Flatbush Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)

For other uses, see Flatbush Avenue (disambiguation).

Flatbush Ave.
General information
Location	Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates	40°41′20″N73°58′51″W / 40.688923°N 73.980950°W / 40.688923; -73.980950
Line(s)	BMT Fulton Street Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	April 24, 1888;137 years ago (1888-04-24)
Closed	June 1, 1940;85 years ago (1940-06-01)
Former services
Preceding station BMT Lines Following station Elm Place–Duffield Street toward Park Row or Fulton Ferry 13: Fulton Street Local Lafayette Avenue toward Lefferts Avenue

The Flatbush Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The station had 2 tracks and 1 island platform. ^[4] It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line. The station was located west of the BMT Fifth Avenue Line, but had no connection to that elevated line. It was also located north of the Flatbush Avenue station on the Long Island Rail Road, now known as the Atlantic Terminal, and had no connections there either. ^[5]

This station was served by steam locomotives between 1888 and 1899. In 1898, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899. ^[6] It closed on June 1, 1940, ^[2] when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership. ^[3] Current mass transit stations available nearby are either at Nevins Street subway station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line to the southeast, or at DeKalb Avenue subway station on the BMT Fourth Avenue and Brighton Lines to the northwest.

References

1. "General Jourdan Congratulated on an Anspicious Opening of His Line–Rapid Transit on Fulton Street at Last". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 24, 1888. Retrieved February 19, 2016– via Newspapers.com.
2. "Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 31, 1940. Retrieved February 19, 2016– via Newspapers.com.
3. "www.nycsubway.org: The Fulton Street Elevated (Brooklyn)". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
4. "Fulton Street Elevated Line". April 8, 2013. Archived from the original on April 8, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
5. 1912 BMT Route Map (NYCSubway.org)
6. "THE FULTON EL (A TRAIN)". www.robertkopolovicz.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2016.