Albany–Sumner Avenues station explained

Type:former
Albany–Sumner Avenues
Line:BMT Fulton Street Line
Connection:Sumner Avenue Line
Service Custom:None
Platforms:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Address:Fulton Street, Albany and Sumner Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11213
Borough:Brooklyn
Locale:Bedford-Stuyvesant
Coordinates:40.6798°N -73.9378°W
Division:BMT
Structure:Elevated
Next Topwest:Tompkins Avenue
Next East:Troy Avenue

Albany–Sumner Avenues was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. It had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms.[1] It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line. The station was opened on May 30, 1888, and had connections to the Sumner Avenue Line streetcars. Eastbound trains stopped at Albany Avenue, while westbound trains stopped at Sumner Avenue (now Marcus Garvey Boulevard). The next stop to the east was Troy Avenue. The next stop to the west was Tompkins Avenue. During 1912 and 1924, the Dual Contracts program installed a third track on the Fulton El between Nostrand Avenue and the new Hinsdale Street station. Albany–Sumner Avenues stations were closed during that time.[2] [3] In 1936 the Independent Subway System built an underground Fulton Street subway station at Kingston–Throop Avenues between here and the nearby Brooklyn–Tompkins Avenues Station.[4] [5] The el station became obsolete.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fulton Street El . StationReporter.net . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130408045756/http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm . 2013-04-08 .
  2. Web site: 1912 BRT Map . NYCSubway.org.
  3. http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/bmt_1924.gif 1924 BMT Map (NYCSubway.org)
  4. News: Two Subway Links Start Wednesday . . April 6, 1936 . 23 . October 7, 2011.
  5. News: NEW SUBWAY LINK OPENED BY MAYOR; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut.. April 9, 1936. The New York Times. 0362-4331. August 15, 2016.