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Bay Parkway was known as 22nd Avenue until the 1930s, when the name was changed to facilitate large-scale apartment-type residential development.Its renaming as a parkway was first proposed in the state legislature in 1892, along with Bay Ridge Parkway, and Fort Hamilton Parkway, placing the road under the jurisdiction of the Brooklyn Parks Department. [4]
Bay Parkway opened on July 29, 1916, as part of an extension of the BMT West End Line from 18th Avenue to 25th Avenue.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. [4]
The Bay Parkway station (formerly known as 22nd Avenue station) is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway, located in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn at the intersection of Bay Parkway and West Seventh Street. It is served by the N train at all times. During rush hours, several W trains also serve this station
The Bay Parkway station (originally 22nd Avenue–Bay Parkway station) is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located in Midwood, Brooklyn at the intersection of Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue above Washington Cemetery.
Bay Parkway (Brooklyn) in Brooklyn, New York City Bay Parkway (IND Culver Line), a subway station at McDonald Avenue; serving the F and <F> trains; Bay Parkway (BMT Sea Beach Line), a subway station at West Seventh Street; serving the N and W trains; Bay Parkway (BMT West End Line), a subway station at 86th Street; serving the D train
Jackie Robinson Pkwy., Vermont Pl., Cypress Hills St. & Highland Blvd. Highland Park: Only remaining component of municipal water system built by independent city of Brooklyn in the mid-19th century; part of unified city water system until 1989
The B6 began as the Bay Parkway bus, initiated by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, or the BMT, on August 24, 1931. [ citation needed ] In 1968, service on Cozine Avenue was supplemented by the new B84 bus (different from the current B84), [ 4 ] which was later merged into the B6.
The other service pattern was the "West End Short Line", a rush-hour local (on Fourth Avenue) service between the BMT Nassau Street Line in Lower Manhattan and 62nd Street or Bay Parkway. It became part of the TT in the early 1960s and was discontinued in 1967.