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| Address | 95th Street & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11209 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Fort Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | R (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | October 27, 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | 95th Street – Fort Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 1,719,557[1] 1.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 263 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | 86th Street: R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | (Terminal): R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bay Ridge – 95th Street (originally 95th Street – Fort Hamilton) is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Despite the name, the station is actually located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Hamilton (as its original name implies) at the intersection of 95th Street and Fourth Avenue. It is served by the R train at all times.
This underground station, opened on October 27, 1927 and refurbished in the late 1970s, has two tracks and one island platform. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the south end of the platform. It was the last to be built for the Forth Avenue Line and is geographically the westernmost in the subway. This station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for an express line underneath the Narrows to Staten Island that never materialized.
Both platform walls have their original mosaic trim line with name tablets reading "95TH STREET." in Times New Roman font along the entire station except for a small section at the north end, where the platform was extended in the 1950s to accommodate the current standard "B" Division train length of 600 feet. Here, the wall is bare black.
This station has two mezzanines above the platform and tracks, but mosaic directional signs indicate they were originally one full-length mezzanine. The closed-off sections are now used for employee-only spaces.
The station's larger, full-time mezzanine is at the south end. It has two staircases from each platform, turnstile bank, token booth, two restrooms, and two staircases going up to either western corners of Fourth Avenue and 95th Street. A passageway leads to another staircase that is built inside alcove of 9488 Fifth Avenue.
The station's other mezzanine is unstaffed, containing one staircase from the platform, High Entry/Exit Turnstiles, and two staircases going up to either southern corners of 93rd Street and Fifth Avenue.
South of this station, there is a false wall at the end of the tracks for a planned extension to 101st Street. There were also plans to construct an underground storage yard here.
The Dyker Heights campus of Poly Prep Country Day School is nearby.
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