Grand Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)

For other uses, see Grand Avenue.

Grand Ave.
General information
LocationFulton Street and Grand Avenue
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates40°40′57″N 73°58′45″W / 40.682382°N 73.979255°W / 40.682382; -73.979255
Line(s)BMT Fulton Street Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsPutnam Avenue Line
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
OpenedApril 24, 1888 (1888-04-24)
ClosedMay 31, 1940 (1940-05-31)
Former services
Preceding station BMT Lines Following station
Vanderbilt Avenue
toward Park Row or Fulton Ferry
 13: Fulton Street
Local
 Franklin Avenue
toward Lefferts Avenue

The Grand Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. It opened on April 24, 1888, and had two tracks and two offset side platforms.[1] It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line. The station was also the easternmost station to share the original Brighton Line trains before branching off to the south at the Franklin Avenue el station, the site of the present-day Franklin Avenue subway station. It also had connections to Putnam Avenue Line trolleys. The next stop to the east was Franklin Avenue. The next stop to the west was Vanderbilt Avenue. In 1936, the Independent Subway System built the Fulton Street subway, but provided no station as competition.[2][3] The el station became obsolete, and it closed on May 31, 1940.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Fulton Street El". StationReporter.net. Archived from the original on April 8, 2013.
  2. ^ "Two Subway Links Start Wednesday". The New York Times. April 6, 1936. p. 23. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
  3. ^ "New Subway Link Opened by Mayor; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut". The New York Times. April 9, 1936. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  4. ^ "Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 31, 1940. Retrieved February 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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