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Atlantic Avenue (Brooklyn IRT)

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Atlantic Avenue Station · Opened 5/1/1908

Our next stop is Atlantic Avenue, a complex three-platform station. Express trains use the island platform shared by the two center tracks while the locals use the two wall platforms. This station is currently being rebuilt from the tracks to the roof. On the center platform there are two old indicator signs indicating next train, used for non-rush hour short turn trains. The trackway to the LIRR is still visible at the north end of the northbound local track although much of it is behind corrugated wall. Rumors abound about this trackway, including whether or not a track ever existed! Stan Fischler's book The Subway, in the chapter on Belmont's private car Mineola, suggests that it did. Other evidence indicates that if in fact track was ever laid in the trackway it was covered over by 1920 and disconnected entirely from the IRT and the switches removed in 1922. (A fine site discussing this LIRR connection is located at aRRts aRRchives.) The LIRR platforms are clearly visible on the other side of floor to ceiling railings. The northbound local trackway and track have been completely redone with concrete base and welded rail. An old style sign to the Brooklyn Academy of Music still exists.
Area Track Map

Some relatives depths of stations in the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street complex are as follows (measurements unscientific, +/- 10 feet):

  • LIRR Station, 20 feet below street
  • IRT Station, 20 feet below street
  • BMT (D/Q) Station, 50 feet below street
  • BMT (M/N/R) Station, 40 feet below street

Artwork: Hook, Line, and Sinker, George Trakas (2004)

Artwork: Steps to the Subway, Tim Connor


(image 101212) (279k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 5/30/2009
Notes: Platform view.
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 404


(image 101211) (245k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 3
Car: R62 (Kawasaki, 1983-1985) 1587
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 5/30/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 421


(image 92105) (232k, 930x618)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Car: R142 6939
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 9/30/2008
Notes: Atlantic Avenue inbound.
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 1197


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 3
Car: R62 (Kawasaki, 1983-1985) 1379
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 9/30/2008
Notes: Atlantic Avenue inbound.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 823


(image 92287) (234k, 930x640)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 9/30/2008
Notes: Atlantic Avenue station name tilework.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 410


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Car: R142 6867
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 6/24/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1205


(image 87100) (260k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 4
Car: R142 7155
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 6/24/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 1473


(image 82818) (246k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 4/6/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 685


(image 82819) (262k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 4/6/2008
Notes: Mezzanine under IRT platforms.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1310


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
Date: 4/6/2008
Notes: Original headhouse.
Viewed (this week/total): 11 / 1729


(image 101126) (233k, 1024x768)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Andre Samuel
Date: 4/6/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 581


(image 78772) (251k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 12/28/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1146


(image 75836) (114k, 800x600)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Phillip Lee
Date: 9/30/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 1486


(image 71203) (194k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 3
Car: R62 (Kawasaki, 1983-1985) 1466
Photo by: Leonard Wilson
Date: 8/11/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 1925


(image 67624) (231k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 6/19/2007
Notes: Staircase closed during renovations, express platform.
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 2734


(image 65996) (109k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 3
Car: R62 (Kawasaki, 1983-1985) 1605
Photo by: Philip D'Allesandro
Date: 5/12/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 2166


(image 56377) (144k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Photo by: Aliandro Brathwaite
Date: 11/24/2006
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 2840


(image 46119) (194k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 2
Car: R142 6881
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 12/30/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 7 / 4884


(image 46120) (193k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 2
Car: R142 6881
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 12/30/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3799


(image 47617) (167k, 864x548)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: Brooklyn IRT
Location: Atlantic Avenue
Route: 5
Car: R142 6872
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 12/30/2005
Viewed (this week/total): 7 / 4036


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