Neck Road station

Neck Road
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
View from northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Gravesend Neck Road & East 16th Street Brooklyn, New York
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Homecrest
Coordinates	40°35′42″N73°57′19″W / 40.595124°N 73.95528°W / 40.595124; -73.95528
Division	B (BMT) [1]
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	Q   (all times)
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	August 23, 1907;117 years ago (August 23, 1907)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	956,059 [2]   15.7%
Rank	299 out of 423 [2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Avenue U toward 96th Street Local Sheepshead Bay toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue does not stop here
Former services Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Race Track toward Manhattan Beach Manhattan Beach Branch King's Highway toward Manhattan Beach Junction
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Avenue U to Sheepshead Bay
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

The Neck Road station (formerly Gravesend Neck Road station) is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at Gravesend Neck Road between East 15th and East 16th Streets in Homecrest, Brooklyn. The station is served by the Q train at all times. ^[3]

History

This station opened on August 23, 1907.

On August 1, 1920, a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue opened, connecting the Brighton Line to the Broadway subway in Manhattan. ^{[4] [5]} 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. ^{[5] [6]}

This station underwent reconstruction from December 2008 to January 2010. Both platforms were rebuilt with new windscreens, canopies, and tactile strip edges. A temporary platform over the express tracks was used to provide service on the side that was under rebuilding. ^[7] In 2010, the foundation of the LIRR station was excavated to street grade to allow expansion of the station house and installation of the Manhattan-bound platform staircase. The retaining wall and staircase facing Gravesend Neck Road remain intact. Construction continued in 2011 with a mural installation along the southbound platform staircase, and preparation of retail space for newsstand occupancy.

Station layout

Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound local	← toward 96th Street (Avenue U)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (Sheepshead Bay) →
	Side platform
Ground	Street level	Entrances/exits, station building and agent, MetroCard and OMNY vending machines

Former Neck Road LIRR station

This station has two side platforms and four tracks. The center tracks are used by the B express train when it operates on weekdays. ^[8] Like the rest of the Brighton Line between Avenue H and Sheepshead Bay, it is situated on an embankment.

Both platforms have beige windscreens with green outlines and frames along their entire lengths and red canopies with green frames in the center. The station signs are in the standard black plates in white lettering and lamp posts are on all support columns of the windscreens in the non-canopied areas. The Coney Island-bound platform has a storage area above the mezzanine staircase.

Station entrance

To the east of this station are the remains of a station on the former Manhattan Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, also named Neck Road. Until the mid-1920s, this line ran parallel to the Brighton Line from just south of Avenue H, where it branched off from the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch, to Sheepshead Bay, where it diverged east to Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. While much of the Manhattan Beach right-of-way has been built over, the station foundation and staircases remain. The station had two tracks and two side platforms. A spur also branched off just south of Neck Road and crossed towards the now-razed Sheepshead Bay Race Track.

Exit

The station has one ground-level station house directly underneath the tracks and platforms on the north side of Neck Road. It has a token booth, a single standard MetroCard vending machine, small turnstile bank, two gates, and a double-wide staircase to each platform. Both staircase landings have two full height turnstiles leading directly to the sidewalk. The ones on the Coney Island-bound side are exit-only while the Manhattan-bound side has one for exit-only and another for entry and exit. ^[9]

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  Staircase leading to the southbound platform
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  Clerestory over the staircase
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  Looking at the northbound platform
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  Trackage north of station

In popular culture

This station served as part of the backdrop for a few scenes in the 1993 film A Bronx Tale , starring Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri.

References

1. "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
2. "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
3. "QSubway Timetable, Effective June 30, 2024". Metropolitan Transportation Authority . Retrieved June 28, 2024.
4. "New Subway Link Opens; Service Started Through Queens and Montague Street Tubes". The New York Times. August 1, 1920. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
5. "Montague Street Tube, Brighton Subway Operation Begun". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. August 1, 1920. p. 53. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018– via Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com.
6. Kennedy, Randy (September 30, 2003). "Tunnel Vision; Short Line. Small Train. Little Graffiti". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
7. "Press Release - NYC Transit - Temporary Loss of Brighton Line Express". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 29, 2009. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
8. Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC   49777633 – via Google Books.
9. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Sheepshead Bay" (PDF). mta.info . Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.

External links

• nycsubway.org – BMT Brighton Line: Neck Road
• Station Reporter — Q Train
• ARRT's Archives — Manhattan Beach Branch — Neck Road Station
• The Subway Nut — Neck Road Pictures
• Entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View