Bay Ridge–95th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
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Bay Ridge–95th Street
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||
Station platform.
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| Address | 95th Street & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11209 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
| Locale | Fort Hamilton | ||||||
| Coordinates | 40°36′58.2″N 74°1′52.4″W / 40.616167°N 74.031222°WCoordinates: 40°36′58.2″N 74°1′52.4″W / 40.616167°N 74.031222°W | ||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||
| Line | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | ||||||
| Services |
R  (all times) |
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| Transit connections |
 New York City Bus: B8, B63
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||
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| Opened | October 31, 1925 | ||||||
| Former/other names | 95th Street–Fort Hamilton | ||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 1,865,038  0.4% |
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| Rank | 258 out of 422 | ||||||
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| Next north |
86th Street: R
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| Next south | (Terminal): R
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Bay Ridge–95th Street (originally 95th Street–Fort Hamilton) is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Despite the name, the station is actually located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Hamilton (as its original name implies) at the intersection of 95th Street and Fourth Avenue. It is served by the R train at all times.
This underground station opened on October 31, 1925, with the first train leaving at 2 p.m. Refurbished in the late 1970s, the station has two tracks and one island platform. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the south end of the platform. It was the last to be built for the Fourth Avenue Line and is geographically the westernmost in the subway.
Both platform walls have their original mosaic trim line with name tablets reading "95TH STREET." in Times New Roman font along the entire station except for a small section at the north end, where the platform was extended in the 1950s to accommodate the current standard "B" Division train length of 600 feet. Here, the wall is bare black. The platforms were originally 530 feet in length.
The station was constructed with a signal tower and dispatcher's office.
North of this station, a center layup track forms just north of the diamond crossover, before ending at a bumper block just south of 86th Street.
The station has two mezzanines above the platform and tracks, but mosaic directional signs indicate they were originally one full-length mezzanine. The closed-off sections are now used for employee-only spaces. The station's larger, full-time mezzanine is at the south end. It has two staircases from each platform, turnstile bank, token booth, two restrooms, and two staircases going up to either western corners of Fourth Avenue and 95th Street. A passageway leads to another staircase on the east side of the intersection, built inside an alcove of 9425 Fifth Avenue. The station's other mezzanine is unstaffed, containing one staircase from the platform, High Entry/Exit Turnstiles, and two staircases going up to either southern corners of 93rd Street and Fourth Avenue. Additional exits were planned at 94th Street, but were never built.
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