Neck Road (BMT Brighton Line)
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| New York City Subway station Neck Road |
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| Station information | |
| Line | BMT Brighton Line |
| Services | Q |
| Platforms | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks | 4 |
| Other | |
| Borough | Brooklyn |
| Opened | August 23, 1907 |
| Next north | Avenue U Q |
| Next south | Sheepshead Bay Q |
Neck Road is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the Q train at all times, it is located at Gravesend Neck Road between East 15th and East 16th Streets, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay.
This local station has two side platforms and four tracks. Like the rest of the Brighton Line between Avenue H and Sheepshead Bay, it is situated on an elevated embankment. Neck Road served as part of the backdrop for a few scenes in the 1993 film A Bronx Tale, starring Robert DeNiro and Chazz Palminteri.
To the east of this station are the remains of the Neck Road station of the former Manhattan Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. Until the mid-1920s, this line ran parallel to the Brighton Line from just south of Avenue H, where it branched off the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch, to Sheepshead Bay, where it diverged east to Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. While most of the Manhattan Beach right-of-way has been built over, the staircases have been left intact. Judging from the wide spacing of these staircases, the abandoned station probably had two tracks and two side platforms.
[edit] External links
- nycsubway.org — BMT Brighton Line: Neck Road
- Station Reporter — Q Train
