Cortelyou Road (BMT Brighton Line)
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Cortelyou Road
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||
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| Address | Cortelyou Road & East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY 11226 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
| Locale | Ditmas Park, Flatbush | ||||||
| Coordinates | 40°38′30″N 73°57′51″W / 40.641597°N 73.9643°WCoordinates: 40°38′30″N 73°57′51″W / 40.641597°N 73.9643°W | ||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||
| Line | BMT Brighton Line | ||||||
| Services |
Q  (all times) |
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| Transit connections |
 MTA Bus: B103, BM1, BM2, BM4
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| Structure | Open-cut | ||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||
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| Opened | original station: c. 1900 | ||||||
| Rebuilt | current station: 1907 | ||||||
| Station code | 046 | ||||||
| Former/other names | Avenue C | ||||||
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| Passengers (2016) | 1,978,254  0.9% |
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| Rank | 255 out of 422 | ||||||
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| Next north |
Beverley Road: Q
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| Next south |
Newkirk Plaza: Q
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Cortelyou Road is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway, located at Cortelyou Road between Marlborough Road (East 15th Street) and East 16th Street in the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times.
The station, and the road it is named after, are named for 17th-century tutor and surveyor Jacques Cortelyou, who had a hand in the establishment of New Utrecht.
The original station at this location was opened around 1900 as a two-track street-level side platform station running south from a grade crossing at Avenue C. The station was established to serve the commercial area of Avenue C, a major thoroughfare which boasted the only east-west streetcar line between Church Avenue in Flatbush and Sheepshead Bay. The current station house and below-grade platforms were completed at the end of 1907. At the same time, the station was renamed from Avenue C to Cortelyou Road.
During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Cortelyou Road, along with those at six other stations on the Brighton Line, were lengthened to 615 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 60-foot IND cars, or a nine-car train of 67-foot BMT cars.
Rehabilitation work on the platforms was performed in 1994.
From July to October 28, 2013, the northbound platform was closed for rehabilitation. From February 21 to June 13, 2014, the southbound platform was closed as part of a $3.2 million component repair project, which included work at the Beverley Road and Parkside Avenue stations.
This open-cut station has four tracks and two side platforms, typical for a New York City Subway local station.
The station physically resembles the nearby Beverley Road station as the layout and station house are both the same. There are some differences, however. This station has blue columns while Beverley Road has green, there is a signal house for New York City Transit use on the north end that replicates the station house across the street, and the location of the station house in relation to the platforms, is slightly to the north compared to the same location at Beverley Road. Colors at this station are green and beige.
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