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 (1956-04-29)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	2,084,651[1]  2.1%
Rank	239 out of 422
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,^[2][3] it is served by the A train at all times. The station is the line's southernmost stop (by railroad direction) in Brooklyn.^[3]

History

Track layout
Legend
to Euclid Av to 80 St

Grant Avenue was built as part of the extension of the IND Fulton Street Line east of Broadway–East New York.^[4] Funding for the station was allocated in the New York City Board of Transportation's 1939 Capital Budget, projected to be completed by 1942.^[5] 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.^[6][7] By this time, the board acquired private property on the east side of Grant Avenue for subway construction.^[8] By 1941, the intersection of Pitkin and Grant Avenues was excavated for subway construction.^[9] The opening of the East New York station, and completion of all stations east to Euclid Avenue that were then-under construction,^[6][10] however, was halted in 1942 due to supply shortages from World War II.^{[6][11][12][13]}

The extension of the line to Euclid Avenue opened in November 1948.^[12][14][15] 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,^{[12][16][17][18]} 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.^[19] In 1949, the Board of Transportation approved a plan to extend the IND Fulton Line along the eastern Fulton El to Lefferts Boulevard.^[20] Under the original plans, the Grant Avenue station of the BMT elevated would have been preserved as the first station east of the link.^{[12][21][22][23]} In 1950, the New York City Planning Commission approved funding for an extension of the Fulton Line east from Euclid Avenue to Grant Avenue.^[24] 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.^{[25][26][27][28]} 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.^{[2][6][29][30][31]} The station also replaced the former Grant Avenue station on the Fulton El, which was closed and demolished.^[2]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
	Station House	Fare control, station agent
B1 Platform level	Northbound	← toward Inwood – 207th Street (Euclid Avenue) ← (late night shuttle) toward Euclid Avenue (Terminus)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ toward Far Rockaway or Lefferts Boulevard all except nights, or Rockaway Park PM rush hours (80th Street) → → (late night shuttle) toward Lefferts Boulevard (80th Street) →
B2 Lower level tracks	Yard track	→ No passenger service
	Yard track	→ No passenger service

This station has two tracks and one island platform. The column and wall tiles are textured Nile Green, with "GRANT" in dark green letters going down vertically on columns and horizontally along the wall underneath the tile band; the tile band is set in a soldier course of dark Bottle Green bordered by the same Nile Green as the rest of the wall, albeit minus the textured surface.^[2] Unlike older stations, this station featured fluorescent lighting instead of then-standard incandescent lights when it opened.^[2]

The station's only entrance is a 1950s-style brick station-house at street level. Inside, there is a token booth, turnstile bank, fluorescent lights, newsstand, and three staircases to the platform.^[2][32] The entrance is located next to a NYCDOT park and ride facility, signed as "Municipal Parking: Grant Avenue," that encompasses both sides of Grant Avenue.^[33] Additional parking was formerly present on then-NYCT property across North Conduit Avenue, which has since been developed.^[34]

Railroad south (geographically east) of the station, the line gains a center track from Pitkin Yard, leaves the subway tunnel and ramps up to the elevated tracks along Liberty Avenue.^[2][17] At the tunnel portal, another track from Pitkin Yard merges with the southbound local track. The line continues as three tracks, towards 80th Street station on Liberty Avenue. The two yard tracks are located under the station.^[17]

References

External links

• nycsubway.org – IND Fulton: Grant Avenue
• Station Reporter — A Lefferts
• Station Reporter — A Rockaway
• The Subway Nut — Grant Avenue Pictures
• Grant Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View