Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line)

Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station entrances on northwest corner of Flatbush Avenue & Nostrand Avenue
Station statistics
Address Flatbush Avenue & Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Midwood
Division A (IRT)
Line IRT Nostrand Avenue Line
Services       2  (all times)
      5  (weekdays until 8:45 p.m.)
Connection
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened August 23, 1920; 91 years ago (August 23, 1920)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 6,335,994[1]  6.5%
Rank 62 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Newkirk Avenue: 2  5 
Next south (Terminal): 2  5 
Next north Church Avenue: 2  5 
Next south (none)

Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College is the southern terminal station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at the intersection, locally called "The Junction", of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn, and is served by the 2 train at all times and the 5 train on weekdays.

This underground station, opened on August 23, 1920, is the only "dead-end" terminal station in the subway system that does not have a center island platform. It was built with two side platforms and two tracks as the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line was originally planned to continue south towards Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. This extension never materialized. 21st Street – Queensbridge on the IND 63rd Street Line was also built like this before being connected to the IND Queens Boulevard Line in December 2001.

The 1996 cast bronze relief artwork here is called Flatbush Floogies by Muriel Castanis.

The platforms are connected at the south end just past the bumper blocks (forming a "U" shape), where there is an unstaffed exit containing two HEET turnstiles and one exit-only turnstile. The single staircase here goes up to the west side of Nostrand Avenue north of Avenue H. The station's main entrance is on the Track 1 (eastern) platform. Street stairs from either eastern corners of Nostrand and Flatbush Avenues lead to where the full time token booth and two separate banks of turnstiles are. The single elevator from street level down to fare control is at the southeast corner. There is another entrance on the platform of Track 2 (west side). This entrance has two sets of street stairs adjacent to each other at the northwest corner of Flatbush Avenue and Nostrand Avenue. The token booth and turnstile bank are open weekdays only. A single HEET turnstile provides access to this entrance other times.

At all three entrances beyond fare control, lit-up signs indicate which train is the next to depart from the station.

The station was renovated in the late 1990s, when it received its elevator and kept its platform directional signs. The 1920s-style "Flatbush Avenue" name tablets, containing red backgrounds with blue boarders, were restored on both platforms. The top and bottom of the platform walls contain a blue solid line with a colorful border trim. This results in a tiling scheme with blue tiles that create a wavy pattern that comes farther up whenever there is a "F" for "Flatbush" in the station's trimline.

The station platforms have a lot of doors for various non-public uses, including crew quarters. There are public restrooms along Track 1 just within the station's main entrance. The columns separating the two tracks are painted light-blue.

This is the closest station to Brooklyn College and Midwood High School.

References

  1. ^ "Facts and Figures: 2010 Annual Subway Ridership". New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. http://mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub_annual.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-18. 

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