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Court Street (IND Fulton Street Line)

New York Transit Museum
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Side view of the street entrance on the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street
New York Transit Museum is located in New York City
New York Transit Museum
Location in New York City
New York Transit Museum is located in New York
New York Transit Museum
Location in New York City
New York Transit Museum is located in the US
New York Transit Museum
Location in New York City
Established July 4, 1976; 40 years ago (July 4, 1976)
Location Former Court Street station, Boerum Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
Coordinates 40°41′25″N 73°59′24″W / 40.6904°N 73.9900°W / 40.6904; -73.9900Coordinates: 40°41′25″N 73°59′24″W / 40.6904°N 73.9900°W / 40.6904; -73.9900
Type Railway and mass transit museum
Accreditation ASTC
Public transit access Bus: B25, B26, B38, B41, B45, B52, B57, B61, B62, B63, B65, B103
Subway:
Court Street – Borough Hall
"2" train "3" train "4" train "5" train "R" train
Jay Street – MetroTech
"A" train "C" train "F" train "R" train
Website www.nytransitmuseum.org
Court Street
Former New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Station platform with museum exhibits
Station statistics
Address Schermerhorn Street & Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Downtown Brooklyn
Coordinates 40°41′25″N 73°59′24″W / 40.6904°N 73.99°W / 40.6904; -73.99
Line IND Fulton Street Line
Services None (currently occupied by museum)
Structure Underground
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened April 9, 1936; 81 years ago (April 9, 1936)
Closed June 1, 1946; 71 years ago (June 1, 1946) (as a subway station)
Accessible This station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible (station was not wheelchair accessible when it was in service)
Station succession
Next north (Terminal): no regular service
Next south Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets: no regular service


Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 north none: no regular service
Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 south Franklin Avenue (local): no regular service
Utica Avenue (express): no regular service

The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems under the administration of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The main Museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. There is a smaller satellite Museum Annex in Grand Central Terminal in the midtown area of Manhattan.

The museum is located in an actual subway station, which was originally called Court Street. The Court Street station was built as a terminus for local trains of the IND Fulton Street Line and opened on April 9, 1936, along with a long section of the Fulton Street Line and the Rutgers Street Tunnel. The station has one center island platform with two tracks. The tracks end at bumper blocks just beyond the west end of the platform. The station walls feature a tile band set in a course two tiles high (as is the case with most IND local stations), colored aquamarine with a cerulean blue border.

The station exemplified the IND service theory and the design of most of the Manhattan trunk lines, which specified that local trains should operate within individual boroughs where possible, and provide transfers to express trains which would be through-routed between the boroughs. Court Street was to be the northern terminal of the HH Fulton Street Local, which would run south (geographically east) to Euclid Avenue. Additionally, one of the alternative plans for the Second Avenue Subway would have included a southern extension to Brooklyn, tying into the stub at Court Street to accommodate through service to/from Manhattan.


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