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{{Short description|New York City Subway station in Brooklyn}}
{{For|the station at 15th Street & Prospect Park West|15th Street–Prospect Park station}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox NYCS
| name = Prospect Park
| image = BMT Brighton Prospect Park Southbound Platform.jpg
| image_caption =A northbound [[R46 (New York City Subway car)|R46]] Q train arriving
| accessible = yes
| address = Empire Boulevard &amp; Flatbush Avenue<br />Brooklyn, New York
| borough = [[Brooklyn]]
| locale = [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]], [[Prospect Lefferts Gardens]]
| coordinates = {{coord|40.661507|N|73.962461|W|display=inline,title}}
| division = BMT
| line = [[BMT Brighton Line]]<br />[[BMT Franklin Avenue Line]]
| service = Prospect Park
| connection = {{bus icon}} [[NYCT Bus]]: {{NYC bus link|B16|B41|B43|B48}}
| platforms = 2 [[island platform]]s<br />[[cross-platform interchange]]
| tracks = 4 (3 in regular service)
| structure = [[Open-cut]]
| open_date = {{start date and age|1878|07|02}}
| rebuilt = ''current station:'' {{start date and age|1919}}
| adjacent_stations = {{Adjacent stations|system=New York City Subway
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The '''Prospect Park station''' is an express [[metro station|station]] on the [[BMT Brighton Line]] of the [[New York City Subway]]. It is located in between Lincoln Road, Lefferts Avenue, Empire Boulevard, [[Ocean Avenue (Brooklyn)|Ocean Avenue]] and [[Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn)|Flatbush Avenue]] in [[Flatbush, Brooklyn]], near the border of [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]]. [[Prospect Lefferts Gardens]], which is a subsection of Flatbush, is adjacent to the station. The station, which serves [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)|Prospect Park]] and [[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]], is served by the [[Q (New York City Subway service)|Q]] train and [[Franklin Avenue Shuttle]] at all times and by the [[B (New York City Subway service)|B]] train on weekdays.
== History ==
[[File:BMT Brighton Prospect Park Malbone Street Tunnel.jpg|left|thumb|250x250px|The Malbone Street Tunnel on the southbound local track]]
This station opened on July 2, 1878 when the [[Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway]] established it as the Brighton Line's temporary northern terminus on what was then known as the Willink Entrance to Prospect Park. On August 18, 1878, the line was completed north to '''Bedford Terminal''' with a connection to the [[Long Island Rail Road]].
In 1918, the station began a rebuilding in order to accommodate the new subway connection to the [[Manhattan Bridge]] and [[Montague Street Tunnel]]. This rebuilding contributed to the [[Malbone Street wreck]] on November 1 of that year, when a train of elevated cars derailed on the then-new curve leading to what is now the unused southbound outer track. At least 93 individuals died, making it one of the U.S.'s deadliest train crashes.<ref name="Cudahy">Cudahy, Brian (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=v5eYL7PTP3cC The Malbone Street Wreck]'', New York: Fordham University Press. p. 81.</ref><ref>''Brooklyn Daily Eagle''. October 27, 1919. p. 10.</ref><ref name=":023">{{Cite web|url=http://forgotten-ny.com/1998/10/franklin-avenue-shuttle-the-city-has-closed-this-line-for-reconstruction-but-while-it-was-open-it-was-probably-the-most-decrepit-route-in-the-city-here-are-some-pictures-from-just-before-the-renov/|title=The lore of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle|last=Walsh|first=Kevin|date=October 4, 1998|website=forgotten-ny.com|access-date=July 21, 2016}}</ref>
On August 1, 1920, a tunnel under [[Flatbush Avenue]] opened, connecting the Brighton Line to the [[BMT Broadway Line|Broadway subway]] in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 1, 1920 |title=New Subway Link Opens; Service Started Through Queens and Montague Street Tubes. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1920/08/01/archives/new-subway-link-opens-service-started-through-queens-and-montague.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018165643/https://www.nytimes.com/1920/08/01/archives/new-subway-link-opens-service-started-through-queens-and-montague.html |archive-date=October 18, 2022 |access-date=May 3, 2018 |website=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="BDE-MontagueBegun-1920">{{cite news |date=August 1, 1920 |title=Montague Street Tube, Brighton Subway Operation Begun |url=http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/56149279/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112814/http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/56149279/ |archive-date=May 3, 2018 |access-date=May 3, 2018 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |page=53 |via=[[Brooklyn Public Library]]; [[newspapers.com]]}}</ref> At the same time, the line's former track connections to the [[Fulton Street Elevated]] were severed. Subway trains from Manhattan and elevated trains from [[Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)|Franklin Avenue]] served Brighton Line stations, sharing the line to [[Coney Island]].<ref name="BDE-MontagueBegun-1920" /><ref name="Kennedy 2003">{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=September 30, 2003 |title=Tunnel Vision; Short Line. Small Train. Little Graffiti. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/nyregion/tunnel-vision-short-line-small-train-little-graffiti.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503114234/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/nyregion/tunnel-vision-short-line-small-train-little-graffiti.html |archive-date=May 3, 2018 |access-date=May 3, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> To the south of this station, express service operated on the Brighton Line.<ref name=":023" />
The Prospect Park station was the closest station to [[Ebbets Field]], home of the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] until the team moved to Los Angeles after the [[1957 in baseball|1957 season]]. The [[stadium]] was located at Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place three blocks to the east and one block to the north. That area is now occupied by the Ebbets Field Apartments.
