Franklin Avenue (New York City Subway)

Infobox NYCS
name=Franklin Avenue
bg_color=black
accessible=yes
passengers=3.791 million
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=.1
service_custom=NYCS Fulton local|time=full
NYCS Franklin|time=full
borough=Brooklyn

Franklin Avenue is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Franklin Avenue Line and the IND Eighth Avenue Line, located in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.__TOC__

BMT Franklin Avenue Line platform

Infobox NYCS

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bg_color = #3D4040
line = BMT Franklin Avenue Line
service = Franklin
platforms = 1 side platform
tracks = 1
open_date = August 15, 1896 [cite BDE|title=New Route to Coney Island|md=August 14|y=1896|page=12] [cite BDE|title=First Trains to Brighton|md=August 14|y=1896|page=7]

north_custom_station = (Terminal)
south_line = BMT Franklin Avenue Line
south_local_station = Park Place
south_local_station_acc = yes
south_local_service = Franklin
south_custom_station = Closed:
Dean Street

Franklin Avenue, or Franklin Avenue-Fulton Street on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line has one track and one side platform. It is the northern terminal of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle service.

History

The original station was built in 1896 in typical Kings County Elevated Railway style to connect with the adjacent Franklin Avenue station of the Fulton Street Elevated. It was a two-track through station with side platforms, and was the point where steam railroad trains from the Fulton Street Line turned onto the BMT Brighton Line to access Brighton Beach.

In 1920 the track connection to the Fulton Street Line was severed as Brighton Line trains to downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan were rerouted via a new tunnel under Flatbush Avenue.

In 1924, the station was rebuilt as a single-track station. The former westbound (now northbound) track was decked over with a wood platform to accommodate crowds switching from the Fulton Street Line to Franklin trains to Prospect Park and Coney Island. The station platforms were also extended south to accommodate longer subway trains. The platforms that originally accommodated five elevated BU cars for a length of ~250 ft (~76 m) were extended to host six subway-type AB Standard cars for a length of ~402 feet (~123 m).

When the BMT system was taken over by the City of New York in 1940 the Fulton Street Elevated Line was discontinued and paper transfers were issued at Franklin Avenue station for passengers to access the new IND Fulton Street Line subway.

Rehabilitation

This station was completely rebuilt between 1998 and 1999 as a single-track station with a single platform on the west side of the track. The new platform is only 175 feet (~53 m) long and accommodates a two-car train of 75-foot (~23 m) subway cars.

There is an escalator and two elevators in the station, along with new artwork and transfers between the Franklin Avenue & IND Fulton Street lines all within fare control. The main fare control was also moved to street level on the southwest corner of Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue. The main fare control is at the base of a large atrium on the southwest corner of the intersection. The shuttle platform is two stories above the street. An escalator that only goes up brings passengers directly to the platform from the street. If you go downstairs from the fare control, you can go to the Euclid Avenue-bound C train. To access the Manhattan-Bound C train, one must go to an intermediate level between the fare control and shuttle platform. There is a bridge across Fulton Street from the level. On the other side, there is another staircase and elevator nonstop to the platform. There are also two part-time entrances from the street on either C train platform.

IND Fulton Street Line platforms

Infobox NYCS
bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Fulton Street Line
service = Fulton local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
open_date = April 9, 1936
north_station = Clinton–Washington Avenues
north_line = IND Fulton Street Line
north_service = Fulton local
south_station = Nostrand Avenue
south_line = IND Fulton Street Line
south_service = Fulton local

Franklin Avenue on the IND Fulton Street Line has four tracks and two side platforms. A crossover at the south end of the station connects to Franklin Avenue station of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. A closed exit at the north end of the southbound platform leads to Classon Avenue and had a booth. After the rebuilding of the shuttle, the booth at the southbound platform was closed, and a new one was added at street level on the same side. The rebuilding also allowed the station to become fully ADA-compliant. All three platforms have elevators to street level.

Prior to the free in-system transfer and the introduction of the MetroCard, a paper bus-style transfer was handed out at the token booth (the only place in the subway where this was still being done). After the Metrocard was introduced, a paper Metrocard transfer was issued from a machine that resembled a bus farebox near the token booth. The transfer was good for twenty minutes and could only be used to enter the shuttle station.

Bus connections

*B25
*B48
*B49

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?213:1379|BMT Franklin|Franklin Avenue
*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?217:3178|IND Fulton|Franklin Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ctrain.htm C Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/fstrain.htm Franklin Shuttle]