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* The Subway Nut — [http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/unionm/index.php Union Street Pictures] |
* The Subway Nut — [http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/unionm/index.php Union Street Pictures] |
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* MTA's Arts For Transit — [http://mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=M&station=13&xdev=1339 Union Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)] |
* MTA's Arts For Transit — [http://web.archive.org/web/20110606073450/http://mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=M&station=13&xdev=1339 Union Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)] |
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* [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.677115,-73.983328&spn=0,359.986567&z=17&lci=transit&layer=c&cbll=40.677228,-73.983256&panoid=21WG-nYiOCICM5t9pabhQg&cbp=12,336.54,,0,3.63 Union Street entrance from Google Maps Street View] |
* [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.677115,-73.983328&spn=0,359.986567&z=17&lci=transit&layer=c&cbll=40.677228,-73.983256&panoid=21WG-nYiOCICM5t9pabhQg&cbp=12,336.54,,0,3.63 Union Street entrance from Google Maps Street View] |
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Address | Union Street & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 | ||||||||
Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||
Locale | Park Slope | ||||||||
Division | B (BMT)[1] | ||||||||
Line | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | ||||||||
Services | D ![]() N ![]() R ![]() W ![]() | ||||||||
Transit | ![]() | ||||||||
Structure | Underground | ||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
Tracks | 4 | ||||||||
Other information | |||||||||
Opened | June 22, 1915[2] | ||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | No | ||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||
2023 | 1,646,253[3] ![]() | ||||||||
Rank | 197 out of 423[3] | ||||||||
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Next north | Template:NYCS next | ||||||||
Next south | Template:NYCS next | ||||||||
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Union Street is a local station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street in Brooklyn, New York City, serving the communities of Park Slope, Gowanus and Carroll Gardens. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the D and N assume local service along Fourth Avenue.
Station layout
Ground | Street level | Exit/entrance |
Platform level | Side platform | |
Northbound local | ← ![]() ← ![]() ← ![]() ← ![]() | |
Northbound express | ← ![]() ![]() | |
Southbound express | ![]() ![]() | |
Southbound local | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
Side platform |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Union_Street_BMT_Stairs.jpg/220px-Union_Street_BMT_Stairs.jpg)
This underground station, which opened on June 22, 1915,[2] has four tracks and two side platforms. The center express tracks are used by the D and N during daytime hours. A black and white curtain wall separates them from the local tracks.
Each platform has one same-level fare control area in the center and there are no crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfer between directions. The Manhattan-bound side has a fare control area, a turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs. The one on the Manhattan-bound platform goes up to the southeast corner of Union Street and Fourth Avenue while the one on the Bay Ridge-bound platform goes up to the southwest corner. The Bay Ridge-bound side has a fare control area, a turnstile bank (but without a token booth), and two street stairs.
Both platforms are columnless except for a section at their extreme north ends, where they were extended in the 1950s to accommodate the standard length of a B Division train (600 feet). Here, the columns are cream colored I-beams.
Renovations
This station was renovated twice. The first time was in the late 1970s, which including repairing the staircases and platform edges, replacing the incandescent lighting with fluorescent lighting, and replacing the original platform wall tiles and mosaic signs with cinderblock tiles that are colored white except for where the platform signs (in the standard white letting and black background) are. Here, they are colored gray.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Union_BMT_track.jpg/175px-Union_BMT_track.jpg)
This station was renovated again from 1990-1994. In addition to upgrading the same elements that were replaced in the previous overhaul, tiling on floors and track walls, the public announcement system, and safety threads along platform edges and track-beds were replaced. It also included an art installation by Emmett Wigglesworth called CommUnion.[5] It features twenty-two panels of various designs in the recessed area of the platform tiles above the station signs and other designs on the openings in the track walls.
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.
- ^ a b "Through Tube to Coney, 48 Minutes: First Train on Fourth Avenue Route Beats West End Line Eleven Minutes". http://bklyn.newspapers.com. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 22, 1915. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ^ "Arts for Transit: CommUnion". MTA Arts for Transit. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- nycsubway.org – BMT 4th Avenue: Union Street
- The Subway Nut — Union Street Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Union Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
- Union Street entrance from Google Maps Street View