Cortelyou Road (BMT Brighton Line)

Cortelyou Road
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Cortelyou Road & East 16th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Ditmas Park, Flatbush
Coordinates 40°38′30″N 73°57′51″W / 40.641597°N 73.9643°W / 40.641597; -73.9643Coordinates: 40°38′30″N 73°57′51″W / 40.641597°N 73.9643°W / 40.641597; -73.9643
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Brighton Line
Services       Q  (all times)
Transit connections MTA Bus: B103, BM1, BM2, BM4
Structure Open-cut
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened original station: c. 1900
Rebuilt current station: 1907 (1907)
Former/other names Avenue C
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,961,144[1] Increase 8.5%
Rank 253 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Beverley Road: Q 
Next south Newkirk Plaza: Q 

Cortelyou Road is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway, located at Cortelyou Road between Marlborough Road (East 15th Street) and East 16th Street in the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times.[2]

History

Track layout
Legend
to Beverley Rd
to Newkirk Plz

The station, and the road it is named after, are named for 17th-century tutor and surveyor Jacques Cortelyou, who had a hand in the establishment of New Utrecht.[3]

The original station at this location was opened around 1900 as a two-track street-level side platform station running south from a grade crossing at Avenue C. The station was established to serve the commercial area of Avenue C, a major thoroughfare which boasted the only east-west streetcar line between Church Avenue in Flatbush and Sheepshead Bay. The current station house and below-grade platforms were completed at the end of 1907. At the same time, the station was renamed from Avenue C[4] to Cortelyou Road.

During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Cortelyou Road, along with those at six other stations on the Brighton Line, were lengthened to 615 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 60-foot IND cars, or a nine-car train of 67-foot BMT cars.[5]

Rehabilitation work on the platforms was performed in 1994.

From July to October 28, 2013, the northbound platform was closed for rehabilitation.[6][7] From February 21 to June 13, 2014, the southbound platform was closed as part of a $3.2 million component repair project, which included work at the Beverley Road and Parkside Avenue stations.[8][9]

Station layout

G Street Level Street House, Entrance/Exit
station agent, MetroCard vending machines
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound local ← toward 57th Street–Seventh Avenue (Beverley Road)
Northbound express ← does not stop here
Southbound express → does not stop here →
Southbound local → toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (Newkirk Plaza) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Station house, with Beverley Road in the distance.

This open-cut station has four tracks and two side platforms, typical for a New York City Subway local station.[10]

The station's sole entrance is through a station house at Cortelyou Road between East 15th and East 16th Streets.[11] The station house features artwork called Garden Stops by Patsy Norvell, which has etched images of leaves on the glass windows inside fare control facing the south. The artwork can be seen from both inside the mezzanine and while standing on either platform to the south; this artwork is also visible at the neighboring Beverley Road station.[12]

The station physically resembles the nearby Beverley Road station as the layout and station house are both the same. There are some differences, however. This station has blue columns while Beverley Road has green, there is a signal house for New York City Transit use on the north end that replicates the station house across the street, and the location of the station house in relation to the platforms, is slightly to the north compared to the same location at Beverley Road. Colors at this station are green and beige.

References

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ "Q Subway Timetable, Effective November 7, 2016" (PDF). New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Wilson, Claire (June 5, 2005). "A Commercial Strip Gaining in Charm". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ↑ District, New York (State) Public Service Commission First (1921-01-01). Annual Report for the Year Ended ... The Commission.
  5. ↑ Annual Report 1964–1965. New York City Transit Authority. 1965.
  6. ↑ "MTA | news | Manhattan-bound Brighton Q Line Platforms at Three Stations to Re-open After 4-Month Closure". www.mta.info. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  7. ↑ "Cortelyou Road station rehab will kill our business, merchants say". The Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  8. ↑ "MTA | Press Release | NYC Transit | Brooklyn-bound Cortelyou Rd Q Line Platform Re-opens". www.mta.info. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  9. ↑ "Brighton Line Subway Station Rehabilitation | Brooklyn Community Board 14 | Brooklyn Community Board 14". www.cb14brooklyn.com. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  10. ↑ Marrero, Robert (2015-09-13). "469 Stations, 846 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  11. ↑ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Flatbush" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  12. ↑ http://culturenow.org/entry&permalink=04717&seo=Garden-Stops_Patsy-Norvell-and-MTA-Arts-For-Transit
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