1. History

2. Station layout
    Exits 

3. Notes

4. References

5. External links

Seventh Avenue, occasionally referred to as Seventh Avenue–Park Slope, is an express station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located at Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is served by the F and G trains at all times.

History

One of the goals of Mayor John Hylan's Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in the 1920s was a line to Coney Island, reached by a recapture of the BMT Culver Line.^[2][3] As originally designed, service to and from Manhattan would have been exclusively provided by Culver express trains, while all local service would have fed into the IND Crosstown Line.^[4] The line was extended from Bergen Street to Church Avenue on October 7, 1933, including the 15th Street–Prospect Park station .^[5][6]

The station received a $400,000 renovation starting in 2015.^[7] In January 2016, it was proposed to relocate the station booth to the 7th Avenue entrance (where 65% of entrances and exits occur). Most of the mezzanine would also be closed off, and the turnstiles would be replaced.^[8] Waist-high turnstiles at the 7th and 8th Avenue ends were installed in August 2016, replacing the HEETS.^[8] Much of the mezzanine closed permanently on January 23, 2018, at which time the station booth was relocated.^[10] A 2015 proposal to add elevators at the station was rejected because it would have cost $15 million.^[9]

Station layout

This station has two island platforms and four tracks, but only the outer two are normally in revenue service, although a proposal to re-activate the express tracks is being considered.^[11][12][13] South of this station, the express tracks separate from the local tracks and rejoin beneath them north of Fort Hamilton Parkway, then rise up again. The tile band is mustard yellow with a sienna brown border, set in a three-high "express station" course. The top border is slightly wider than the bottom and bisects the center of the band at regular intervals. This appears to be a modern aberration done during a renovation sometime in the 1980s as historical images show standard IND style color bands before 1972.^[14] There is evidence of water damage on both trackside walls.

While this station is underground and Fourth Avenue is on an elevated trestle, this station is actually at a higher elevation than Fourth Avenue. This is because Brooklyn's topography slopes downwards towards the west (hence the neighborhood name of Park Slope), allowing the line to enter into the hillside between the two stations.

The station contains a full-length mezzanine with exits at 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue. Before January 2018, there was around {{convert|500|ft|m}} of open mezzanine stretching across the station outside of fare control. while much of the space within fare control was fenced in. The full-time fare control area and station booth was located in the middle of the mezzanine, between 7th Avenue at 8th Avenue. Waist-high turnstiles led to single staircases to either platform.^[15] Unstaffed entrances were located at the either end of the station, allowing customers to exit the station without having to walk to the middle area. Full-height High Entry-Exit Turnstiles (HEETs) were formerly present at these locations. There was a passageway within fare control from the platform stairs at 7th Avenue to a HEET turnstile leading to the station booth.^[15] There are four staircases to each platform, two at the 7th Avenue end and two at the 8th Avenue end.^[15] One staircase from each platform formerly led to the mezzanine,^[8] but has been closed off.^[16] Crossovers between service directions are available at all staircases.^[15]

Exits

There are eight street stairs – four going up to all four corners of 9th Street and 7th Avenue, and four going up to all four corners of 9th Street and 8th Avenue.^[15] The 8th Avenue entrance also has an intermediate level at the first staircase, otherwise a descending hill.^[15]

Inside the fare control near the Eighth Avenue entrance is a large scale painting of Prospect Park's The Raven.^[17]

Notes

References

External links

• {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?207:393|IND Crosstown|7th Avenue/Park Slope}}
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204051254/http://www.stationreporter.net/ftrain.htm F Train]
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204051246/http://www.stationreporter.net/gtrain.htm G Train]
• The Subway Nut — 7th Avenue Pictures
• [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.666943,-73.981698&spn=0,0.013733&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.666989,-73.981787&panoid=xrthZsn5JDDP70zPU3er3Q&cbp=12,41.1,,0,4.09 Seventh Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View]
• [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.665755,-73.979208&spn=0,0.013733&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.665834,-73.979153&panoid=ZeusPBRxYcXVvaQ6VtC2bA&cbp=12,84.44,,0,4.16 Eighth Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View]
• [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6662216,-73.9799728,3a,75y,34.14h,87.28t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-TPu90yQeEoE%2FWGNF_wEaCCI%2FAAAAAAAAWXk%2FL808MgydzNsghZagvjrJ8L0eGtTgDEbNACLIB!2e4!6s%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2F-TPu90yQeEoE%2FWGNF_wEaCCI%2FAAAAAAAAWXk%2FL808MgydzNsghZagvjrJ8L0eGtTgDEbNACLIB%2Fw203-h100-p-k-no%2F!7i8000!8i4000!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1 Platforms from Google Maps Street View]

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