Bay Ridge – 95th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

Bay Ridge – 95th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station platform.
Station statistics
Address	95th Street & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11209
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Fort Hamilton
Coordinates	40°36′56.40″N 74°1′52.90″W / 40.6156667°N 74.0313611°W / 40.6156667; -74.0313611Coordinates: 40°36′56.40″N 74°1′52.90″W / 40.6156667°N 74.0313611°W / 40.6156667; -74.0313611
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services	R  (all times)
Connection	New York City Bus: B8, B63
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	October 27, 1925 (1925-10-27)
Former/other names	95th Street – Fort Hamilton
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,858,200[1]  1.5%
Rank	252 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	86th Street: R
Next south	none: R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekdays only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekends and weekend late nights Stops weekdays and weekday late nights Stops weekdays only Stops weekends only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

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, 1925 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 Fourth 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. This station was not meant to be the terminus of the line.

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 Fourth Avenue.

North of this station, a center layup track forms just north of the diamond crossover, before ending at a bumper block just south of 86th Street.

South of this station, there is a false wall at the end of the tracks for a planned extension to 101st Street and beyond into a never-built tunnel under the Narrows into Staten Island. A plan had been about at the time to build a railway tunnel from this station in Brooklyn under the Narrows to connect this BMT line with the Staten Island Railway line near the Grasmere train station, and their cars were built for the Staten Island electrification which would also be of the same dimensions to run on the BMT should this connection be built. One of the world's longest suspension bridges, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, is a vehicular link in a place near the planned tunnel. There were also plans to construct an underground storage yard here.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
P Platform level	Northbound	← toward, Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (36th Street late nights) (86th Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Northbound	← toward, Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (36th Street late nights) (86th Street)

Gallery

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  Entrance at 95th Street and 4th Avenue.

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  Mosaic Direction signs at the unstaffed mezzanine

References

External links

Media related to Bay Ridge – 95th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org—BMT 4th Avenue Line: 95th Street/Fort Hamilton
• Station Reporter — R Train
• The Subway Nut - Bay Ridge – 95th Street Station Pictures
• 95th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• 93rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View