The Bergen Street station is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, located at Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It is served by the 2 train at all times, the 3 train at all times except late nights, and the 4 train during late nights.

Bergen Street  ​​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Bergen Street & Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Park Slope
Coordinates	40.680833°N 73.97511°W / 40.680833; -73.97511
Division	A (IRT)[1]
Line	IRT Eastern Parkway Line
Services	2  (all times) ​   3  (all except late nights) ​   4  (late nights, and limited rush hour service)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B37, B41, B45, B63, B65, B67, B103
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	6
Other information
Opened	October 10, 1920 (102 years ago) (1920-10-10)
Opposite- direction transfer	No
Traffic
2019	1,208,319[2]  5.9%
Rank	330 out of 424[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center 2  ​3  ​4  via 135th Street Local Grand Army Plaza 2  ​3  ​4  via Franklin Avenue–Medgar Evers College does not stop here
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Track layout Legend to Atlantic Av to Grand Army Plz
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only

History

The Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza, and Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum stations opened on October 9, 1920.[3] Service on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line had been extended from Atlantic Avenue to Utica Avenue in August 1920,[4] but the three stations were not ready to open with the rest of the line.[3] This extension was part of an expansion of the subway system known as the Dual Contracts which built not only IRT lines in Brooklyn but also those for the BMT. The BMT Brighton Line was already in use at the time but used trackage that is now part of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle; the opening of the subway line beneath Flatbush Avenue provided a more direct route to Downtown Brooklyn and, eventually, Manhattan.[3][5]

During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Bergen Street, along with those at four other stations on the Eastern Parkway Line, were lengthened to 525 feet (160 m) to accommodate a ten-car train of 51 foot (16 m) IRT cars.[6]

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
B1	Side platform
	Northbound local	← toward Wakefield–241st Street (Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center) ← toward Harlem–148th Street (Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center) ← toward Woodlawn late nights (Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center)
	Curtain wall
	Northbound express	← do not stop here
	Brighton Line	← do not stop here
		→ do not stop here →
	Southbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Curtain wall
	Southbound local	→ toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College (Grand Army Plaza) → → ( late nights) toward New Lots Avenue (Grand Army Plaza) →
	Side platform

The station contains six tracks and two side platforms: the outermost tracks are used by the IRT local trains. To the inside are the IRT express tracks, which slant upward to the inside of the outer local tracks. In between the express tracks are the BMT Brighton Line tracks. Those routes were built at the same time as the tracks at this station as part of the Dual Contracts. A full curtain wall separates the local from the express tracks, though a gap exists in the curtain wall at the end of the station.

Both platforms have their original mosaics. The name tablets read "BERGEN ST." in gold Times New Roman font on a blue background and multi-layered green border. The trim line is green with "B" tablets on them on a blue background at regular intervals. At either ends of both platforms, where they were extended in 1964–1965,[6] there are cinderblock tiles with signs reading "BERGEN ST" in sans serif font on a maroon background.

The platforms only have columns at the fare control areas and they are i-beam columns painted green.

Exits

Each platform has one same-level fare control area at the center and there are no crossovers or crossunders. The southbound platform has an unstaffed fare control area containing a bank of three regular turnstiles, two exit-only turnstiles, and two High Entry/Exit Turnstiles. Outside fare control are two staircases going up to the southwestern corner of Flatbush Avenue and Bergen Street and a passage leading to another staircase going up to the northwestern corner.[7] The Manhattan-bound platform has a full-time turnstile bank and token booth. Outside fare control are and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue, as well as a closed and sealed stair to the southwestern corner of Sixth Avenue and Bergen Street.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bergen Street (IRT Eastern Parkway Line).

• nycsubway.org
  • Brooklyn IRT: Bergen Street (text used with permission)
  • Brooklyn IRT: Map 2, Brooklyn IRT Dual Contracts (includes current and former track configurations, and provisions for future connections)

На других языках

[ru] Берген-стрит (линия Истерн-Паркуэй, Ай-ар-ти)