In April 1993, the [[New York State Legislature]] agreed to give the MTA $9.6 billion for capital improvements. Some of the funds would be used to renovate nearly one hundred New York City Subway stations,<ref name="n123677736">{{Cite news |last=Benenson |first=Joel |date=April 1, 1993 |title=Albany deal to save the $1.25 fare |pages=1059 |work=New York Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123677736/albany-deal-to-save-the-125-farejoel/ |access-date=April 28, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428152841/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123677736/albany-deal-to-save-the-125-farejoel/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1993-04-03">{{Cite news |last=Faison |first=Seth |date=April 3, 1993 |title=$9.6 Billion Package for M.T.A. Is Crucial to its Rebuilding Plans |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/03/nyregion/article-269693-no-title.html |access-date=April 28, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428152843/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/03/nyregion/article-269693-no-title.html |url-status=live }}</ref> including Prospect Park.<ref name="n123677942">{{Cite news |date=May 28, 1993 |title=Stop the Fussing |pages=56 |work=Newsday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123677942/stop-the-fussing/ |access-date=April 28, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=May 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503130326/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123677942/stop-the-fussing/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The MTA conducted a $12 million renovation of the Prospect Park station in the mid-1990s. The first phase of the renovation took place from November 1992 to August 1994; it included restoring the station's tiled friezes and yellow-tile walls, as well as restoring the entrance at Empire Boulevard, adding a decorative gate alluding to the [[Prospect Park Zoo]]. The second phase included renovating the Lincoln Road entrance.<ref name=nyt-1994-08-28>{{Cite news|date=August 28, 1994|title=Postings: The Prospect Park Stop; Ironwork and Mosaics Brighten a Renovated City Subway Station|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/28/realestate/postings-prospect-park-stop-ironwork-mosaics-brighten-renovated-city-subway.html|access-date=May 6, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The renovation was completed in 1996.<ref name=nyt-1996-12-29>{{Cite news|last=Hays|first=Constance L.|date=December 29, 1996|title=Notes from the Underground: Station Renovations Continue. Watch Your Step on the Tiles.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/29/nyregion/notes-underground-station-renovations-continue-watch-your-step-tiles.html|access-date=May 6, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1999, the MTA leased the space above the Lincoln Road entrance to a nursery school that planned to renovate the space for $600,000.<ref name=nyt-1999-08-08>{{Cite news|last=Barnes|first=Julian E.|date=August 8, 1999|title=Neighborhood Report: Prospect Lefferts Gardens; Drop the Kids at the Subway Station, and Go to Work|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/08/nyregion/neighborhood-report-prospect-lefferts-gardens-drop-kids-subway-station-go-work.html|access-date=May 6, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
This station was the site of an [[NYPD subway sodomy incident|October 15, 2008, NYPD arrest]] in which it was alleged that the suspect had been [[sodomy|sodomized]], leading to both criminal action and a lawsuit against the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]]. All of the officers involved were acquitted and the lawsuit thrown out.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/michael-mineo-sodomy-trial-verdict-jury-finds-cops-guilty-counts-article-1.196517|title=Michael Mineo sodomy trial verdict: Jury finds all cops not guilty on all counts|last1=Shifrel|first1=Scott|last2=Hays|first2=Elizabeth|last3=Siemaszko|first3=Corky|date=February 22, 2010|work=New York Daily News|access-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023040810/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/michael-mineo-sodomy-trial-verdict-jury-finds-cops-guilty-counts-article-1.196517|archive-date=October 23, 2012|location=New York}}</ref> In November 2019, officials installed a bronze memorial plaque at the Prospect Park station's northern exit in commemoration of the Malbone Street Wreck.<ref name="NY1">{{cite news |url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/11/02/transit-officials-memorialize-worst-subway-crash-in-ny-history |title=Transit Officials Memorialize Worst Subway Crash in NY History |first=Dan |last=Rivoli |publisher=Spectrum News NY1 |date=November 2, 2019 |access-date=November 3, 2019 |postscript=. Includes 2-minute news video with close-up of the memorial plaque.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Officials commemorate deadliest city subway crash with plaque | website=amNewYork | date=November 1, 2019 | last=Barone | first=Vincent | url=https://www.amny.com/transit/officials-commemorate-deadliest-city-subway-crash-with-plaque/ | access-date=November 3, 2019}}</ref>
