Culver Ramp
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The Culver Ramp is a four-track rapid transit structure, located in the center of McDonald Avenue, in the community of Parkville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The ramp connects the IND Culver Line subway, emerging from underground just south of Avenue C, and reaching elevated railway height at Cortelyou Road to gain access to the BMT Culver Line at the Ditmas Avenue station.
The Culver Ramp was a key part of the plan for Unification of the private transit companies, the IRT and BMT, with the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND) to form a single city-owned subway. The ramp was to allow trains of the IND system to reach Coney Island, the amusement resort on the Atlantic Ocean.
Construction of the ramp began in 1941, soon after the city had taken over the private systems, but was halted because of World War II priorities. Construction resumed after the war but actual passenger service using the ramp did not begin until 1954, when trains of the D service used it to create a single subway service from the Bronx to Coney Island.
