IND Fulton Street Line
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The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through all of central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens. The IND Rockaway Line branches off of it. It forms part of the A train.
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[edit] General characteristics
While much of the line is four tracks, its only service into Manhattan is via the two-track Cranberry Street Tunnel. Manhattan-bound trains merge into the express tracks at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station.
Under Fulton Street, the line is mainly single level. The Nostrand Avenue station is the exception with the express tracks on the upper level and local tracks on the lower level. This is partly because it was built while the old, now-demolished elevated line on the surface had to be supported.
The stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street–Hudson Street through Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard, as well as the current 3-track elevated structure, were built for the BMT Fulton Street Line in 1915 as part of BMT's portion of the Dual Contracts. The connection to the BMT was severed on April 26, 1956, and the IND was extended east (track direction south) from Euclid Avenue via a connecting tunnel and new intermediate station at Grant Avenue, with the new service beginning on April 29, 1956.
[edit] Route
Entering Brooklyn via the Cranberry Street Tunnel as a two-track line, it travels east on Cranberry Street, south on Jay Street, briefly running parallel with the IND Culver Line. It turns away from the Culver Line onto Schermerhorn Street to the six-track Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station, which it shares the Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line. At this point it becomes a four-track system until Euclid Avenue.
The line continues east under Schermerhorn Street to the intersection of Schermerhorn, 3rd Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, and thence across it, onto Lafayette Avenue and then finally onto Fulton Street.
It leaves Fulton Street via Truxton Street, crosses Broadway, curves through a corner of the BMT Yard, and crosses Jamaica Avenue onto Granville Payne Avenue. It turns east onto Pitkin Avenue to Euclid Avenue, where it interchanges with the Pitkin Avenue Yards. Here it becomes a three-track line.
Past the Grant Avenue Station, the line becomes elevated, swinging somewhat north until it is over Liberty Avenue. Just past the Rockaway Boulevard Station, the Rockaway Line branches southward. The Fulton Street lines continues over Liberty Avenue to its terminus at Lefferts Boulevard.
[edit] Stations
- Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets
- Transfer to IND Crosstown line
- Lafayette Avenue
- Clinton–Washington Avenues
- Franklin Avenue
- Nostrand Avenue (express and local trains)
- Kingston–Throop Avenues
- Utica Avenue (express and local trains)
- Ralph Avenue
- Rockaway Avenue
- Broadway Junction (express and local trains)
- Transfer to identically named stations on the Jamaica Line or the Canarsie Line.
- Liberty Avenue
- Van Siclen Avenue
- Shepherd Avenue
- Euclid Avenue (express and local trains)
- Grant Avenue
- 80th Street–Hudson Street
- 88th Street–Boyd Avenue
- Rockaway Boulevard
- 104th Street–Oxford Avenue
- 111th Street–Greenwood Avenue
- Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
[edit] Service
The line is served by the A and C trains.
| New York City Subway lines | |
|---|---|
| IRT | Manhattan: 42nd St Shuttle • Broadway-7th Av • Lenox Av • Lexington Av Bronx: Dyre Av • Jerome Av • Pelham • White Plains Rd Brooklyn/Queens: Eastern Pkwy/New Lots • Flushing • Nostrand Av Former: Original subway • 2nd Av • 3rd Av • 6th Av • 9th Av |
| BMT | Manhattan trunks and branches: 63rd St • Astoria • Broadway • Manhattan Bridge • Nassau St Eastern Division: Archer Av • Canarsie • Jamaica • Myrtle Av Southern Division: 4th Av • Brighton • Culver • Franklin Av • Sea Beach • West End Former: 3rd Av • 5th Av • Brooklyn Bridge • Fulton St • Lexington Av Former surface: Culver • West End |
| IND | Manhattan/Bronx trunks: 6th Av • 8th Av • Concourse Brooklyn/Queens: 63rd St • Archer Av • Crosstown • Culver • Fulton St • Rockaway • Queens Blvd Former: World's Fair |
| Connections | Chrystie St • 60th St |
| Future | 2nd Av |
