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Plans for a crosstown subway line were floated as early as 1912. [4] [5] In 1923, a plan for such a line, to be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) from the Queensboro Bridge under Jackson Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, Roebling Street, Bedford Avenue, and Hancock Street to Franklin Avenue at the north end of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line, [6] was adopted by the city. [7]
From June 1968 [14] to 1987, express service on the elevated portion of the line from Church Avenue to Kings Highway operated in the peak direction (to Manhattan AM; to Brooklyn PM), with some F trains running local and some running express. During this time period, this station was used as a local station.
The MTA Police Department is the primary railroad police agency in New York State and Connecticut. The New York City subways are patrolled by the NYPD Transit Bureau under contract since 1994. Since 2019, the MTA Police has officers conducting daily subway patrols in New York City in an effort to assist the NYPD in addressing quality of life ...
On December 1, 2022, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network. [9] [10] As part of the redesign, service would be rerouted onto Avenue H between Flatbush Avenue and Albany Avenue, along with service being streamlined onto Glenwood Road between Ralph Avenue and East 80th Street to remove a difficult turn at Ralph Avenue ...
Almost every surface line in Brooklyn eventually came under control of the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, [1] prior to the takeover of the lines by the New York City Board of Transportation on June 5, 1940.
The B47 is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.Once a streetcar line, [3] it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of the route from St. Johns Place to Woodhull Hospital was part of the B40 line.
In 2019, the MTA announced that the station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program. [5] A contract for five elevators at the station (three for the Canarsie Line platforms and two for the Crosstown Line platforms) was awarded in December 2020. [ 6 ]
On December 1, 2022, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As part of the redesign, the B25 would maintain its existing routing, along with the elimination of closely spaced stops, but would end at Franklin Avenue overnight, with the B26 taking over service on Fulton Street ...