IND Fulton Street Line

IND Fulton Street Line

Legend IND Sixth Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line Jay Street – Borough Hall BMT Fourth Avenue Line Court Street New York Transit Museum IND Crosstown Line Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets IND Culver Line Lafayette Avenue Clinton–Washington Avenues Franklin Avenue Nostrand Avenue Kingston–Throop Avenues Utica Avenue Ralph Avenue Rockaway Avenue Broadway Junction Liberty Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Shepherd Avenue Euclid Avenue Pitkin Yard Grant Avenue former Fulton Street elevated 80th Street 88th Street Rockaway Boulevard IND Rockaway Line 104th Street 111th Street Ozone Park – Lefferts Boulevard

The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through all of central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens. The IND Rockaway Line branches from it. It forms part of the A train.

General characteristics

While much of the line is four tracks, its only service into Manhattan is via the two-track Cranberry Street Tunnel. Manhattan-bound trains merge into the express tracks at the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station.

Under Fulton Street, the line is mainly single level. The Nostrand Avenue station is the exception with the express tracks on the upper level and local tracks on the lower level. This is partly because it was built while the old, now-demolished elevated line on the surface had to be supported.

The stations along Liberty Avenue in Queens, from 80th Street–Hudson Street through Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard, as well as the current 3-track elevated structure, were built for the BMT Fulton Street Line in 1915 as part of BMT's portion of the Dual Contracts. The connection to the BMT was severed on April 26, 1956, and the IND was extended east (track direction south) from Euclid Avenue via a connecting tunnel and new intermediate station at Grant Avenue, with the new service beginning on April 29, 1956.

Route

Entering Brooklyn via the Cranberry Street Tunnel as a two-track line, it travels east on Cranberry Street, south on Jay Street, briefly running parallel with the IND Culver Line. It turns away from the Culver Line onto Schermerhorn Street to the six-track Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station, which it shares with the Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown Line. The local tracks are unused at Hoyt-Schermerhorn, but are connected to the abandoned Court Street station. At this point it becomes a four-track system until Euclid Avenue.

Powerhouse at Liberty wye

The line continues east under Schermerhorn Street to the intersection of Schermerhorn, 3rd Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, and thence across it, onto Lafayette Avenue and then finally onto Fulton Street.

It leaves Fulton Street via Truxton Street, crosses Broadway, curves through a corner of the BMT East New York Yard, and crosses Jamaica Avenue onto Granville Payne Avenue. It turns east onto Pitkin Avenue to Euclid Avenue, where it interchanges with the Pitkin Avenue Yards.

A two-track ramp leads from the Euclid Ave station to the Grant Ave station. Past Grant Ave, the line becomes elevated, swinging somewhat north until it is over Liberty Avenue. Here it becomes a three-track line, with the center track coming from Pitkin Yard. Just past the Rockaway Boulevard Station, the Rockaway Line branches southward. The Fulton Street Line continues over Liberty Avenue to its terminus at Lefferts Boulevard.

Station listing

Station service legend
	Stops all times
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Time period details

	Station	Tracks	Services	Opened	Transfers and notes
Begins as continuation of IND Eighth Avenue Line express tracks (A  C ); with connecting tracks to IND Sixth Avenue Line local tracks (No Regular Service)
	Jay Street–Borough Hall	express	A  C	February 1, 1933	IND Culver Line (F )
Local tracks begin
	Court Street	local		April 9, 1936	Closed 1946, reopened 1976 as the New York Transit Museum
Local tracks continue east from Court Street; Express tracks continue south then east from Jay Street–Borough Hall
	Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets	all	A  C	April 9, 1936	IND Crosstown Line (G ) Local tracks & platforms between local and express tracks unused
	Lafayette Avenue	local	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Clinton–Washington Avenues	local	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Franklin Avenue	local	A  C	April 9, 1936	Franklin Avenue Shuttle (S )
	Nostrand Avenue	all	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Kingston–Throop Avenues	local	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Utica Avenue	all	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Ralph Avenue	local	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Rockaway Avenue	local	A  C	April 9, 1936
	Broadway Junction	all	A  C	December 30, 1946	BMT Canarsie Line (L ) BMT Jamaica Line (J  Z )
	Liberty Avenue	local	A  C	November 28, 1948
	Van Siclen Avenue	local	A  C	November 28, 1948
	Shepherd Avenue	local	A  C	November 28, 1948
	Euclid Avenue	all	A  C	November 28, 1948
Express tracks end
	Grant Avenue		A	April 29, 1956
Single Express track begins
	80th Street	local	A	September 25, 1915[1]
	88th Street	local	A	September 25, 1915[1]
	Rockaway Boulevard	local	A	September 25, 1915[1]
IND Rockaway Line splits (A )
	104th Street	local	A	September 25, 1915[1]
	111th Street	local	A	September 25, 1915[1]
	Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard		A	September 25, 1915[1]

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