Saratoga Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)
The Saratoga Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. It had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms.[3] It was built on December 3, 1888 and was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line. Saratoga Avenue replaced Ralph Avenue as the penultimate station on the line until it was expanded to Atlantic Avenue on July 4th, 1889. The next stop to the east was Rockaway Avenue. The next stop to the west was Ralph Avenue.
Saratoga Avenue | |||
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| Former New York City Subway station | |||
| Station statistics | |||
| Address | Fulton Street & Saratoga Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11233 | ||
| Borough | Brooklyn | ||
| Locale | Bedford–Stuyvesant | ||
| Coordinates | 40°40′43″N 73°54′59″W / 40.678580°N 73.916322°W | ||
| Division | B (BMT)[1] | ||
| Line | BMT Fulton Street Line | ||
| Services | None | ||
| Structure | Elevated | ||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||
| Tracks | 2 | ||
| Other information | |||
| Opened | December 3, 1888 | ||
| Closed | May 31, 1940 | ||
| Traffic | |||
| 2023 | [2] | ||
| Rank | out of 423[2] | ||
| Station succession | |||
| Next west | Ralph Avenue | ||
| Next east | Rockaway Avenue | ||
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In 1936, the Independent Subway System built their own Fulton Street subway, but unlike the next stops to the west and east, it did not add a subway station to compete with Saratoga Avenue.[4][5] The el station became obsolete, and it closed on May 31, 1940.[6]
References
edit- ^ "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 "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Fulton Street El". StationReporter.net. Archived from the original on 2014-10-19.
- ^ "Two Subway Links Start Wednesday". The New York Times. April 6, 1936. p. 23. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ "NEW SUBWAY LINK OPENED BY MAYOR; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut". The New York Times. April 9, 1936. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- ^ "Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 31, 1940. Retrieved February 19, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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