Van Siclen Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line) explained

Type:former
Van Siclen Avenue
Line:BMT Fulton Street Line
Service Custom:None
Platforms:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Address:Pitkin Avenue & Van Siclen Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough:Brooklyn
Locale:East New York
Coordinates:40.6727°N -73.8903°W
Division:BMT
Structure:Elevated
Next Topwest:Pennsylvania Avenue
Next East:Linwood Street

The Van Siclen Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. It had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms.[1] It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line. The station was built on November 18, 1889, and was the eastern terminus of the line until it was expanded to Linwood Street in February 1892, and Montauk Avenue a month later. The next stop to the east was Linwood Street. The next stop to the west was Pennsylvania Avenue. On November 28, 1948, the Independent Subway System opened the underground Van Siclen Avenue Subway station as an extension of the IND Fulton Street Line directly underneath the el station after years of war-time construction delays. This station rendered the elevated station obsolete, and it closed on April 26, 1956.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fulton Street El . StationReporter.net . 2013-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130408045756/http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm . 2013-04-08 . dead .
  2. Web site: First Leg of Rockaways Transit Opened at Cost of $10,154,702. The New York Times. 29 June 2015. April 30, 1956.