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The Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line's Brooklyn branch carried the express services to 242nd Street or via the Lenox Avenue Line when the Clark Street Tunnel opened in 1919 [46] [47] (express service to 242nd Street was eliminated in 1959 [139]).
Planning and design for a post office in the then-independent city of Brooklyn, New York, began in 1885.During his three-year tenure (1884–86), [2] Mifflin E. Bell, supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, designed the building in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture.
Broadway is an avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that extends from the East River in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in a southeasterly direction to East New York for a length of 4.32 miles (6.95 km). It was named for the Broadway in Manhattan.
Gates Avenue is the oldest station in the subway system to have been built as a rapid transit station; it has been serving BMT trains since 1885. While Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue is the oldest station currently in operation in the New York City Subway system, having originally opened in 1869 as a Long Island Rail Road station, that station had an 8-year disruption in service while being ...
The Flushing Avenue station is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of Flushing Avenue and Broadway in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction and the M train at all times except late nights.
It has a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside fare control, two staircases lead to both western corners of Kossuth Place, Patchen Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, and Broadway, just east of Kosciuszko Street. [5] The western exits are now emergency exits leading to both eastern corners of DeKalb Avenue and Broadway. These exits were closed in the ...
[6] [7] [8] The previous station located nearby at Broadway and Stuyvesant Avenue was then closed. [9] The Myrtle Avenue Line was extended from this station to Wyckoff Avenue on July 21, 1889. [10] The BMT Myrtle Avenue Line from Broadway to Bridge–Jay Streets closed on October 4, 1969, and was replaced via transfer to the B54 bus toward Jay ...
Prior to the consolidation of Williamsburg and Greenpoint into the city of Brooklyn in 1855, what is now Manhattan Ave. existed in two unconnected segments. The segment in Williamsburg was called Ewen Street (signs can still be seen in the masonry of some buildings) and the segment in Greenpoint was named Orchard Street below Greenpoint Avenue ...