36th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 36th Street


font_color = black
font_color_2 = white
bg_color = #FFC800
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = BMT Fourth Avenue Line
service = Fourth 36th
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = September 13, 1915
north_line = BMT Fourth Avenue Line
north_local_station = 25th Street
north_local_service = Fourth center local
north_express_station = Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street
north_express_station_acc = yes
north_express_service = Fourth center express
south_local_station = 45th Street
south_line=BMT Fourth Avenue Line
south_local_service=Fourth south local
south_express_station = 59th Street
south_express_service=Fourth south express
south_custom_station = NYCS next|type=West End|station=Ninth Avenue|line=BMT West End Line|service=West End north

36th Street is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

This is an express station with two island platforms and four tracks. The NYCS|M and NYCS|R trains provide local service, while the NYCS|N and NYCS|D trains run express (except during late nights, when they provide local service). During late nights, this station is the northern terminal for the NYCS|R shuttle to Bay Ridge–95th Street. South of here, NYCS|N and NYCS|R trains continue on Fourth Avenue, while NYCS|D and NYCS|M trains diverge east onto the BMT West End Line.

This is one of two "36th Street" stations served by the NYCS|R train. The other is 36th Street on the IND Queens Boulevard Line.

36th Street station underwent overhaul in 1998 to 1999. This station received needed repairs as well as upgrading the station for ADA compliance. The MTA rebuilt the staircases, re-tiled the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new track-beds for local and express trains entering the station and also installing some artwork around the station's entrance.Fact|date=February 2007

One of the street entrances show the NYCS|B serve this station, which it did when it ran along the BMT West End Line until July 2001. The sign on one of the staircases leading to the southbound platform show the NYCS|W serving this station, which it did (on a full time basis) from July 2001 until February 2004. Currently, there are only six NYCS|W trains a day stopping here. The first three trains in the morning from Coney Island Yard and the last three heading back in the late evening run in service to Kings Highway on the Sea Beach Line.

Bus connections

*B70 south to VA Hospital in Bay Ridge

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?216:224|BMT 4th Avenue Line|36th Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/dtrain.htm D Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ntrain.htm N Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]