==Station layout==
{|table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50|'''Ground'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=150|Street level
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=575|Exit/entrance
|-
|colspan=2|'''Mezzanine'''
|Fare control, station agent, waiting area<br>{{NYCS Platform Layout access}}
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=10 valign=top|'''Platform<br />level'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|<span style=color:#{{rcr|NYCS|darkgray}}>'''Northbound Franklin Ave. Line'''</span>
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" |← {{rint|newyork|ssf}} toward {{stl|NYCS|Franklin Avenue|Franklin}} <small>({{stl|NYCS|Botanic Garden}})</small><br />{{0|←}} {{rint|newyork|ssf}} termination track →
|-
|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;" align=center colspan=2|
|-
|style="border-left:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|
{| cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%
|width=0%|
|style="border:solid 1px gray;" align=center|Separation at north end
|width=70%|<small>[[Island platform]] {{access icon}}</small>
|}
|-
|style="border-left:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;" align=center colspan=2|
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|'''Northbound Brighton Line'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|← {{rint|newyork|B}} weekdays toward {{stl|NYCS|Bedford Park Boulevard}} or {{stl|NYCS|145th Street|Concourse}} <small>({{NYCS Platform Layout BMT Brighton Line/previous}})</small><br>← {{rint|newyork|Q}} toward {{stl|NYCS|96th Street|Second}} <small>({{NYCS Platform Layout BMT Brighton Line/previous}})</small>
|-
|'''Southbound Brighton Line'''
|{{0|←}} {{rint|newyork|B}} weekdays toward {{stl|NYCS|Brighton Beach|Brighton}} <small>({{show by date|2025|04|01|({{NYCS Platform Layout BMT Brighton Line/next}}; no service:&nbsp;}}{{stl|NYCS|Church Avenue|Brighton}})</small> →<br>{{0|←}} {{rint|newyork|Q}} toward {{stl|NYCS|Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue}} <small>({{NYCS Platform Layout BMT Brighton Line/next}}) </small> →
|-
|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;" align=center colspan=2|
|-
|style="border-left:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|
{| cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%
|width=0%|
|style="border:solid 1px gray;" align=center|Separation at north end
|width=70%|<small>[[Island platform]] {{access icon}}</small>
|}
|-
|style="border-left:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;" align=center colspan=2|
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|'''''Southbound Franklin Ave. Line'''''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|{{0|←}} No regular service
|}
This open cut station has four tracks and two [[island platform]]s.<ref name="tracks">{{NYCS const|trackref|trackbook3}}</ref> Both platforms have red canopies with green frames and support columns that run for the either length. Every other column has the standard black station name plate in white lettering.
The station is served by the {{NYCS|Q}} train and the [[Franklin Avenue Shuttle]] at all times, and by the {{NYCS|B}} train only on weekdays during the day.<ref name=submap/> The center express tracks are used by B and Q trains. The northbound local track is used to originate and terminate the shuttle, as the station is its southern terminus. The southbound local track is only used for train storage or construction reroutes.<ref name="tracks" /> The next stop to the north is [[Seventh Avenue station (BMT Brighton Line)|Seventh Avenue]] for B and Q trains and [[Franklin Avenue/Botanic Garden station#BMT Franklin Avenue Line platforms|Botanic Garden]] for the shuttle. The next stop to the south is [[Parkside Avenue station|Parkside Avenue]] for local Q trains and [[Church Avenue station (BMT Brighton Line)|Church Avenue]] for express B trains.<ref name=submap>{{NYCS const|map}}</ref>
At the north end of the station, B and Q trains ramp down into a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue, running parallel to the [[IRT Eastern Parkway Line]] before merging with the [[BMT Fourth Avenue Line]] at [[DeKalb Avenue station (BMT lines)|DeKalb Avenue]] while the shuttle curves to the northeast and becomes an open cut route after a short tunnel towards [[Franklin Avenue (BMT Franklin Avenue Line)|Franklin Avenue]].<ref name="tracks" /> The platforms are split into two sections at this end separated by a beige concrete wall.
