Park Place (BMT Franklin Avenue Line)

For the IRT station in Manhattan, see Park Place (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line).

Park Place
New York City Subway rapid transit station
300px Station entrance from Park Place
Station statistics
Address	Park Place & Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Crown Heights
Coordinates
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Franklin Avenue Line
Services	S  (all times)
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Opened	Circa 1900 (1900)
Rebuilt	1906 (1906) (elevated railway) October 18, 1999 (1999-10-18) (shuttle refurbishment)
Accessible
Former/other names	Butler Street Sterling Place
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	602,858  1%
Rank	398
Station succession
Next north	Franklin Avenue: S  Dean Street (demolished): no regular service
Next south	Botanic Garden: S
Next north	Franklin Avenue: S
Next south	Prospect Park: S
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

Park Place is a station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is unique in the subway system for two things: being the only station in the entire subway system to be served by only a shuttle (no other services stop at this station at any time) (considering station complexes one station each) and only solitary station to have only one track.

History

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View from the station, with the Arts for Transit installation on the railings

The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an open-cut right-of-way on its route to Brighton Beach and Coney Island.

A station was established at this spot c. 1900 to provide local residents access to trains of the Kings County Elevated Railway that had begun serving the line in 1896. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place.

During 1905–6, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised elevated railway and embankment structure, and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point.

The station deteriorated over the years as the New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabilitate the station and the line. Community support in the Bedford–Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998, was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999.

Station layout

P Platform Level	Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Single track	← toward Prospect Park (Botanic Garden) → toward Franklin Avenue (Terminus) → →(No service: Dean Street)
G Street Level	Exit/ Entrance, station house (Ramp from Prospect Place west of Franklin Avenue; service in both directions on single track)

The rebuilt 1999 station consists of a single side platform and a single track serving trains traveling in both directions. The new, wider, station platform was built partly over the former southbound track. The large station house is built in a style reminiscent of station houses built in the World War I era on the BMT Brighton Line such as Parkside Avenue and a number of stations on the BMT Sea Beach Line. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, a short staircase on the south side going down to the north side of Park Place, and a long ADA-accessible ramp and staircase going to the south side of Prospect Place on the north side of the station house.

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Franklin: Park Place
• Station Reporter — Franklin Shuttle
• The Subway Nut — Park Place Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Park Place (BMT Franklin Avenue Line)
• Park Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Prospect Place entrance from Google Maps Street View