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Brighton Beach (BMT Brighton Line)

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Division
  
B (BMT)

Transit connections
  
NYCT Bus: B68

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Locale
  
Brighton Beach

Line
  
BMT Brighton Line

Structure
  
Elevated

Rebuilt
  
1917 (current station)

Tracks
  
4

Brighton Beach (BMT Brighton Line)

Services
  
B  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)       Q  (all times)

Platforms
  
2 island platforms cross-platform interchange

Address
  
Brooklyn, NY 11235, United States

Similar
  
Coney Island, Newkirk Plaza, Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, Kings Highway, Bedford Park Boulevard

Brighton Beach is an express/terminal station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located over Brighton Beach Avenue at Brighton Sixth Street in the community of Brighton Beach on Coney Island in Brooklyn.

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Station layout

Brighton Beach has two island platforms and four tracks. The weekday-only B train (Brighton – Sixth Avenue Express) terminates here on the inner express tracks while the full-time Q train (Brighton Local – Broadway Express) stops here on the outer local tracks and continues to Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue. The platforms are canopied for their entire length except for small portions at either ends. There are two elevated structures above the express tracks used for office and maintenance space.

This station has two entrances/exits, both of which are elevated station houses beneath the tracks. The full-time side is at the north end and has two staircases from each platform, a large waiting area inside fare control, regular turnstile bank, and token booth. Outside of fare control, there are three street stairs, two that join together at the station house balcony and go down to either southern corners of Brighton Seventh Street and Brighton Beach Avenue and one to the northwest corner. Instead of a staircase, the northeast corner has a narrow, enclosed escalator that always goes up and thus can only be used to enter the station.

The second station house has a single staircase from each platform and a pair of twin staircases going down to either side of Brighton Beach Avenue between Brighton Fifth and Brighton Sixth Streets. The token booth and regular turnstile bank here is only open weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Two HEET turnstiles provide access to/from this entrance at other times.

Between this station and Ocean Parkway, the line becomes six tracks. The local and express tracks split into an extra storage track in-between them in both directions. These tracks are commonly used for storing B trains during midday hours or when service is about to start or end and each ends at a bumper block next to the platforms at Ocean Parkway.

East of this station, there are crossovers and switches used by terminating B trains. The Brighton Line curves north and becomes an embankment after crossing Neptune Avenue on the approach to Sheepshead Bay.

This station was renovated in the mid to late 1990s and included installation of decorative awnings on all street stairs. The 1999 artwork here is called Mermaid/Dionysus and the Pirates by Dan George and features aluminum sculptures on both platforms.

Exits

The station has 2 exit points, each of which has 4 sets of stairs.

  • The eastern (main) exit stairs are located between Brighton 7th Street and Coney Island Avenue. There is an escalator in place of one of the stairs on the northern side of Brighton Beach Avenue at Coney Island Avenue.
  • The western exit is located between Brighton 5th and 6th Streets.
  • References

    Brighton Beach (BMT Brighton Line) Wikipedia