Everything about Park Place Bmt Franklin Avenue Line totally explained
Park Place is a
station on the
BMT Franklin Avenue Line of the
New York City Subway, located in the
Crown Heights neighborhood of
Brooklyn.
History
The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original
Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an open cut
right-of-way on its route to
Coney Island at
Brighton Beach.
A station was established at this spot c.1900 to provide local residents access to trains of the
Kings County Elevated Railway that had begun serving the line in 1896. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place.
During 1905–06, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised
elevated railway and embankment structure, and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point.
The station deteriorated over the years as the
New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabiliate the station and the line. Community support in the
Bedford-Stuyvesant and
Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998, was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999.
The station today
The rebuilt 1999 station consists of a single platform and a single track serving trains traveling in both directions. The new, wider, station platform is built partly over the former southbound track. The large station house is built in a style reminiscent of station houses built in the World War I era on the Brighton Line at
Parkside Avenue on the
BMT Brighton Line and a number of stations on the
BMT Sea Beach Line.
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