Prospect Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
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Prospect Avenue
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||||||
Southbound platform
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| Address | Prospect Avenue & Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||
| Locale | Gowanus, Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, South Park Slope | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°40′00″N 73°59′39″W / 40.666789°N 73.994079°WCoordinates: 40°40′00″N 73°59′39″W / 40.666789°N 73.994079°W | ||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | ||||||||||||
| Services |
D  (late nights)N (late nights)R  (all times)W  (limited rush hour service only) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: B63 (on Fifth Avenue)
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | June 22, 1915 | ||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 1,785,990  2.3% |
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| Rank | 273 out of 422 | ||||||||||||
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| Next north |
Ninth Street: D N R W
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| Next south |
25th Street: D N R W
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Prospect Avenue is a local New York City Subway station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn. It is located at Prospect Avenue and Fourth Avenue near the convergence of Gowanus, Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, and South Park Slope. It is served by the R train at all times. The D and N trains also stop here during late nights, and a few rush-hour W trains stop here in the peak direction.
This underground station, opened on June 22, 1915, is a local station with four tracks and two side platforms with a full curtain wall separating the local and express tracks.
The platforms have no columns except on the north ends, where the platforms were extended in the 1960s to accommodate the current standard B Division train length of 600 feet. These I-beam columns are cream colored. The station was renovated in the 1970s, and during this renovation the original trim line along the platforms was replaced with cinder block tiles, which are colored white. The areas where the platform signs are painted blue.
Under the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Plan, the station, along with thirty other New York City Subway stations, will undergo a complete overhaul and would be entirely closed for up to 6 months. Updates would include cellular service, Wi-Fi, charging stations, improved signage, and improved station lighting. From January to May 2016, Grimshaw Architects worked on a design for the station's renovation, with Arup Group acting as a consultant. The award for Package 1 of the renovations, which will cover renovations at the Prospect Avenue, 53rd Street, and Bay Ridge Avenue stations on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, was awarded on November 30, 2016. The station will be closed from June 5, 2017, to December 2017 for these renovations.
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