Division B (BMT) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B13 Platforms 1 island platform Opened 30 May 1893 Tracks 2 | Line BMT Jamaica Line Structure Elevated Borough Brooklyn Locale East New York | |
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Services J (all times)
Z (rush hours, peak direction) Address Brooklyn, NY 11208, United States Similar Norwood Avenue, Alabama Avenue, Van Siclen Avenue, Cleveland Street, 121st Street | ||
Crescent Street is a station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Crescent and Fulton Streets in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times and the Z during rush hours in the peak direction.
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Station layout
This elevated station, opened on May 30, 1893, has two tracks and one narrow island platform. An arched canopy covers the eastern half (railroad north) of the platform.
An artwork called Wheel of Bloom – Soak Up the Sun by Jung Hyang Kim was installed in this station during a 2007 renovation. It consists of stained glass panels on the platform's sign structures showing subway train wheels lit by sunlight.
Between here and Norwood Avenue, there are the remains of a turn off for the former Chestnut Street Incline, which led to the parallel Long Island Rail Road line on Atlantic Avenue. This connection was used primarily for joint service between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and later Lower Manhattan and the beach resorts in Rockaway, Queens. A service was also operated to Jamaica, Queens for a time. The joint operation agreement and all through service via the connector was ended after the 1917 summer season. Unused by passenger service since, the ramp was taken down in 1942 for World War II scrap.
The tower that existed west of this station and controlled the incline to and from the LIRR stood until the 1970s.
Exits
The station's small, single station house is on the extreme eastern end of the platform. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and a single staircase going to an overpass below the tracks that splits into two staircases going down to either side of Fulton Street between Crescent and Pine Streets.