Division B (BMT) Services D (all times) Structure Elevated Opened 21 December 1917 Locale Gravesend | Line BMT West End Line Transit connections NYCT Bus: B64 Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Brooklyn | |
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Address Brooklyn, NY 11214, United States Similar 25th Avenue, Bay Parkway, Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, Norwood–205th Street, 36th Street | ||
Bay 50th Street is a local station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Bay 50th Street and Stillwell Avenue in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is served by the D train at all times. It is in front of the campus of John Dewey High School and has been adopted by its students as part of the New York City Transit Authority's Adopt-a-Station Program.
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Station layout
This station has three tracks and two side platforms. The center express track is not normally used. The station opened in 1917 as part of the West End elevated structure, which was built by the BMT as part of the Dual Contracts expansion in the 1910s. Platform extensions dating back to the 1960s are visible to the north on the northbound platform and to the south on the southbound platform, providing views of the Coney Island Complex. Track leads from the West End Line to the Coney Island Complex are located both north and south of this station. An abandoned railroad tower is located above the center of the northbound platform; it has been replaced by a modern tower, about 20 feet to the south. South of this station, the center track merges with the other two tracks.
In 2012, the station was rehabilitated with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Exits
There are two exit points, each with one stairway to each side of Stillwell Avenue: one at both northern corners of Harway Avenue at the station's extreme south end, and the other at both southern corners of Bay 50th Street in the middle.
In popular culture
Bay 50th Street was the starting point of the classic chase sequence in the 1971 movie The French Connection.