IND Fulton Street Line
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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 off of it.
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[edit] 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 Street 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.
[edit] 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 Street station, which it shares the Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line. At this point it becomes a four-track system until Euclid Avenue.
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 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. Here it becomes a three-track line.
Past the Grant Avenue Station, the line becomes elevated, swinging somewhat north until it is over Liberty Avenue. Just past the Rockaway Boulevard Station, the Rockaway Line branches southward. The Fulton Street lines continues over Liberty Avenue to its terminus at Lefferts Boulevard.
[edit] Stations
- Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets
- Transfer to IND Crosstown line
- Lafayette Avenue
- Clinton–Washington Avenues
- Franklin Avenue
- Nostrand Avenue (express and local trains)
- Kingston–Throop Avenues
- Utica Avenue (express and local trains)
- Ralph Avenue
- Rockaway Avenue
- Broadway Junction (express and local trains)
- Transfer to identically named stations on the Jamaica Line or the Canarsie Line.
- Liberty Avenue
- Van Siclen Avenue
- Shepherd Avenue
- Euclid Avenue (express and local trains)
- Grant Avenue
- 80th Street–Hudson Street
- 88th Street–Boyd Avenue
- Rockaway Boulevard
- 104th Street–Oxford Street
- 111th Street–Greenwood Avenue
- Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
[edit] Service
The line is served by the A and C trains.
