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BMT Lexington Avenue Line information


Lexington Avenue Elevated
A 1924 BMT route map; the Lexington Avenue El is at center.
Overview
Other name(s)BMT Lexington Avenue Line
OwnerCity of New York
Termini
  • Fulton Street
  • 65th Street
Service
TypeRapid transit
SystemBrooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
Operator(s)Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
History
Opened1885–1893
Closed1889 (Park Avenue Elevated)
1950 (section west of Gates Avenue)
Technical
Number of tracks2
CharacterElevated
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm)
Route map

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Brooklyn Bridge
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Fulton Ferry[1]
closed 1904
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York–Washington Streets
closed 1904
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Bridge Street
closed 1904
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Fifth Avenue Line
via Hudson Avenue
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Navy Street
closed 1889
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Cumberland Street
closed 1889
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Washington Avenue
closed 1889
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Myrtle Avenue – Grand Avenue
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Myrtle Avenue Line
to Metropolitan Avenue
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DeKalb Avenue
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Greene Avenue
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Franklin Avenue
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Nostrand Avenue
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Tompkins Avenue
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Sumner Avenue
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Reid Avenue
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Broadway (Brooklyn) Line
to Broadway Ferry or Williamsburg Bridge
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Gates Avenue
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Halsey Street
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Chauncey Street
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Eastern Parkway
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Canarsie Line
to Rockaway Pkwy
and
Fulton Street Line
to Lefferts Blvd
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Alabama Avenue
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Van Siclen Avenue
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Cleveland Street
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Norwood Avenue
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Crescent Street
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Cypress Hills
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Jamaica Line (Dual Contracts section)
to 168th Street

The BMT Lexington Avenue Line (also called the Lexington Avenue Elevated) was the first standard elevated railway in Brooklyn, New York, operated in its later days by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, and then the City of New York.

The original line, as it existed at the end of 1885, traveled from Fulton Ferry in Downtown Brooklyn east to East New York, passing over York Street, turning right onto Hudson Avenue (now Navy Street), left onto Park Avenue, right onto Grand Avenue, left onto Lexington Avenue, right onto Broadway, and slight left onto Fulton Street.

The structure above Broadway and Fulton Street is now part of the BMT Jamaica Line. The original structure east of Alabama Avenue in East New York still exists, although it has been rebuilt to support subway cars, which are heavier than the former elevated cars. The remaining elevated structure is the oldest such structure in the subway system.

  1. ^ Rand McNally, 1897 map of Brooklyn

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