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With the opening of the Chrystie Street Connection on November 26, 1967, D service was rerouted via this connection, the north side of the Manhattan Bridge, and the BMT Brighton Line in Brooklyn. F service replaced it on the IND Culver Line, with trips running to Coney Island at all times, with supplemental trips to Church Avenue during rush hours.
The subway portion of the IND Culver Line was originally designated the Brooklyn Line but has also been called the Smith Street Line, [13] [14] Church Avenue Line, South Brooklyn Line, and various other names. The express tracks beneath Prospect Park are sometimes referred to as the Prospect Park Line. [15]
Canarsie Line: Brooklyn Manhattan L October 21, 1865 [13] underground, elevated, at-grade B : Concourse Line: Bronx Manhattan B D July 1, 1933 [9] underground B Crosstown Line: Brooklyn Queens G August 19, 1933 [9] underground B : Culver Line: Brooklyn F <F> G March 16, 1919 [7] underground, elevated: A
There are 170 New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn (171 if 75th Street–Elderts Lane, which is located in both Brooklyn and Queens, is included). [^ 1] When transfer stations with two or more non-adjacent platforms are counted as one station, the number of stations is 157.
New York City mayor John Francis Hylan's original plans for the Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in 1922, included building over 100 miles (160 km) of new lines and taking over nearly 100 miles (160 km) of existing lines, which would compete with the IRT and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the two major subway operators of the time.
The poor woman’s fiery death came just as Gov. Kathy Hochul sent 250 more National Guard troops into the Big Apple’s subway system for the holiday rush — swelling its $100 million subway ...
A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then ... at the Jay and York Street station on the F line, according ...
On October 30, 1954, [16] the connection between the IND Brooklyn Line at Church Avenue and the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue opened, allowing IND trains to operate all the way to the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue terminal. [17] In 1958, there was a program in which subway riders could get their clothes dry cleaned at the station for a fee ...