Bay Parkway (BMT West End Line)

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Coordinates: 40°36′10″N 73°59′40″W / 40.602655, -73.994293


Bay Parkway
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	BMT West End Line
Services	D (all times) M (rush hours until 7:30 p.m.)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Other
Borough	Brooklyn
Opened	December 29, 1916
Next north	20th Avenue (local): D M 62nd Street (express): no regular service
Next south	25th Avenue (local): D Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (express): no regular service

Bay Parkway (formerly Bay Parkway–22nd Avenue) is an express station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located in Brooklyn at the intersection of Bay Parkway and 86th Street, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Although both platforms have signs indicating M trains use the express track, that track is not usually used at all, and M trains operate from local track. There are no switches at the north end of the station to allow trains to use the express track but such switches are present at the south end and are used for M trains to reverse course back to Manhattan.

The mezzanine is metal with concrete floors. The station has two stairs to each platform and its windows are usable and are facing to the west. However on the area over Bay Parkway to any of the 4 street stairs, there is black tar covering what were once windows.

There is a tower on either end of the station.