77th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

77th Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Manhattan-bound platform
Station statistics
Address	77th Street & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11209
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bay Ridge
Coordinates	40°37′42.59″N 74°1′33.37″W / 40.6284972°N 74.0259361°W / 40.6284972; -74.0259361Coordinates: 40°37′42.59″N 74°1′33.37″W / 40.6284972°N 74.0259361°W / 40.6284972; -74.0259361
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services	R  (all times)
Transit connections	New York City Bus: B4; B37 (on Third Avenue); B63 (on Fifth Avenue)
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	January 15, 1916 (102 years ago) (1916-01-15)
Station code	037
Accessible	not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	1,743,795  1.2%
Rank	280 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Bay Ridge Avenue: R
Next south	86th Street: R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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77th Street is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the R train at all times and is located at 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

This underground station, which opened on January 15, 1916, has two side platforms and two tracks. Both platforms have cinderblock tiles on white and orange, which replaced the station's original mosaic trim line and name tablets during a renovation in the late 1970s. The renovation also replaced incandescent lights with fluorescent lights and installed new staircases and platform edges. The station signs are in the standard black name plate with white lettering installed on the orange tiling. There are also small white text directing to the station entrances/exits.

Both platforms have yellow columns that run at regular intervals along the entire length. Alternating ones have the standard black and white station name plate. The columns are round in the center and i-beams at either ends (where the platforms were extended in the 1950s to accommodate the current standard length of a B Division train of 600 feet).

The station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for a possible extension of the express tracks south of 59th Street. As a result of the possibility of the extension of the express tracks, there is space underneath the northbound platform for an additional trackway at this station for the Bay Ridge-bound express track. This also can be found at Bay Ridge Avenue.

The station's full-time entrance is a mezzanine at the south end above the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from each platform go up to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the system. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going up to either northern corners of 77th Street and Fourth Avenue. The northwest staircase has its original ornate banisters and railings. Inside the mezzanine, there are mosaics indicating a newsstand and two restrooms, all of which are now defunct, and directing to each platform.