Cortelyou Road (BMT Brighton Line)

Cortelyou Road
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Cortelyou Road & East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY 11226
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Ditmas Park, Flatbush
Coordinates	40°38′30″N 73°57′51″W / 40.641597°N 73.9643°W / 40.641597; -73.9643Coordinates: 40°38′30″N 73°57′51″W / 40.641597°N 73.9643°W / 40.641597; -73.9643
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	Q  (all times)
Connection	MTA Bus: B103, BM1, BM2, BM4
Structure	Open-cut
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	original station: c. 1900
Rebuilt	current station: 1907 (1907)
Former/other names	Avenue C
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,806,758[1]  6.3%
Rank	260 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	Beverley Road: Q
Next south	Newkirk Plaza: Q
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)

Cortelyou Road is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway, located at Cortelyou Road between Marlborough Road (East 15th Street) and East 16th Street in the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times. The Cortelyous were an old New Netherlands family whose immigrant ancestor arrived in 1652. The road and station are named for George B. Cortelyou, who served as Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Postmaster General, and finally Treasury Secretary, under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Rehabilitation work in July 2013

The station physically resembles the nearby Beverley Road station as the layout and station-house are both the same. There are some differences, however. This station has blue columns while Beverley Road has green, there is a signal house for New York City Transit use on the north end that replicates the station-house across the street, and the location of the station-house in relation to the platforms, is slightly to the north compared to the same location at Beverley Road.

The original station at this location was opened around 1900 as a two-track street-level side platform station running south from a grade crossing at Avenue C. The station was established to serve the business commercial area of Avenue C, a major thoroughfare which boasted the only east-west streetcar line between Church Avenue in Flatbush and Sheepshead Bay. The current station house and below-grade platforms were completed at the end of 1907. At the same time, the station was renamed from Avenue C to Cortelyou Road.

The station-house features artwork called Garden Stops by Patsy Norvell, which has etched images of leaves on the glass windows inside fare control facing the south. The artwork can be seen from both inside the mezzanine and while standing on either platform to the south; this artwork is also visible at the neighboring Beverley Road station.^[2] Colors at this station are green and beige.

Rehabilitation work on the platforms was performed in 2013.^[3]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Entrances/Exits
M	Station house	to entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard weekdays, 57th Street – Seventh Avenue weekends (Beverley Road)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Newkirk Plaza) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

References

External links

Media related to Cortelyou Road (BMT Brighton Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org—BMT Brighton Line: Cortelyou Road
• Station Reporter — Q Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Cortelyou Road (BMT Brighton Line)
• The Subway Nut — Cortelyou Road Pictures
• Cortelyou Road entrance from Google Maps Street View