Station: Atlantic Avenue (IRT Brooklyn Line)
From nycsubway.org
| IRT Brooklyn Line |
Overview
Opened: 5/1/1908
Transfer here to: BMT Brighton Line, BMT 4th Avenue Line
Four tracks, two side and one island platform. Express trains use the island platform shared by the two center tracks while the locals use the two wall platforms. 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.
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
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Artwork
Hook, Line, and Sinker, George Trakas (2004)
Steps to the Subway, Tim Connor
Photo Gallery
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