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The Fulton Street Line, also called the Fulton Street Elevated or Kings County Line, was an elevated rail line mostly in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.It ran above Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, in Downtown Brooklyn east to East New York, and then south on Van Sinderen Avenue (southbound) and Snediker Avenue (northbound), east on Pitkin Avenue, north on Euclid Avenue, and ...
Under Fulton Street, the line is mainly single level, except at Nostrand Avenue, where the express tracks are on the upper level and the local tracks are on the lower level. [3] During the subway line's construction in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the old, now-demolished BMT Fulton Street Elevated (which the IND line replaced) had to be ...
Fulton Street Line (elevated), a former elevated rail line mostly in Brooklyn, New York, that ran above Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry Downtown Brooklyn east to East New York, continuing to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens, that ran 1888–1940
On November 28, 1948, the Independent Subway System opened the underground Van Siclen Avenue Subway station as an extension of the IND Fulton Street Line directly underneath the el station after years of war-time construction delays. This station rendered the elevated station obsolete, and it closed on April 26, 1956.
The KCERy ran only one rapid transit mainline, the Fulton Street Elevated, beginning in 1888, [1] [2] [3] but it was one of the most lucrative in Brooklyn, operating from Fulton Ferry, through the heart of the downtown area, then through the center of the borough, and the communities of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville and East New York to City Line.
Southeastern stair. 104th Street was one of the six stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street through Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard, as well as the current three track elevated structure, built for the BMT Fulton Street Line in 1915 as part of BMT's portion of the Dual Contracts.
The route of the line through East New York was established in May 1930, with the line turning off Fulton Street at Truxton Street, before running via Norman Place and under private property before traveling underneath Liberty Avenue to 80th Street, where it would connect to the elevated line. [6]
elevated: Line from Ditmas Avenue to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue taken over by the IND in 1954 [b] May 11, 1975 Remainder of line to Ninth Avenue abandoned, then demolished in 1985. B Fulton Street Line: Brooklyn: 1888–1894 a) May 31, 1940 b) April 26, 1956 elevated a) Line demolished west of Rockaway Avenue.