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Cumberland Avenue (BMT Fulton Street Line)

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Services
  
None

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Structure
  
Elevated

Opened
  
24 April 1888

Tracks
  
2

Address
  
Fulton Street and Cumberland Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238

Line
  
BMT Fulton Street Line BMT Brighton Line (until 1920)

Transit connections
  
Greene and Gates Avenues Line

Similar
  
Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York Aquarium, Brooklyn Bridge, Green‑Wood Cemetery

Cumberland Avenue was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888. The station had 2 tracks and 2 offset side platforms. It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line. This station was served by steam locomotives between 1888 and 1899. In 1898, Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899. It also had a connection to the Greene and Gates Avenues Line trolleys. It closed on June 1, 1940, when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.

References

Cumberland Avenue (BMT Fulton Street Line) Wikipedia