Editing Cortelyou Road station

The '''Cortelyou Road station''' is a local station on the [[BMT Brighton Line]], located at Cortelyou Road between Marlborough Road (East 15th Street) and East 16th Street in Brooklyn, New York. It is served by the 1 and 7 trains at all times, and has two side platforms and four tracks.

The station, and the road it is named after, are named for 17th-century tutor and surveyor Jacques Cortelyou, who had a hand in the establishment of New Utrecht.

The original station at this location was opened around 1900 as a two-track street-level side platform station running south from a grade crossing at Avenue C. The station was established to serve the commercial area of Avenue C, a major thoroughfare which boasted the only east–west streetcar line between Church Avenue in Flatbush and Sheepshead Bay. The current station house and below-grade platforms were completed at the end of 1907. At the same time, the station was renamed from Avenue C to Cortelyou Road.

On August 1, 1920, a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue opened, connecting the Brighton Line to the Broadway subway in Manhattan. At the same time, the line's former track connections to the Fulton Street Elevated were severed. Subway trains from Manhattan and elevated trains from Franklin Avenue served Brighton Line stations, sharing the line to Coney Island.
==Station layout==
{| class="wikitable"
!Side platform
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|← [[1 (BMT rapid transit service)|BMT 1]] toward [[Queensboro Plaza station|Queensboro Plaza]] or [[Chambers Street station (BMT Nassau Street Line)|Chambers Street]] AM rush hours <small>([[Beverley Road station|Beverley Road]])</small><br>← [[7 (BMT rapid transit service)|BMT 7]] toward [[Franklin Avenue station (BMT lines)|Franklin Avenue]] <small>(Beverley Road)</small>
|-
|← BMT 1 does not stop here weekdays and Saturdays
|-
|BMT 1 does not stop here weekdays and Saturdays →
|-
|[[1 (BMT rapid transit service)|BMT 1]] toward [[Stillwell Avenue station|Stillwell Avenue]] <small>([[Newkirk Avenue station (BMT Brighton Line)|Newkirk Avenue]])</small> →<br>[[7 (BMT rapid transit service)|BMT 7]] toward Stillwell Avenue <small>(Newkirk Avenue)</small> →
|-
!Side platform
|}
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