Division B (IND) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B61, B68 Platforms 1 island platform Opened 7 October 1933 Added to NRHP 27 July 2005 | Line IND Culver Line Structure Underground Address Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA Borough Brooklyn Tracks 2 | |
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Services F (all times)
G (all times) Locale Windsor Terrace, Park Slope Similar Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Coney Island USA, Fort Hamilton Parkway, Church Avenue | ||
15th Street–Prospect Park is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 15th Street and Prospect Park West in Windsor Terrace/Park Slope, Brooklyn, it is served by the F and G trains at all times.
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Station layout
This underground station, opened on October 7, 1933, as part of an extension of the Culver Line from Bergen Street to Church Avenue. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on July 27, 2005, It has two tracks and an island platform. The two express tracks of the line run under Prospect Park, and are neither visible from this station nor used in revenue service.
The station and tunnel were constructed about 100 feet (30 m) east of Prospect Park West. Therefore, the station is not located underneath a street, and some portions of the tunnel are directly underneath Prospect Park, while others are between the west side of the park and 10th Avenue.
Both trackside walls have an orange-yellow trim line with a medium brown border with small black and white "15TH ST." signs below it at regular intervals. This tile band is set in a three-high course, a pattern usually reserved for express stations. Large, white brick columns run along both sides of the platform and the mezzanine above at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black and white station name plate.
Exits
The narrow mezzanine is full length and allows out-of-system walking from one end to the other while the area inside fare control does not, having two sections, one considerably smaller than the other. The northern end has four exit stairs, the latter two of which have stone banisters:
The center of the mezzanine has one staircase going up to the north side of 16th Street while the south end has one staircase going up to the north side of Windsor Place near the intersection of Howard Place. Full height turnstiles provide access to/from fare control near these three entrances/exits. The station's only token booth and bank of regular turnstiles is located between the south and center fare control areas. Evidence of at least two former booths exist.
In popular culture
Several dream sequences in the film Pi, which take place in an empty generic-looking New York City Subway station, were shot at 15th Street–Prospect Park. In some of the shots, the sign indicating the exit to Bartel-Pritchard Square is visible in the background. The Windsor Pl. entrance is featured next to Melvin's car in the 1998 film "As Good As it Gets".