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The Franklin Avenue/Botanic Garden station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Eastern Parkway Line and the BMT Franklin Avenue Line.Located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, the complex consists of two distinct stations, connected by a passageway within fare control, and is named for its proximity to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
At the Franklin Avenue station, all four tracks of the Eastern Parkway Line are on the same level, [167] [171] and the S (Franklin Avenue Shuttle) train crosses over the Eastern Parkway Line. [171] The Broadway Junction station on the A , C , J , L , and Z trains is located at the extreme eastern end of the Eastern Parkway Extension.
The Eastern Parkway branch and Eastern Parkway Learning Center is located at 1044 Eastern Parkway at Schenectady Avenue. It is a two-story, limestone-clad Carnegie library branch with 12,000 square feet (1,100 m 2) of floor space. The branch was renovated at least four times, most recently in 2016. [83]
The Eastern Parkway Line continues as a four-track line under Fulton Street, then turns southeast under Flatbush Avenue, which also has the BMT Brighton Line beneath it. The first station along this segment is Nevins Street , which contains a never used lower level, and then joins Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center , the end of the oldest ...
Kingston Avenue station was constructed as part of the Eastern Parkway Line. The line's section to Atlantic Avenue was part of Contract 2 of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s plan to construct an extension of the original subway, Contract 1. Contract 2 extended the original line from City Hall in Manhattan to Atlantic Avenue in ...
Nostrand Avenue station was constructed as part of the Eastern Parkway Line. The line's section to Atlantic Avenue was part of Contract 2 of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s plan to construct an extension of the original subway, Contract 1. Contract 2 extended the original line from City Hall in Manhattan to Atlantic Avenue in ...
Groundbreaking for the IRT extension took place on May 23, 1914. [7] [8] The Prospect Park Plaza station, at Grand Army Plaza was to be one of the stations on the IRT extension. [8] The Grand Army Plaza station was built as part of section 1A of the Eastern Parkway Line, stretching between the plaza and St. Mark's Avenue.
[8] [9] The Bergen Street station was to be one of the stations on the IRT extension. [9] Service on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line had been extended from Atlantic Avenue to Utica Avenue in August 1920, [10] but the Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza, and Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum stations were not ready to open with the rest of the line.