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York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

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Division
  
B (IND)

Services
  
F  (all times)

Structure
  
Underground

Opened
  
9 April 1936

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Tracks
  
2

Line
  
IND Sixth Avenue Line

Transit connections
  
NYCT Bus: B67

Platforms
  
1 island platform

Phone
  
+1 877-690-5116

Locale
  
DUMBO

York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

Address
  
York St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

Similar
  
Church Avenue, Avenue X, 75th Avenue, Ditmas Avenue, Avenue U

York Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the F train at all times, it is located at York Street and Jay Street in DUMBO and is the only Sixth Avenue Line station in Brooklyn.

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History

More than 50 years before the construction of the IND Sixth Avenue Line, let alone the station, the intersection of York and Jay Streets was between two stations on the original BMT Lexington Avenue Line. West of the intersection was York and Washington Streets station, which had a connection to the Brooklyn Bridge via the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway. One block east of the station was the Bridge Street station. The line and the two stations ran west to east, were built by Brooklyn Elevated Railroad on May 13, 1885 and closed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit on April 11, 1904.

Mass transit returned to the vicinity when the York Street subway station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from East Broadway to Jay Street, although this was more accurately a replacement for the IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan. The IND Fulton Street Line to Rockaway Avenue opened on the same day.

Station layout

This underground, deep-level station has two tracks and one narrow island platform. Located at the southern end of the Rutgers Street Tunnel, it has round deep-bore walls with matte-finish white brick tiling and purple tile border; this tiling scheme is also present on the large, circular platform columns at the center of the station. The standard I-beam columns are painted blue with alternating ones having black name plates in white lettering.

To the north of the station, the Sixth Avenue Line continues via the Rutgers Street Tunnel to Manhattan; to the south, it converges with the IND Eighth Avenue Line and ends north of Jay Street. The Sixth Avenue Line tracks continue south as the IND Culver Line.

Exit

The only exit, located at the station's north end, leads to the Rutgers Street tunnel ventilation tower at the intersection of York Street and Jay Street. It has a turnstile bank and long passageway and staircase to the platform.

Points of interest

  • Dumbo Tech Triangle
  • Farragut Houses
  • Navy Yard
  • References

    York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) Wikipedia


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