Parkside Avenue station
The Parkside Avenue station is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line, located at Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. It is served by the 1 and 7 trains at all times, and has two side platforms and four tracks.
This station was originally built sometime before 1895 by the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad as Flatbush station. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, it was acquired by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, and reopened in 1905 as a two-track station named Woodruff Avenue.
On June 20, 1917, the New York State Public Service Commission approved a resolution directing the New York Municipal Railway to construct an additional exit staircase from the proposed station's southbound platform to Ocean Avenue north of Woodruff Avenue.
This portion of the line was rebuilt from a two-track open cut to a four-track open cut in 1919.
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[edit]
| Side platform |
|---|
| ← BMT 1 toward Queensboro Plaza or Chambers Street AM rush hours (Prospect Park) ← BMT 7 toward Franklin Avenue (Prospect Park) |
| ← BMT 1 does not stop here weekdays and Saturdays |
| BMT 1 does not stop here weekdays and Saturdays → |
| BMT 1 toward Stillwell Avenue (Church Avenue) → BMT 7 toward Stillwell Avenue (Church Avenue) → |
| Side platform |