Bedford–Nostrand Avenues |
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New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||
Queens bound platform
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Station statistics | |||||||
Address | Lafayette Avenue between Nostrand Avenue & Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11216 |
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Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
Locale | Bedford-Stuyvesant | ||||||
Coordinates | 40°41′23″N 73°57′13″W / 40.689587°N 73.953567°WCoordinates: 40°41′23″N 73°57′13″W / 40.689587°N 73.953567°W | ||||||
Division | B (IND) | ||||||
Line | IND Crosstown Line | ||||||
Services | G (all times) | ||||||
Transit connections | NYCT Bus: B38, B44, B44 SBS | ||||||
Structure | Underground | ||||||
Platforms | 2 island platforms cross-platform interchange |
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Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | ||||||
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Opened | July 1, 1937 | ||||||
Wireless service | |||||||
Traffic | |||||||
Passengers (2015) | 2,634,066 4.8% | ||||||
Rank | 189 out of 425 | ||||||
Station succession | |||||||
Next north | Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues: G | ||||||
Next south | Classon Avenue: G | ||||||
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Bedford–Nostrand Avenues is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Lafayette Avenue between Bedford and Nostrand Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the G train at all times.
This underground station opened on July 1, 1937, as part of the extension of the Crosstown Line from Nassau Avenue to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets. This station has three tracks and two island platforms. Both outer track walls have a lime green trim line with a darker green border (formerly crimson red). Below the trim line are small black signs at regular intervals that alternate between "BEDFORD" and "NOSTRAND" in white lettering. Both platforms have green i-beam columns (formerly painted red) on each at regular intervals, with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering.
This station has a full-length mezzanine above the platforms and tracks with staircases to each side at regular intervals that connect the two fare control areas. The full-time one is at the north (geographical east) end. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases going up to the western corners of Nostrand and Lafayette Avenues. The fare control area at the south (geographical west) end of the mezzanine is unstaffed, containing just full height turnstiles and two staircases to either eastern corners of Bedford and Lafayette Avenues. The two staircases on the western corners are exit-only and signed as "No Entry". They had been previously boarded-up, with a gate sealing off the passageway towards the stairs.
The middle track is used for storage of rush hour trains, or for maintenance and refuse trains. West (railroad south) of this station, the center track has switches to the two outer tracks before ending at a bumper block, while the trackway continues into Classon Avenue. East (railroad north) of the station, the middle track splits into two tracks that ramp down under the outer tracks before those tracks curve north. The tail tracks continue to Marcy Avenue and end at bumper blocks. A signal and switch tower is located in the tunnel north of the station, staffed during rush hour and midday service, but primarily used during construction reroutes if trains need to be terminated at the station.