The Van Siclen Avenue station is a

skip-stop Skip-stop is a public transit service pattern which reduces travel times and increases capacity by having vehicles ''skip'' certain ''stops'' along a route. Originating in rapid transit systems, skip-stop may be also used in light rail and bus s ...

station on the

BMT Jamaica Line The BMT Jamaica Line, also known as the Broadway - Brooklyn Line is an elevated rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States. It runs from the Williamsburg Bridge southea ...

of the

New York City Subway The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October 2 ...

. Located at the intersection of Fulton Street and Van Siclen Avenue in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, it is served by the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction, and by the J train other times.

History

The station opened on December 3, 1885 as part of a one station extension of the Lexington Avenue Line from Alabama Avenue. This station was the eastern terminus of the line until May 30, 1893 when it was extended to Cypress Hills. This station was closed from March 25 to August 6, 2006 in order to be rehabilitated. As part of the rehabilitation project, the stairs were rehabilitated, the floors were renewed, major structural repairs were made, new canopies were installed, the area around the station booth was reconfigured, the platform edge strips were replaced, walls were replaced, and a high-quality public address system was installed. The rehabilitation project cost $8.52 million.

Station layout

This elevated station has two tracks and one

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 ...

. The canopy is short and has a squared off, flat roof-line. The artwork here, ''THE VIEW FROM HERE'' by Barbara Ellmann, was installed in 2007. This artwork is supposed to be evocative of structures in the surrounding area.

Exit

The station's only entrance and exit is a center

mezzanine A mezzanine (; or in Italian language, Italian, a ''mezzanino'') is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft ...

under the tracks with wooden floors and walls. This mezzanine is to the geographic south of the northbound track. Outside of

fare control In rail transport, the paid area is a dedicated "inner" zone in a railway station or metro station, accessible via turnstiles or other barriers, to get into which, visitors or passengers require a valid ticket, checked smartcard or a pass. A sys ...

, two stairs go to southwest and southeast corners of Fulton Street and Van Siclen Avenue.MTA neighborhood map
/ref>

References

External links

* * Station Reporter �

* The Subway Nut �
Van Siclen Avenue Pictures
* MTA's Arts For Transit �

* [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.678026,-73.891672&spn=0,0.013314&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.677773,-73.891614&panoid=aykoFNgJT3a2e-wlb_XWsA&cbp=12,44.69,,0,7.32 Van Siclen Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View]
Platform from Google Maps Street View

The View From Here
nycsubway.org {{NYCS stations navbox by line, jamaica=yes BMT Jamaica Line stations 1885 establishments in New York (state) New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn New York City Subway stations located aboveground Railway stations in the United States opened in 1885 East New York, Brooklyn