Flushing Avenue station (BMT Jamaica Line)
Flushing Avenue | |||||||||
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New York City Subway station (rapid transit) | |||||||||
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Address | Flushing Avenue & Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11206 | ||||||||
Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||
Locale | Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick | ||||||||
Coordinates | 40°42′02″N 73°56′31″W / 40.700683°N 73.941979°W | ||||||||
Division | B (BMT)[1] | ||||||||
Line | BMT Jamaica Line | ||||||||
Services | J (all times except weekdays 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., peak direction) M (all times except late nights) | ||||||||
Transit | NYCT Bus: B15, B43, B46, B47, B57 | ||||||||
Structure | Elevated | ||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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Opened | June 25, 1888[2] | ||||||||
Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||
2023 | 1,614,503[3] 9% | ||||||||
Rank | 201 out of 423[3] | ||||||||
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Flushing Avenue is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Flushing Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times, the M train at all times except late nights, and the Z during rush hours in peak direction.
Station layout
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P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Westbound local[5] | ← ( AM rush hours) toward Broad Street (Lorimer Street) ← toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays, Essex Street weekends (Lorimer Street) | |
Peak-direction express | No regular service | |
Eastbound local[5] | → ( PM rush hours) toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Myrtle Avenue) → → toward Template:NYCS stations except late nights (Myrtle Avenue) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent Elevator at southwest corner of Flushing Avenue and Broadway |
G | Street Level | Exit / Entrance |
This elevated station, opened on June 25, 1888, has two side platforms and three tracks. The center express track is not used in regular service. Both platforms have beige windscreens with red canopies supported by green frames and support columns along the entire length. The station signs are in the standard black plate with white lettering.
The 2006 artwork here is called Migration by Robin Holder. It features stained glass windows on the platform windscreens and station house.
Exits
There are two sets of entrance/exits at the station. One is located at an elevated station house beneath the tracks, which has two staircases from either southern corners of Flushing Avenue and Broadway, token booth, turnstile bank, a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, and a single staircase to each platform at their extreme north end. Each staircase landing has an exit-only turnstile to allow passengers to exit the station without having to go through the station house.[6] Three elevators were installed in Fall 2003 to make this station ADA accessible due to its proximity to Woodhull Hospital. One of them is at the southwest corner of Broadway and Flushing Avenue and goes up to the adjacent staircase balcony. The other two go up to the platforms from the staircase landing.[7]
The other set of entrance/exit are stairs located at the south ends of each platform. These stairs lead to Fayette Street. There was formerly another station house at this end, but it was removed. These stairs were closed in the 1980s due to high crime,[8][9][10] but were reopened in July 2017 to address potential capacity constraints from shuttle bus transfers due to reconstruction on the Myrtle Avenue Line and the 14th Street Tunnel.[11][12]
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The Broadway Line Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 25 June 1888. p. 6.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ a b This is a wrong-way concurrency in railroad direction.
- ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Williamsburg & Bedford-Stuyvesant" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Accessible Stations in the MTA Network". web.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^ Harshbarger, Rebecca; De La Hoz, Felipe (October 12, 2015). "Williamsburg, Bushwick subway entrances sealed despite ridership spike". AM New York. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ Hinds, KAte; Palazzolo, Alan (November 10, 2015). "No Exit: What Closed Subway Entrances Have to Do with Delays and Crowding". WNYC (AM). Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "Closed subway entrances". WNYC (AM). October 31, 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
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External links
- nycsubway.org – BMT Jamaica Line: Flushing Avenue
- Station Reporter — J Train
- Station Reporter — M Train
- The Subway Nut — Flushing Avenue Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Flushing Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)
- Flushing Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View