Bay Parkway (BMT West End Line)

Bay Parkway
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Bay Parkway & 86th Street Brooklyn, NY 11214
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bensonhurst, Bath Beach
Coordinates	40°36′10″N 73°59′39″W / 40.602655°N 73.994293°W / 40.602655; -73.994293Coordinates: 40°36′10″N 73°59′39″W / 40.602655°N 73.994293°W / 40.602655; -73.994293
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT West End Line
Services	D  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B1, B6, B82
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	3 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened	December 29, 1916; 100 years ago (1916-12-29)
Station code
Accessible	ADA-accessible
Former/other names	Bay Parkway–22nd Avenue
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	2,578,524  8.9%
Rank	194 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	62nd Street (express): no regular service 20th Avenue (local): D
Next south	25th Avenue (local): D  Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (express): no regular service
Next north	Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center: D
Next south	Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue: D
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Bay Parkway Station (Dual System BRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference #	05000670
Added to NRHP	July 6, 2005

Bay Parkway (formerly Bay Parkway–22nd Avenue) is an express station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn at the intersection of Bay Parkway and 86th Street. The station is served by the D train at all times.

This elevated station, opened on December 29, 1916, has two island platforms and three tracks. The center track is not normally used in revenue service. Both platforms have brown canopies with green frames and support columns in their center as well as wooden benches surrounded by green windscreens. On either sides, there are windscreen-style station signs and round lampposts. There is a railroad tower at either end of the station.

This station was the terminus for the M train from 1987 to 2010 during rush hours. Although both platforms had signs indicating M trains used the center express track, they actually operated from the local tracks because there are no switches north of the station to allow trains to switch to the express track. South of the platforms, two diamond crossovers were used for M trains to relay or be stored on the center track before switching to the Manhattan-bound local one for the trip northbound.

A concrete structure was built over the steel at this station. On July 6, 2005, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 2012, the station was rehabilitated and three passenger elevators (one from each platform to the mezzanine, and one from the mezzanine to street level) were added with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

This station has one metal station house with concrete floors below the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from each platform go down to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and four staircases going down to all corners of Bay Parkway and 86th Street. The station house formerly had windows on all four sides. However, all of them except the ones on the west side have been covered with tar.