Boerum Place was a station on the demolished
BMT Fulton Street Line. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the
Kings County Elevated Railway Company
The Kings County Elevated Railway Company (KCERy) was a builder and operator of elevated railway lines in Kings County, New York. Kings County is now coextensive with the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, but at the time the railway started, ...
and this station started service on April 24, 1888.
The station had 2 tracks and 1
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
. It was served by trains of the
BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the
BMT Brighton Line. This station was served by steam locomotives between 1888 and 1899. In 1898, the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899.
It closed on June 1, 1940,
when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.
References
External links
Boerum Place; BMT Fulton Street Line (NYCSubway.org)
Defunct BMT Fulton Street Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888
1888 establishments in New York City
1940 disestablishments in New York (state)
Railway stations in the United States closed in 1940
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