Division A (IRT) Platforms 2 side platforms Opened 10 October 1920 Locale Prospect Heights | Structure Underground Tracks 4 (2 on each level) Borough Brooklyn | |
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:
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.