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The 55th Street station is a local station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 55th Street, 13th Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. It is served by the D train at all times. The station opened in 1916, and had its platforms extended in the 1960s.
The first portion of the line, between the 36th Street station on Fourth Avenue and 62nd Street station, opened on June 24, 1916, with two tracks. [6] [7] On the same date, the line opened three more stations to 18th Avenue, but with only one track in service. The second track between 62nd Street and 18th Avenue opened on July 8, 1916.
The E stops at two stations with 23rd Street in the name: 23rd Street on the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and Court Square–23rd Street on the Queens Boulevard Line in Queens. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The M stops at two stations with Myrtle Avenue in the name: Myrtle Avenue on the BMT Jamaica Line and Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues on the BMT Myrtle Avenue ...
[62] [63] The B and D run on the express tracks and the F and M run on the local tracks. [64] The next stop to the north is Seventh Avenue for B and D trains, 57th Street for F trains, and Fifth Avenue/53rd Street for M trains, while the next stop to the south is 42nd Street–Bryant Park for all service. [65] View of the station's mezzanine
50th Street station opened on June 24, 1916, along with the first portion of the BMT West End Line from 36th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line to 18th Avenue station. [3] [4] The line was originally a surface excursion railway to Coney Island, called the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad, which was established in 1862, but did not reach Coney Island until 1864. [5]
[5] [41] As part of the construction of the IND line, the H&M's 14th Street and 23rd Street stations had to be rebuilt to provide space for the IND's 14th Street and 23rd Street stations, which would be located at a similar elevation. The 19th Street station was not affected because the IND tracks were located below the H&M tracks at that point ...
The 62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the open-cut BMT Sea Beach Line and the elevated BMT West End Line.It is located at New Utrecht Avenue and 62nd Street in Borough Park and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and is served by the D and N trains at all times.
The station was built as part of the Chrystie Street Connection between the Sixth Avenue Line and the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.The Chrystie Street Connection was first proposed in 1947 as the southern end of the Second Avenue Subway (SAS), which would feed into the two bridges, allowing Sixth Avenue Line trains to access the Jamaica, Fourth Avenue, and Brighton lines in Brooklyn. [3]