Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)

== BMT Franklin Avenue Line platform ==

}} The Franklin Avenue station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line has one track and one side platform. It is the northern terminal of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. History This elevated station opened on August 15, 1896, to connect with the adjacent Franklin Avenue station of the Fulton Street Elevated (see ). It was a replacement for the August 18, 1878-built Bedford Terminal station originally built by the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway. It was a two-track through station with side platforms. Just before the Fulton Street Line station, steam railroad trains from the Fulton Street Line turned south onto the BMT Brighton Line to access Brighton Beach. The station also had a connection with the Franklin Avenue Line streetcars, Rehabilitation This station was completely rebuilt between 1998 and 1999 as a single-track station with a single platform on the west side of the track. The new platform is only long and can accommodate a train of two -long cars, or three -long cars. The track ends at a bumper block at the north end of the platform. Exit At the north end of the platform is the station's main station house, a three-story building on the southwest corner of Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue that connects to both platforms of Franklin Avenue on the IND Fulton Street Line. The shuttle platform has another short staircase that goes down to a mesh-enclosed bridge above Fulton Street. On the other end is an elevator and one staircase going down to the northbound IND platform. A second elevator from the shuttle platform goes down to the overpass, main fare control area, and the southbound IND platform. These two elevators make the entire station complex ADA-accessible. == IND Fulton Street Line platforms ==

}} The Franklin Avenue station is an underground local station on the IND Fulton Street Line. History The Franklin Avenue station was constructed as part of the IND Fulton Street Line, the main line of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND)'s main line from Downtown Brooklyn to southern Queens. The groundbreaking for the line was held on April 16, 1929, at Fulton Street and Arlington Place. This station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the Independent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus at Jay Street–Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, to Rockaway Avenue. When Aretha Franklin died on August 16, 2018, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority pasted sticker signs with the word "Respect" on the walls of the Franklin Avenue station, as well as the Franklin Street station in Manhattan. A Brooklyn resident had suggested adding the signs after impromptu tributes to Franklin had arisen at these two stations. An elevator from the platform goes up to the shuttle platform with intermediate stops at the main station house and overpass. The exit to the Manhattan-bound platform is blocked by a trapdoor, while the exit to the eastbound platform is completely sealed. == BMT Fulton Street Line platforms ==

This original elevated station at this intersection opened on April 24, 1888, along the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. It was originally built by the Kings County Elevated Railway, and was not only one of the original stations along the line, but the penultimate station, until it was extended to Albany and Sumner Avenues the next month, Rockaway Avenue by the end of the year, Van Siclen Avenue in 1889, Montauk Avenue in 1892, and Grant Avenue in 1894. In 1896, the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad connected the former BF&CI line to the station. It was a two-track through station with side platforms, gaining a third track along the south side at the point where steam railroad trains from the Fulton Street Line turned onto the BMT Brighton Line to access Brighton Beach. The southern platform was shared with the northbound Brighton Line platform, with the different sections of the platform located at right angles. As with the Franklin Street platforms, the station also had a connection with the Franklin Avenue Line streetcars. The connection to the now Franklin Avenue Shuttle was rebuilt in 1924 as a single-track station. The former westbound (now northbound) track was decked over with a wood platform to accommodate crowds transferring between the Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue Lines. The next stop to the east was Nostrand Avenue. The next stop to the west was Grand Avenue. When the BMT system was taken over by the City of New York on June 1, 1940, the Fulton Street Elevated Line was closed and later demolished as the IND Fulton Avenue Subway station built four years earlier was used as a replacement. == References ==