Nostrand Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

Nostrand Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
A view of the upper level
Station statistics
Address	Nostrand Avenue & Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11216
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bedford-Stuyvesant
Coordinates	40°40′49″N 73°56′58″W / 40.680345°N 73.949575°W / 40.680345; -73.949575Coordinates: 40°40′49″N 73°56′58″W / 40.680345°N 73.949575°W / 40.680345; -73.949575
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (all times)       C  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B25, B44, B44 SBS LIRR: City Terminal Zone (at Nostrand Avenue)
Structure	Underground
Levels	2
Platforms	4 side platforms (2 on each level)
Tracks	4 (2 on each level)
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 80 years ago (April 9, 1936)
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	5,762,163  5.9%
Rank	77 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Franklin Avenue (local): A  C  Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets (express): A
Next south	Kingston–Throop Avenues (local): A  C  Utica Avenue (express): A
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only
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Nostrand Avenue is a two-level express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn. It is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights.

The Nostrand Avenue station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the Independent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus at Jay Street – Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, to Rockaway Avenue. The new IND subway replaced the BMT Fulton Street El. The Nostrand Avenue El station, which was formerly above the current subway station, closed on May 31, 1940.

In 1981, the MTA listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.

In the early morning hours of February 17, 2005, transit workers found two trash bags on the tracks of this station. They contained the body parts of 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell, who was reported missing three days earlier, of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The case, considered one of the most gruesome in New York City history, is still under investigation as the murderer(s) have not been identified and no arrests have been made.

Nostrand Avenue is the only two-level express station in the system that has the express tracks on the upper level and the local tracks on the lower one. The station was originally planned to be a conventional local station with four tracks and two side platforms, with a mezzanine, as proven by the fact that the upper level platforms are wider than the lower level ones (which would have been consistent with the design of a mezzanine), and two unused trackways exist on the lower level between the local tracks (which would have been consistent with the typical design of a local station on a four-track line). A curtain wall separates the local tracks from the unused trackways on both sides. On either side of the station, the express tracks ascend from the local tracks to serve the upper level, then descend to rejoin them.