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The Prospect Park station is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway.It is located in between Lincoln Road, Lefferts Avenue, Empire Boulevard, Ocean Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, near the border of Crown Heights.
The 15th Street–Prospect Park station is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway.Located at 15th Street east of Prospect Park West in the Windsor Terrace and Park Slope neighborhoods in Brooklyn, it is served by the F and G trains at all times.
The four lists of New York City Subway stations by borough have additional details regarding services, accessibility, and transfers. ... Prospect Park† [b] BMT ...
Route designation on BMT Triplex equipment. The Brighton Line opened from the Willink Plaza entrance of Prospect Park (modern intersection of Flatbush and Ocean Avenues and Empire Boulevard, now the Prospect Park station on both the renamed Brighton and the Franklin Avenue Shuttle lines) to Brighton Beach (modern Coney Island Avenue at the shoreline) on July 2, 1878, and the full original line ...
The Franklin Avenue Line was established as a discrete route on August 1, 1920, when the Brighton Beach mainline was shifted to the new tunnel connecting Prospect Park station with the Fourth Avenue Subway at DeKalb Avenue station.
The worst rapid transit wreck in the New York City Subway's history, the Malbone Street Wreck, occurred on November 1, 1918, when a five-car wooden elevated train derailed while approaching the Prospect Park station, killing at least 93 people. In 1920, the Franklin Avenue Line was severed from the Fulton Street Elevated, and Brighton Line ...
Prospect Park station may refer to: Prospect Park station (Metro Transit), a station on the METRO Green Line, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Prospect Park station (BMT lines), a station on the BMT Brighton and Fulton Street Lines of the New York City Subway; Prospect Park station (SEPTA), a station on the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line ...
A subway connection between Prospect Park and DeKalb Avenue on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line was completed by 1920. The BMT Canarsie Line began on October 21, 1865, as the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad , a surface steam excursion railroad line for beachgoers.