Division B (BMT) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B70 Opened 22 June 1915 Locale Sunset Park | Line BMT Fourth Avenue Line Structure Underground Borough Brooklyn Tracks 4 | |
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Services D (all times)
N (all times)
R (all times) Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange Address Brooklyn, NY 11232, United States Similar Union Street, Prospect Avenue, 25th Street, 45th Street, DeKalb Avenue | ||
36th Street is an express station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It is served by the D, N and R trains at all times.
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Station layout
36th Street is an express station with four tracks and two island platforms. R trains provide local service, while D and N trains run express (except during nights when they run local). South of here, N and R trains continue on Fourth Avenue, while D trains diverge east onto the BMT West End Line.
This is one of two "36th Street" stations served by the R train. The other is 36th Street–Northern Boulevard on the IND Queens Boulevard Line.
This station opened on June 22, 1915.
The station was overhauled from 1996 to 1998. The changes included rebuilt staircases, retiled walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights, installing ADA yellow safety treads along the platform edge, new track-beds for local and express trains and also installing some artwork around the entrance.
There was another mezzanine somewhere south of the present station, but it was closed, "stranded," and converted into a relay room when the present ramps from the West End Line were built and the station was extended northward.
Exits
The station's only two exits are from the mezzanine above the tracks at the very south end of the station. Outside fare control, two street stairs lead to the northwest corner of 4th Avenue and 36th Street. Another street stair leads to the northeast corner.
Proposed subway under 40th Street
There are three abandoned trackways south of 36th Street station. One trackway merges with the southbound local track, and the other two trackways are south of the tracks that ramp up to the BMT West End Line. The triple trackway ramps down to a lower level, under the mainline tracks, and curves slightly east before ending. On the main track level, a bellmouth going east is visible from a Manhattan-bound local train, just south of this station. When the subway was planned as part of the Triborough System, use of the South Brooklyn cut was not anticipated, and instead a four-track subway was to be built in 40th Street to reach the equivalent of the Culver and West End lines. The unused junction is to the east side of Fourth Avenue.