Bedford–Nostrand Avenues (IND Crosstown Line)

Bedford–Nostrand Avenues
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Queens bound platform
Station statistics
Address Lafayette Avenue between Nostrand Avenue & Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Bedford-Stuyvesant
Coordinates 40°41′23″N 73°57′13″W / 40.689587°N 73.953567°W / 40.689587; -73.953567Coordinates: 40°41′23″N 73°57′13″W / 40.689587°N 73.953567°W / 40.689587; -73.953567
Division B (IND)
Line       IND Crosstown Line
Services       G  (all times)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: B38, B44, B44 SBS
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks 3 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened July 1, 1937 (1937-07-01)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 2,634,066[2] Increase 4.8%
Rank 189 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues: G 
Next south Classon Avenue: G 

Bedford–Nostrand Avenues is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Lafayette Avenue between Bedford and Nostrand Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the G train at all times.

Station layout

Track layout
Legend
to Myrtle–Willoughby Avs
 End of tail tracks
to Classon Av
G Street Level Entrances/Exits
M Mezzanine to entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
P
Platform level		 Southbound ← toward Church Avenue (Classon Avenue)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Center track ← No regular service
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound → toward Court Square (Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues) →
An R46 G train arrives at the station

This underground station opened on July 1, 1937, as part of the extension of the Crosstown Line from Nassau Avenue to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets.[1] This station has three tracks and two island platforms. Both outer track walls have a lime green trim line with a darker green border (formerly crimson red). Below the trim line are small black signs at regular intervals that alternate between "BEDFORD" and "NOSTRAND" in white lettering. Both platforms have green i-beam columns (formerly painted red) on each at regular intervals, with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering.

This station has a full-length mezzanine above the platforms and tracks with staircases to each side at regular intervals that connect the two fare control areas. The full-time one is at the north (geographical east) end. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases going up to the western corners of Nostrand and Lafayette Avenues. The fare control area at the south (geographical west) end of the mezzanine is unstaffed, containing just full height turnstiles and two staircases to either eastern corners of Bedford and Lafayette Avenues.[3][4][5] The two staircases on the western corners are exit-only and signed as "No Entry".[5] They had been previously boarded-up, with a gate sealing off the passageway towards the stairs.

Middle track and expansion provisions

A G train on southbound track

The middle track is used for storage of rush hour trains, or for maintenance and refuse trains. West (railroad south) of this station, the center track has switches to the two outer tracks before ending at a bumper block, while the trackway continues into Classon Avenue. East (railroad north) of the station, the middle track splits into two tracks that ramp down under the outer tracks before those tracks curve north. The tail tracks continue to Marcy Avenue and end at bumper blocks.[4][6][7] A signal and switch tower is located in the tunnel north of the station, staffed during rush hour and midday service, but primarily used during construction reroutes if trains need to be terminated at the station.[8][9][10][11]

Unused in regular service, the middle and tail tracks were originally intended for an unbuilt extension proposed in the IND Second System. Not part of the first official plan in 1929, it was proposed by the city Board of Transportation on October 12, 1930 as an addition to the original plans.[6][12] The plan was for a line to continue east along Lafayette Avenue to Broadway (at Kosciusko Street of the BMT Jamaica Line), then northeast along Stanhope Street to a junction with the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line and a planned IND Myrtle-Central Avenues Line along Myrtle Avenue (between the Central Avenue and Knickerbocker Avenue stations). The IND would then run east along Myrtle Avenue past the Myrtle El, then along Central Avenue in Queens (as opposed to Central Avenue in Brooklyn) to 73rd Place and Cooper Avenue in Glendale, Queens, adjacent to the Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch. The line would have likely continued along or parallel to the Montauk and Rockaway Beach Branches of the LIRR to Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway.[6][12][13][14] Upon completion of the extension, the center track would have been used to terminate short-run trains, or to provide an additional track to hold trains during peak hours.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 "New Crosstown Subway Line Is Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 1, 1937. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  3. ↑ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Bedford Stuyvesant" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Review of the G Line: Appendices" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 "NYC DoT Maps: Bedford-Nostrand Avs (G)" (PDF). mta.info. New York City Department of Transportation. 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 Joseph B. Raskin (1 November 2013). The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-5369-2. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Marrero, Robert (2015-09-13). "469 Stations, 846 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Review of the G Line" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Roy, Jessica (February 25, 2015). "Mysterious Subway People Not Going to Hogwarts After All". New York (magazine). Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  10. ↑ Carlson, Jen (February 25, 2015). "Witnesses Describe Portal To Mysterious G Train Platform Between Subway Stations". Gothamist. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  11. ↑ Carlson, Jen (February 26, 2015). "Photos: Here's The Mysterious G Train Portal". Gothamist. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  12. 1 2 3 Blackford, Harold J. (October 12, 1930). "Shortline Tube To Link Queens To Stores Here: Altered City Subway Plan Provides Easier Way to Shopping Center". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved 27 October 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ Duffus, R.L. (September 22, 1929). "OUR GREAT SUBWAY NETWORK SPREADS WIDER; New Plans of Board of Transportation Involve the Building of More Than One Hundred Miles of Additional Rapid Transit Routes for New York". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  14. ↑ Board of Transportation of the City of New York Engineering Department, Proposed Additional Rapid Transit Lines And Proposed Vehicular Tunnel, dated August 23, 1929

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