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Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum (IRT Eastern Parkway Line)

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Division
  
A (IRT)

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Opened
  
10 October 1920

Locale
  
Prospect Heights

Structure
  
Underground

Tracks
  
4 (2 on each level)

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum (IRT Eastern Parkway Line)

Line
  
IRT Eastern Parkway Line

Services
  
2  (all times)       3  (all except late nights)       4  (late nights)

Address
  
Brooklyn, NY 11238, United States

Similar
  
Botanic Garden, Grand Army Plaza, Franklin Ave, Court Street–Borough Hall, Nevins Street

Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, it is served by the 2 and 3 trains, the latter of which is replaced by the 4 train during late nights. The name of the station was originally intended to be Institute Park.

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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 Eastern Parkway, 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

There are two local tracks with two side platforms. The express tracks pass underneath the station and are not visible from the platforms. A large mosaic displays Eastern Parkway and the Brooklyn Museum. On the platforms and the eastern mezzanine are abstract art paintings, created in 1991 by artist Pat Steir and collectively called the Brueghel Series. There is an emergency exit from the express level at the south end of each platform. There is an unused western mezzanine containing turnstiles and a token booth with a door hidden in the tiles; the entrance to this mezzanine has been removed on street level.

Exits

The only two exits to this station are from the east mezzanine:

  • Eastern Parkway, south side in front of Brooklyn Museum
  • Eastern Parkway, north side mall across the street from Brooklyn Museum
  • This station is one of 100 Key Stations the MTA plans to make ADA-accessible by 2020. The 2016-2019 Capital Program allocates $32.2 million towards this project.

    References

    Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Wikipedia