At the south end of the station, there are crossovers and switches as the Brighton Line becomes a four-track corridor to [[Ocean Parkway (BMT Brighton Line)|Ocean Parkway]]. B trains stay on the express track and run to [[Brighton Beach (BMT Brighton Line)|Brighton Beach]]; Q trains switch to the local track and run to [[Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (BMT Brighton Line)|Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue]].<ref name="tracks" />
===Artwork===
The 1994 artwork here is called ''Brighton Clay Re-Leaf'' by Susan Tunick. It features ceramic tiles in both station entrances/exits that depict leaves to symbolize [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)|Prospect Park]]. This artwork is also at [[Parkside Avenue (BMT Brighton Line)|Parkside Avenue]].<ref>[http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Artwork:_Brighton_Clay_Re-Leaf_(Susan_Tunick) Artwork: Brighton Clay Re-Leaf (Susan Tunick)]</ref>
===Exits===
[[File:Prospect Park BMT Feb 2018 21.jpg|thumb|left|Station entrance at Lincoln Road on the south end]]
The station has two entrances/exits. The full-time one is at the extreme south end. A single double-wide staircase and [[Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990|ADA-accessible]] elevators go up from each platform to a beige ground level station house that is on the north side of the Lincoln Road overpass above the platforms between Ocean and Flatbush Avenues. Each platform [[elevator]] is connected to the station house by a glass-enclosed passageway above their respective platforms.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://web.mta.info/accessibility/stations.htm| title=MTA Guide to Accessible Transit| work=MTA.info| access-date=June 1, 2011}}</ref> There is a bank of [[turnstile]]s, a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions and a token booth inside the station house.<ref name=mtamap>{{cite web|title=MTA Neighborhood Maps: Park Slope/Prospect Park|url=http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhoods/bkn/B3_Park_Slope_2015.pdf|website=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority|mta.info]]|publisher=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]|access-date=August 2, 2015|date=2015}}</ref> Additionally, there is a private preschool immediately adjacent to the station house entrance.
The station's other entrance/exit at the north end is un-staffed. Two staircases from each platform at the tunnel portal go up to a waiting area, where a bank of turnstiles and one exit-only turnstile lead to a [[mezzanine (architecture)|mezzanine]] that had its part-time token booth removed in 2010. Outside [[fare control]], a single staircase goes up to a small plaza with an ornate fence between two buildings on the west side of Flatbush Avenue between Ocean and Lefferts Avenues.<ref name=mtamap/> Diagonally across the intersection from the exit is the southwest entrance of the [[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berenson |first1=Richard J. |url=https://archive.org/details/completeillustra0000bere |title=The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden |last2=DeMause |first2=Neil |publisher=Silver Lining Books |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7607-2213-8 |page=108 |url-access=registration}}</ref> An [[Malbone Street Wreck#Plaque|inscribed bronze plaque]] to the Malbone Street Wreck, installed in 2019,<ref name="NY1"/> is located on the wall outside the northern exit.<ref>{{cite web | title=101 years later, deadliest subway crash in New York remembered | website=Brooklyn Eagle | last=Geberer | first=Raanan | date=November 1, 2019 | url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/11/01/malbone-street-train-wreck/ | access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Zagare | first=Liena | title=Never Forget: 101 Years After The Worst Subway Crash in NYC History, Malbone Wreck Finally Gets Memorialized | website=BKLYNER | date=November 1, 2019 | url=https://bklyner.com/never-forget-101-years-after-the-worst-subway-crash-in-nyc-history-malbone-wreck-finally-gets-memorialized/ | access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref>
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
{{Commons category|Prospect Park (BMT Brighton Line)}}
* {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/BMT_Brighton_Line#Prospect_Park|BMT Brighton Line|Prospect Park}}
* nycsubway.org — [http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork_show?9 Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Artwork by Susan Tunick (1994)]
* Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20150113015342/http://www.stationreporter.net/btrain.htm B Train]
* Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310154017/http://www.stationreporter.net/qtrain.htm Q Train]
* Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030100420/http://www.stationreporter.net/fstrain.htm Franklin Shuttle]
* The Subway Nut — [http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/prospect_parkb/index.php Prospect Park Pictures]
* MTA's Arts For Transit — [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606072039/http://mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=S&station=4&xdev=141 Prospect Park (BMT Brighton Line)]
* [https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.660669,-73.957944&spn=0.014275,0.033023&layer=c&cbll=40.660693,-73.961928&panoid=hCSlaLjktJRo72ZIPHXMcw&cbp=12,314.65,,0,-0.51&t=m&z=16 Lincoln Road entrance from Google Maps Street View]
* [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.662068,-73.961699&spn=0,359.986567&z=17&lci=transit&layer=c&cbll=40.662462,-73.961973&panoid=U2oWg9OIh2fxUoM1_76zgA&cbp=12,252.31,,0,0.9 Flatbush Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View]
* [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.661606,-73.962257,3a,75y,45.64h,86.16t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipPLEramT3AoF3_YCfSaN-rTKwIsa4dkM-2IpA36!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPLEramT3AoF3_YCfSaN-rTKwIsa4dkM-2IpA36%3Dw365-h260-k-no-pi-10-ya11.999988-ro-0-fo100!7i5760!8i2880 Platforms from Google Maps Street View]
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