short staircase on the south side going down to the north side of Park Place, and a long ADA-accessible ramp and staircase going to the south side of Prospect Place on the north side of the station house.[9]
