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| Address | Seventh Avenue, Park Place & Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Borough | Brooklyn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Park Slope,Prospect Heights | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°40′46″N73°58′25″W / 40.679352°N 73.973694°W /40.679352; -73.973694 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Brighton Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | B  (weekday rush hours, middays and early evenings) Q  (all times) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transit |  NYCT Bus:B41,B67,B69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 1, 1920; 105 years ago (1920-08-01)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2,176,497[3]  0.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 154 out of 423[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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TheSeventh Avenue station is astation on theBMT Brighton Line of theNew York City Subway, located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue, Park Place andFlatbush Avenue inPark Slope andProspect Heights, Brooklyn. The station is served by theQ train at all times and by theB train on weekdays only.
Although on the BMT Brighton Line, Seventh Avenue was built almost fifty years after the main segment of the line fromProspect Park toBrighton Beach opened in 1878. Prior to its opening, trains on the line used what is now theFranklin Avenue Shuttle and a connection to the elevatedBMT Fulton Street Line on their way to the line's terminus at Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn orPark Row in Manhattan.[4]
TheDual Contracts were formalized in March 1913, specifying new lines or expansions to be built by theInterborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and theBrooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT; after 1923, theBrooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation or BMT). Two lines under Flatbush Avenue, one operated by the BRT and IRT, were approved.[5]: 203–219 [6][7] The BRT route, an extension of theBrighton Line,[8] was to run under Flatbush Avenue and St. Felix Street in Downtown Brooklyn, with a station at Seventh Avenue.[9][10] The IRT was authorized to extend its Brooklyn line (now theEastern Parkway Line) under Flatbush Avenue, with a four-track route paralleling the BRT's subway southeast of the existingAtlantic Avenue station.[7]
The BRT route was originally planned as a four-track line.[11] Groundbreaking for the lines under Flatbush Avenue took place in May 1914, by which point the BRT line was reduced to two tracks.[12][13] The Seventh Avenue station was built as part of section 1A of the Flatbush Avenue tunnel, which extended from Prospect Place toGrand Army Plaza. The contract for this section was awarded to the Cranford Construction Company on May 1, 1914.[14] The BRT Brighton Line's Seventh Avenue station opened on August 1, 1920,[15][2] providing direct service between the existing Brighton Line andMidtown Manhattan.[16] This moved trains from the elevated Franklin Avenue Line to the new underground line.[2]
During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Seventh Avenue, along with those at six other stations on the Brighton Line, were lengthened to 615 feet (187 m) to accommodate a ten-car train of 60 feet (18 m)-long cars, or a nine-car train of 67 feet (20 m)-long cars.[17]
| Ground | Street level | Exit/entrance |
| Mezzanine | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent |
| Platform level | IRT Northbound local | ←  ( late nights) do not stop here |
| Side platform | ||
| Northbound | ← weekdays towardBedford Park Boulevard or145th Street(Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center) ← toward96th Street(Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center) | |
| Southbound | weekdays towardBrighton Beach(Prospect Park) → towardConey Island–Stillwell Avenue(Prospect Park) → | |
| Side platform | ||
| IRT Southbound local | ( late nights) do not stop here → | |
| IRT Express Tracks[18] | Northbound express | ← do not stop here |
| Southbound express | do not stop here → | |
The Seventh Avenue station has two tracks and twoside platforms.[19] The platforms are superimposed above the IRT Eastern Parkway Line's express tracks, which run on a lower level.[18][14] There is amezzanine above the station, which leads to exits on either side of Flatbush Avenue.[14] The mezzanine crosses over the Eastern Parkway Line's local tracks, which flank the BMT tracks on either side.[18][14] Each platform has two closed staircases that lead to a closed portion of themezzanine above the platforms.
North of Seventh Avenue, the Brighton Line tracks descend slightly beneath the Eastern Parkway local tracks at theBergen Street station, while the Eastern Parkway express tracks rise to a higher level.[14] South of the Seventh Avenue station, the Eastern Parkway local tracks rise above the Brighton Line tracks to serve theGrand Army Plaza station.[14]
Both platform walls have a golden mosaic trim line with blue and brown borders and white on blue "7" friezes appearing within them at regular intervals. Mosaic name tablets reading "7TH AVENUE" in white seriffed lettering on a blue background and gold and brown border appear below the trim lines. Gamboge I-beam columns run along both platforms, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.
This is one of two stations on the B train named "Seventh Avenue"; the other isSeventh Avenue–53rd Street on theIND Sixth Avenue Line inManhattan.
This station has two entrances and exits. One stair goes up to the south sidewalk of Park Place east of Flatbush Avenue, while the other stair goes to the south sidewalk of Flatbush Avenue southeast of Park Place.[20]
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