Alabama Avenue (BMT Lexington Avenue Line)
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Alabama Avenue
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||||
The station as seen from street level
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| Address | Alabama Avenue & Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11207 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||
| Locale | East New York, Cypress Hills | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°40′37″N 73°54′00″W / 40.67683°N 73.900008°WCoordinates: 40°40′37″N 73°54′00″W / 40.67683°N 73.900008°W | ||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||
| Line | BMT Jamaica Line | ||||||||||
| Services |
J  (all times)Z  (rush hours, peak direction) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: B12, B20, B25, B83, Q24, Q56
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | September 5, 1885 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2016) | 834,945  2.5% |
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| Rank | 378 out of 422 | ||||||||||
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| Next north |
Van Siclen Avenue: J  Z (J skips to Cleveland Street)
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| Next south |
Broadway Junction: J Z
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Alabama Avenue is an elevated station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Alabama Avenue and Fulton Street in East New York, Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction.
On September 5, 1885, the Brooklyn Elevated Railway was extended to Alabama Avenue, with 1,500 passengers using the station during the morning of its first day of service.
In 1985, the station had only 321 paying daily riders on a typical weekday in 1985 not counting farebeaters, making it one of the least used stations in the system.
The station was renovated from January 14, 2005 to December 19, 2005. As part of the station renovation project, the stairs were rehabilitated, the floors were renewed, major structural repairs were made, new canopies were installed, the area around the station booth was reconfigured, the platform edge strips were replaced, walls were replaced, and a high-quality public address system was installed.
This elevated station has one island platform and two tracks. The platform has a red canopy with green frames and support columns at the west (railroad south) end.
A trackway starts at the top of the station's flat canopy and runs to the elevated complex at Broadway Junction. This may have been for a planned express track above the local tracks of the BMT Jamaica Line that was never completed. This track was intended to be an express track, with work beginning on the proposed express track in the late 1960s. However, engineering studies completed after the work started indicated that the vibration of trains passing over the stations would be too severe and would literally shake the stations apart.
A nameless artwork by Scott Redden was installed here in 2008. It consists of three stained glass panels in eight of the nine station sign structures on the platform. The panels depict scenes related to farming including a farmhouse, chicken, and pick-up truck.
The street area under the station was depicted in a painting created by artist Rackstraw Downes, titled "Under the J Line at Alabama Avenue, 2007."
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