The Reid Avenue station was a station on the demolished

BMT Lexington Avenue Line The BMT Lexington Avenue Line (also called the Lexington Avenue elevated) was the first standard elevated railway in Brooklyn, New York, operated in its later days by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corpor ...

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. It was opened on May 13, 1885, and had 2 tracks and 2

side platforms A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

. It was located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and Reid Avenue, and as such it had a connection to the

Utica and Reid Avenues Line The B46 bus route constitutes a public transit corridor in Brooklyn, New York City. The route runs primarily along Utica Avenue north from the Kings Plaza shopping center through Eastern Brooklyn, with continued service west along Broadway to t ...

streetcars. It closed on October 13, 1950. The next southbound stop was Sumner Avenue. The next northbound stop was Gates Avenue.

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* BMT Lexington Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1885 Former elevated and subway stations in Brooklyn Railway stations in the United States closed in 1950 {{Brooklyn-railstation-stub