Seventh Avenue (BMT Brighton Line)

This article is about the New York City Subway station in Brooklyn. For the subway station in Manhattan at Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street also served by the B train, see Seventh Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line).

Seventh Avenue New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Seventh Avenue & Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Park Slope
Coordinates	40.679352°N 73.973694°W / 40.679352; -73.973694
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	B  (weekdays until 11 p.m.)       Q  (all times)
Connection	New York City Bus: B41, B67, B69
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	August 1, 1920 (August 1, 1920)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	3,064,214  1.6%
Rank	148 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Atlantic Avenue: B  Q
Next south	Prospect Park: B  Q
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

Seventh Avenue is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times and the B train on weekdays. This is one of two stations on the B train named "Seventh Avenue;" the other is Seventh Avenue on the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan.

History

Although on the BMT Brighton Line, Seventh Avenue was built almost fifty years after the main segment of the line from Prospect Park to Brighton Beach opened in 1878. Prior to its opening, trains on the line used what is now the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and a connection to the elevated BMT Fulton Street Line on their way to the line's terminus at Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn or Park Row in Manhattan.

The station is a product of the Dual Contracts, a 1913 group of contracts that provided for the construction of BMT (as well as IRT) underground lines in Manhattan and Queens. The first of these was the BMT Broadway Line which ran from its northern terminus at Times Square – 42nd Street to its southern end at Whitehall Street in 1918. The Montague Street Tunnel, which linked Whitehall Street to Prospect Park station and would be the location for Seventh Avenue, opened on August 1, 1920, and moved trains from the elevated Franklin Avenue Line to the new underground line.

Station layout

Seventh Avenue station has two tracks and two side platforms. Each platform has two closed staircases that lead to a closed portion of the mezzanine above the platforms. Just north of the station, next to the southbound track, an opening in the tunnel allows a view of the southbound local track of the IRT Eastern Parkway Line. At this point in the complex Flatbush Avenue tunnel, the IRT local tracks straddle the Brighton line tracks, while the IRT express tracks run at a lower level.

External links

• nycsubway.org — BMT Brighton Line: 7th Avenue
• Station Reporter — B Train
• Station Reporter — Q Train
• The Subway Nut — 7th Avenue Pictures
• Park Place & Carlton Avenue entrance north of Flatbush Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• entrance near Seventh Avenue from Google Maps Street View

Southbound platform