Franklin Avenue–Botanic Garden (New York City Subway)

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This article is about the New York City Subway station complex at Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway. For the station complex at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street, see Franklin Avenue (New York City Subway).


Franklin Avenue-Botanic Garden
New York City Subway station
Station information
Services	2 (all times) 3 (all except late nights) 4 (all times) 5 (rush hours until 8:45 p.m.) S (all times)
Other

Franklin Avenue–Botanic Garden is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Eastern Parkway Line and the BMT Franklin Avenue Line. Located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, it is served by:

2, 4 and Franklin Avenue Shuttle trains at all times
3 train at all times except late nights
5 during rush hours. The Mta is soon going to test out to see if the 5 train can come here all times except late nights

The station complex is named for its proximity to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The free transfer between the Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue shuttle platforms was added in 1999 using a passageway that had existed since October 1928, when the BMT Botanic Garden station opened.

1 IRT Eastern Parkway Line platforms
2 BMT Franklin Avenue Line platforms
3 Bus connections
4 External links

[edit] IRT Eastern Parkway Line platforms

Station information
Line	IRT Eastern Parkway Line
Services	2 (all times) 3 (all except late nights) 4 (all times) 5 (rush hours until 8:45 p.m.)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other
Opened	August 23, 1920
Next north	Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum (local): 2 3 4 Atlantic Avenue (express): 4 5
Next south	Nostrand Avenue (Eastern Parkway local): 2 3 4 Crown Heights-Utica Avenue (Eastern Parkway express): 4 5 President Street (Nostrand): 2 5

Franklin Avenue on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line has four tracks and two island platforms. East of this station is Rogers Junction, where the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line diverges from the Eastern Parkway Line and turns compass south under Nostrand Avenue. Between the station and the junction, the southbound express track crosses to the east side, running above the northbound express track, and the northbound local track crosses to the west side, below the southbound local track. Crossover tracks allow express trains to access Rogers Junction and the Nostrand Avenue Line, which is only connected to the local tracks; this is a point of congestion during rush hours. There is a closed tower at the south end of the southbound platform.

The station has been adopted by Clara Barton High School as part of New York City Transit's Adopt-A-Station program.

[edit] BMT Franklin Avenue Line platforms

Station information
Line	BMT Franklin Avenue Line
Services	S (all times)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Opened	1928
Next north	Park Place: S
Next south	Prospect Park: S

Station as it appeared in the late 1970s

Botanic Garden on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line has two tracks and two side platforms. The station is named for the nearby Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

There was no station at this location until 1928, when a new station was constructed to replace the Consumers Park station several blocks to the south, which was considered too close to the Prospect Park station to be useful. The Consumers Park station had been renamed Botanic Garden by 1924. The new station assumed the Botanic Garden name upon opening, and the old Botanic Garden/Consumers Park station closed at the same time.

The current station was built in the open cut right-of-way to the south of Eastern Parkway, and the half of the station closest to that street was roofed over in the appearance of a subway structure.

The station deteriorated over the years as the New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabiliate the station and the line. Support in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. After rehabilitation, it reopened in 1999. At this time, a transfer to the Franklin Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line was added.

The rebuilt 1999 station is located entirely inside the subway structure that was built in 1928. At the street level, it features floral wrought iron fencing in recognition of its location near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. At track level it includes 1920s-era mosaic tiling. To the immediate north of the station, the 1878 railroad tunnel that carries the line under Eastern Parkway has been dramatically lighted.