The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original
Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an
open-cut right-of-way on its route to
Brighton Beach and
Coney Island. The
Kings County Elevated Railway (KCER) had begun serving the line in 1896. A station was established at this spot on June 19, 1899, to provide local residents access to KCER trains. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place. During 1905–1906, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised
elevated railway and embankment structure, including Park Place. The station had deteriorated over the years as the
New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabilitate the station and the line. Community support in the
Bedford–Stuyvesant and
Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998, was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999. ==Station layout==