Division A (IRT) Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Brooklyn Tracks 6 | Structure Underground Opened 10 October 1920 Locale Park Slope | |
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Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line Services 2 (all times)
3 (all except late nights)
4 (late nights) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B41, B65, B67 Address Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States Similar Grand Army Plaza, Church Avenue, Junius Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Van Siclen Avenue | ||
Manhattan bound r62 3 train entering bergen street irt eastern parkway line
Bergen Street 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 and 3 trains, the latter of which is replaced by the 4 train during late nights.
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History
On October 10, 1920, three stations that were not ready to be opened with the rest of the line, at Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum, were opened.
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 to accommodate a ten-car train of 51-foot IRT cars.
Station layout
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.
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, 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 Manhattan-bound platform has the full-time turnstile bank and token booth and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue. The southbound platform's fare control area is unstaffed, 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 southwest corner of Flatbush Avenue and Bergen Street and a passageway leading to another staircase going up to the northwest corner.
In popular culture
The station was featured in one of the opening scenes in the movie Jacob's Ladder (1990).