Flatbush Avenue 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. The station was located west of the
BMT Fifth Avenue Line, but had no connection to that elevated line. It was also located north of the
Flatbush Avenue station on the
Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road , often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk Co ...
, now known as the
Atlantic Terminal, and had no connections there either. 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.
Current mass transit stations available nearby are either at
Nevins Street subway station on the
IRT Eastern Parkway Line to the southeast, or at
DeKalb Avenue subway station on the
BMT Fourth Avenue and
Brighton Lines to the northwest.
References
Defunct BMT Fulton Street Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888
Railway stations in the United States closed in 1940
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