Avenue X (IND Culver Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Avenue X


bg_color = #FF6E1A
line = IND Culver Line
service = Culver BMT south
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 3
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = May 10, 1919
north_station = Avenue U
north_line = IND Culver Line
north_service = Culver BMT local
south_station = Neptune Avenue
south_line = IND Culver Line
south_service = Culver BMT south

Avenue X a station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. It is the southernmost three-track station on the line. South of this station, the line is reduced to two tracks as it runs to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue. Alongside the southbound side of the station is the Coney Island Complex, and there are two track yard leads south of this station.

The full-time mezzanine at 86th Street and Avenue X has two staircases to the street, and one staircase to each platform. There was second mezzanine that was abandoned and removed years ago, but little evidence of it remains. The platform stairs are narrower today than they were when the station first opened. The width is more than two feet shorter than normal at the top half of each staircase.

The southbound side has an exit-only staircase at platform level that was used primarily to direct customers to the NYCS|F shuttle bus to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue when it was closed for reconstruction from September 2002 to May 2004, and this station was used as a terminal.

Bus connections

Bus connections

*B1 east to Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach; west to Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge via 86 Street & 13 Avenue
*B4 east to Sheepshead Bay; west to Bay Ridge

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?212:212104|BMT Culver Line|Avenue X
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ftrain.htm F Train]