The Clark-Tillary Streets station was a station on the demolished

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, located on Fulton Street (now Cadman Plaza West) at Clark Street and Tillary Street in

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. It was also served by trains traveling via what is now the

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History

The station was one of the original BMT Fulton Street Line stations opened by the

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on April 24, 1888. Eastbound trains would stop at Clark Street, while westbound trains would stop at Tillary Street. Both stations were located at a junction where the Fulton Street Line split between the Fulton Ferry and the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. In 1896, the BMT Brighton Line joined the stations between the Brooklyn Bridge and

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. The stations and the line were acquired by the

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in November 1899 and Brooklyn Union Elevated on May 24, 1900. In late-November 1901, the station was one of six that were proposed for abandonment by the BRT.Western Electrician, Volume 29 (Page 361)
/ref> The others planned for closing were Boerum Place, Lafayette Avenue, Cumberland Avenue, and Vanderbilt Avenue. The four stations mentioned survived well into the abandonment of the Fulton El west of Rockaway Avenue, but the Clark Street Station and Tillary Street Station didn't. The control tower was the only surviving remnant of the station, after it closed. The site of the former elevated station is located within the vicinity of the southwest end of the Brooklyn War Memorial Park, and the northwest corner of the Korean War Veterans Plaza in

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References

Defunct BMT Fulton Street Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888 Former elevated and subway stations in Brooklyn Defunct New York City Subway stations located aboveground {{NYC-transport-stub