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| Address | Crescent Street & Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11208 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Cypress Hills | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Jamaica Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | J (all times) Z (rush hours, peak direction) |
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 30, 1893[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 1,464,238[2] 2.49% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 297 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Cypress Hills: J (Z skips to 75th Street – Elderts Lane) |
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| Next south | Norwood Avenue: J Z (J skips to Cleveland Street) |
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Crescent Street is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Crescent and Fulton Streets in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times, and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction. It has two tracks and one island platform. Both the J and Z skip-stop trains stops at this station during rush hours.
The mezzanine is at the north end on platform level. It has wooden floors and walls, and is smaller than other Jamaica Line stations. The canopy is short and has arched supports.
Between here and Norwood Avenue, there are the remains of a turn off for the former Chestnut Street Incline, which led to the parallel Long Island Rail Road line on Atlantic Avenue. This connection was used primarily for joint service between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and later lower Manhattan and the beach resorts in Rockaway, Queens.[3] A service was also operated to Jamaica, Queens for a time. The joint operation agreement and all through service via the connector was ended after the 1917 summer season. Unused by passenger service since, the ramp was taken down in 1942 for World War II scrap.
The tower that existed west of this station and controlled the Chestnut Street Incline to/from the Long Island Rail Road stood until the 1970s.