Prospect Park (BMT Brighton Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Prospect Park


accessible = yes
font_color = black
bg_color = #FFC800
bg_color_2 = #3D4040
line = BMT Brighton Line
service = Prospect Park
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
passengers = 2.547 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = 5
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = July 2, 1878
north_station = Seventh Avenue
north_line = BMT Brighton Line
north_service = Brighton north
north_custom_station = NYCS next|type=Franklin|station=Botanic Garden|line=BMT Franklin Avenue Line|service=Franklin|acc=yes
south_line = BMT Brighton Line
south_local_station = Parkside Avenue
south_local_service = Brighton local
south_express_station = Church Avenue
south_express_service = Brighton express

Prospect Park is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway, located at Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Prospect Park has four tracks and two island platforms. Currently, only three tracks are in revenue service. The Franklin Avenue Shuttle uses the northbound local track to terminate. The NYCS|B and NYCS|Q use the two express tracks. The last track is used to store trains. South of the station NYCS|B trains continue southbound as the Brighton Express to Brighton Beach, while NYCS|Q trains switch to the local and run to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue. Northbound on the Brighton Line, trains run parallel to the IRT Eastern Parkway Line.

History

There has been a station at this location since July 2, 1878, when the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway established its temporary northern terminus here at what was then known as the Willink Entrance to Prospect Park. On August 18, 1878 the line was completed north to Bedford Terminal and a connection with the Long Island Rail Road. In 1918 the station began rebuilding in order to accommodate the new subway connection to the Manhattan Bridge. On November 1, 1918, this rebuilding contributed to the Malbone Street Wreck when a train of elevated cars was wrecked on the then-new curve on what is now the rarely-used southbound (O1) Franklin Avenue Shuttle track. The current station reached full service on August 1, 1920 when the connection to the Manhattan Bridge and Broadway (BMT) subway was put into service.

Bus connections

* B16 to Kensington, Borough Park and Bay Ridge
* B41 north to Downtown Brooklyn; south to Flatbush, Brooklyn College and Kings Plaza
* B43
* B48

External links

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* Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/btrain.htm B Train]
* Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/qtrain.htm Q Train]
* Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/fstrain.htm Franklin Shuttle]