Elm Place–Duffield Street station
Elm Pl. & Duffield St. | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Fulton Street between Duffield Street & Elm Place Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°41′25″N 73°59′04″W / 40.690242°N 73.984330°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | BMT Fulton Street Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | April 24, 1888 | ||||||||||
| Closed | June 1, 1940 | ||||||||||
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The Elm Place–Duffield Street station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888.[1][2][3] The station had 2 tracks and 2 offset side platforms.[4] It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line.
History
[edit]This station was served by steam locomotives between 1888 and 1899. In 1898, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899.[5] It closed on June 1, 1940,[2] when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.[3] Current rapid transit service at these intersections consists of entrances to the Hoyt Street subway station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line built in 1908.
References
[edit]- ^ "General Jourdan Congratulated on an Anspicious Opening of His Line–Rapid Transit on Fulton Street at Last". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 24, 1888. Retrieved February 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 31, 1940. Retrieved February 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "www.nycsubway.org: The Fulton Street Elevated (Brooklyn)". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ^ "Fulton Street Elevated Line". April 8, 2013. Archived from the original on April 8, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ^ "THE FULTON EL (A TRAIN)". www.robertkopolovicz.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
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