Newkirk Avenue (BMT Brighton Line)

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Coordinates: 40°37′48″N 73°57′43″W / 40.630003, -73.962016

This article is about the New York City Subway station at the Newkirk Plaza shopping mall in Flatbush, Brooklyn. For the station at Newkirk and Nostrand Avenues, see Newkirk Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line).


Newkirk Avenue
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	B (weekdays until 9:30 p.m.) Q (all times)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other
Borough	Brooklyn
Opened	original station: July 2, 1878 current station: 1907(?)
Next north	Cortelyou Road (local): Q Church Avenue (express): B
Next south	Avenue H (local): Q Kings Highway (express): B

Newkirk Plaza and station

Newkirk Avenue is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in an open cut at the center of the Newkirk Plaza shopping mall, bounded by Newkirk Avenue on the north, Foster Avenue on the south, Marlborough Road to the west, and East 16th Street to the east, in the community of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

It was opened around 1900 as a two-track surface station named South Midwood, a reference to its location at the southern end of the former Town of Flatbush, which was also historically known as Midwood. Currently, Midwood is considered to be the area south of where the station now stands, so it would now more correctly be described as being in South Flatbush or North Midwood.

When on the surface, the station was a division point at which short-lined elevated trains of the Fulton Street Elevated lines terminated. After grade crossings were eliminated c. 1907 the station became a through stop for all services; at this time it was renamed "Newkirk Avenue."

1 In films
2 Bus connection
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] In films

This station appeared in the Futurama episode The Luck of the Fryrish and was portrayed as being in Fry's old neighborhood. It also appeared in the films Next Stop Greenwich Village[1] and Man Push Cart.