Newkirk Avenue (BMT Brighton Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Newkirk Avenue


font_color = black
bg_color = #FFC800
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = BMT Brighton Line
service = Brighton
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = "original station:" July 2, 1878
"current station:" 1907()
north_line = BMT Brighton Line
north_local_station = Cortelyou Road
north_local_service = Brighton local
north_express_station = Church Avenue
north_express_service = Brighton express
south_line = BMT Brighton Line
south_local_station = Avenue H
south_local_service = Brighton local
south_express_station = Kings Highway
south_express_service = Brighton express

Newkirk Avenue is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in an open cut at the center of the Newkirk Plaza shopping mall, bounded by Newkirk Avenue on the north, Foster Avenue on the south, Marlborough Road to the west, and East 16th Street to the east, in the community of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

It was opened around 1900 as a two-track surface station named South Midwood, a reference to its location at the southern end of the former Town of Flatbush, which was also historically known as Midwood. Currently, Midwood is considered to be the area "south" of where the station now stands, so it would now more correctly be described as being in "South Flatbush" or "North Midwood".

When on the surface, the station was a division point at which short-lined elevated trains of the Fulton Street Elevated lines terminated. After grade crossings were eliminated c. 1907 the station became a through stop for all services; at this time it was renamed "Newkirk Avenue."

In films

This station appeared in the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish" and was portrayed as being in Fry's old neighborhood. It also appeared in the films "Next Stop Greenwich Village" [http://www.nycsubway.org/biblio/movies.html] and "Man Push Cart".

Bus connection

*B8 west to Borough Park and Bay Ridge; east to Flatbush and Canarsie via 18 Avenue & via Avenue D

ee also

*Transportation to Coney Island

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?193:2147|BMT Brighton Line|Newkirk Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/btrain.htm B Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/qtrain.htm Q Train]