Grant Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

Grant Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Grant Avenue & Pitkin Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11208
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	City Line
Coordinates	40°40′36″N 73°51′56″W / 40.676635°N 73.86559°W / 40.676635; -73.86559Coordinates: 40°40′36″N 73°51′56″W / 40.676635°N 73.86559°W / 40.676635; -73.86559
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (all times)
Transit connections	MTA Bus: Q7, Q8
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 29, 1956; 60 years ago (1956-04-29)
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	2,084,651  2.1%
Rank	239 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Euclid Avenue: A
Next south	80th Street: A
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Grant Avenue is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Grant Avenue just north of Pitkin Avenue in City Line, Brooklyn, it is served by the A train at all times. The station is the line's southernmost stop (by railroad direction) in Brooklyn.

Grant Avenue was built as part of the extension of the IND Fulton Street Line east of Broadway–East New York. Funding for the station was allocated in the New York City Board of Transportation's 1939 Capital Budget, projected to be completed by 1942. In October 1940, construction began on the portion of the extension along Pitkin Avenue between Crystal Street and Grant Avenue. This included a station at Euclid Avenue and the Pitkin Yard, but did not include a station at Grant Avenue. By this time, the board acquired private property on the east side of Grant Avenue for subway construction. By 1941, the intersection of Pitkin and Grant Avenues was excavated for subway construction. The opening of the East New York station, and completion of all stations east to Euclid Avenue that were then-under construction, however, was halted in 1942 due to supply shortages from World War II.

The extension of the line to Euclid Avenue opened in November 1948. As part of the extension, the Fulton Line tunnel under Pitkin Avenue was built up to Eldert Lane just past Grant Avenue to facilitate a future subway extension via Pitkin Avenue, while additional trackways were installed in the tunnel just east of Euclid Avenue for a potential connection to the nearby BMT Fulton Street Elevated along Liberty Avenue. The yet-to-be-built Grant Avenue station was also displayed on the signal board in the Euclid Avenue station. In 1949, the Board of Transportation approved a plan to extend the IND Fulton Line along the eastern Fulton El to Lefferts Boulevard. Under the original plans, the Grant Avenue station of the BMT elevated would have been preserved as the first station east of the link. In 1950, the New York City Planning Commission approved funding for an extension of the Fulton Line east from Euclid Avenue to Grant Avenue. In late 1952, the Board of Transportation began construction on a connection between the IND and both the Fulton El and the Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, which included a new underground Grant Avenue station. The station opened on April 29, 1956, along with the connection to the Fulton El east to Lefferts Boulevard. One month later, the station facilitated an extension of the line to the Rockaways. The station also replaced the former Grant Avenue station on the Fulton El, which was closed and demolished.

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