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The Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station (formerly Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street station) is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, the BMT Brighton Line and the IRT Eastern Parkway Line.
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]
Barclays Center (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i z / BAR-kleez) [9] is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association. [10]
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 section of the line. Between Bergen Street and Grand Army Plaza , the line splits around the BMT Brighton Line.
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 4 1776 , and the full original line ...
The next station to the north is 25th Street for local trains and Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center for express trains. The next station to the south is 45th Street for local trains, 59th Street for express N trains, and Ninth Avenue for West End D trains. [44]
On Sunday, Nov. 3, the basketball team took the New York City subway transit system to their 3:30 p.m. game at Barclays Center against the Brooklyn Nets, all due to the massive gridlock caused by ...
The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map; Brooklyn is located on the bottom-center portion of the map. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.