77th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

77th Street
"R" train
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Uptown platform
Station statistics
Address 77th Street & Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11209
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Bay Ridge
Coordinates 40°37′42.59″N 74°1′33.37″W / 40.6284972°N 74.0259361°W / 40.6284972; -74.0259361Coordinates: 40°37′42.59″N 74°1′33.37″W / 40.6284972°N 74.0259361°W / 40.6284972; -74.0259361
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services       R  (all times)
Transit connections New York City Bus: B4, B63 (on Fifth Avenue)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened January 15, 1916 (1916-01-15)[1]
Station code 037[2]
Accessible not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Wireless service [3]
Traffic
Passengers (2016) 1,743,795[4]Increase 1.2%
Rank 280 out of 422
Station succession
Next north 59th Street: R 
Bay Ridge Avenue: ZZZtemporarily closed for renovation
Next south 86th Street: R 

77th Street is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the R train at all times and is located at 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Station layout

Track layout
to Bay Ridge Av
to 86 St
G Street Level Exit/Entrance
B1 Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
B2 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound "R" train toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Whitehall Street late nights) (59th Street)
Temporarily closed, no service: Bay Ridge Avenue
Southbound "R" train toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (86th Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Stairs on east side of Fourth Avenue

This underground station, which opened on January 15, 1916,[1][5] has two side platforms and two tracks.[6] Both platforms have cinderblock tiles on white and orange, which replaced the station's original mosaic trim line and name tablets during a renovation in the late 1970s. The renovation also replaced incandescent lights with fluorescent lights and installed new staircases and platform edges. The station signs are in the standard black name plate with white lettering installed on the orange tiling. There are also small white text directing to the station entrances/exits.

Both platforms have yellow columns that run at regular intervals along the entire length. Alternating ones have the standard black and white station name plate. The columns are round in the center and i-beams at either ends (where the platforms were extended in the 1950s to accommodate the current standard length of a B Division train of 600 feet).

The station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for a possible extension of the express tracks south of 59th Street.[7] As a result of the possibility of the extension of the express tracks, there is space underneath the northbound platform for an additional trackway at this station for the Bay Ridge-bound express track. This also can be found at Bay Ridge Avenue.

Exits

The station's full-time entrance is a mezzanine at the south end above the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from each platform go up to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the system. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going up to either northern corners of 77th Street and Fourth Avenue. The northwest staircase has its original ornate banisters and railings. Inside the mezzanine, there are mosaics indicating a newsstand and two restrooms, all of which are now defunct, and directing to each platform.[8]

In addition, the Bay Ridge-bound platform has an exit-only at the north end. A single platform-level exit-only turnstiles leads to a double flight staircase that goes up to the northwest corner of 76th Street and Fourth Avenue.[8] The landing here has the station's original trim line with "77" tablets on it.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.