Newkirk Plaza station

This article is about the New York City Subway station at the Newkirk Plaza shopping mall in Flatbush, Brooklyn. For the station at Newkirk and Nostrand Avenues, see Newkirk Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line).

Newkirk Avenue  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
Borough	Brooklyn
Division
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	B  (weekday rush hours, middays and early evenings) ​   Q  (all times)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	original station: July 2, 1878 current station: 1907(?)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	2,170,621  7.4%
Rank	151 out of 423
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 during the day Stops weekends during the day Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction Stops all times except nights and rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

Newkirk Plaza and station

Newkirk Avenue is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in an open cut at the center of the Newkirk Plaza shopping mall, bounded by Newkirk Avenue on the north, Foster Avenue on the south, Marlborough Road to the west, and East 16th Street to the east, in the community of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

It was opened around 1900 as a two-track surface station named South Midwood, a reference to its location at the southern end of the former Town of Flatbush, which was also historically known as Midwood. Currently, Midwood is considered to be the area south of where the station now stands, so it would now more correctly be described as being in South Flatbush or North Midwood.

When on the surface, the station was a division point at which short-lined elevated trains of the Fulton Street Elevated lines terminated. After grade crossings were eliminated c. 1907 the station became a through stop for all services; at this time it was renamed "Newkirk Avenue."

In films

This station appeared in the Futurama episode The Luck of the Fryrish and was portrayed as being in Fry's old neighborhood. It also appeared in the films Next Stop Greenwich Village[1] and Man Push Cart.

Bus connection

• B8 west to Borough Park and Bay Ridge; east to Flatbush and Canarsie via 18 Avenue & via Avenue D

See also

• Transportation to Coney Island

External links

• nycsubway.org – BMT Brighton Line: Newkirk Avenue
• Station Reporter — B Train
• Station Reporter — Q Train