Park Place station (BMT Franklin Avenue Line)

For the IRT station in Manhattan, see [[:Park Place (IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line)]].

Park Place
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
Borough	Brooklyn
Division
Line	BMT Franklin Avenue Line
Services	S  (all times)
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Opened	c.1900
Accessible	ADA-accessible
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	348,208  6.5%
Rank	409 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)

Park Place is a station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.

History

The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an open cut right-of-way on its route to Coney Island at Brighton Beach.

A station was established at this spot c.1900 to provide local residents access to trains of the Kings County Elevated Railway that had begun serving the line in 1896. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place.

During 1905–06, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised elevated railway and embankment structure, and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point.

The station deteriorated over the years as the New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabiliate the station and the line. Community support in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998, was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999.

The station today

The rebuilt 1999 station consists of a single platform and a single track serving trains traveling in both directions. The new, wider, station platform is built partly over the former southbound track. The large station house is built in a style reminiscent of station houses built in the World War I era on the Brighton Line at Parkside Avenue on the BMT Brighton Line and a number of stations on the BMT Sea Beach Line.

External links

• nycsubway.org – BMT Franklin: Park Place
• Station Reporter — Franklin Shuttle