45th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

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45th Street
NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Station statistics
Address 45th Street & Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Sunset Park
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services       N late nights (late nights)
      R all except northbound late nights (all except northbound late nights)
Transit connections Bus transport New York City Bus: B63 (on Fifth Avenue)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened June 22, 1915 (109 years ago) (1915-06-22)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 2,323,521[2]Increase 3.2%
Rank 214 out of 421
Station succession
Next north 36th Street: N late nights R all except northbound late nights
Next south 53rd Street: N late nights R all except northbound late nights

45th Street is a local station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at 45th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights northbound and the N train during late nights only.

Station layout

G Street Level Exit/Entrance
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
P
Platform
level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound local NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (36th Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg toward Ditmars Boulevard late nights (36th Street)
Northbound express NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg (NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg late nights) does not stop here
Southbound express NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg does not stop here →
Southbound local NYCS-bull-trans-R.svg toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street (53rd Street)
NYCS-bull-trans-N.svg toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue late nights (53rd Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the right
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Eastern street stair

This underground station, opened on June 22, 1915,[1] has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center tracks are used by N trains during daytime hours as well as late-night northbound R trains. The platforms are offset as the Manhattan-bound platform is more to the north than the Bay Ridge-bound one.

This station was overhauled in the late 1970s. The Transit Authority repaired the station's structure and appearance, particularly the staircases and platform edges. The overhaul also replaced the original wall tiles, trim line, signs, and incandescent lighting with cinder block tiles (colored gray with dark gray indentation), black and white signs, and fluorescent lights.

On the platforms, street signs and arrows leading to the station's exits are painted white on the wall tiles. Columns run along the entire length of both platforms and are painted dark blue. Every other column has a "45 Street" sign on it in black with white text. All are round except for the ones near the staircases to the station's main entrance, which was where the platforms were extended in the 1960s. These columns are I-beams.

Exits

The station's main entrance is a mezzanine above the platforms and tracks at the south end. It has two staircases to the Manhattan-bound platform and one to the Bay Ridge-bound one at the extreme south end, a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases to the northern corners of 45th Street and 4th Avenue. The mezzanine contains some of the original mosaic directional and arrow signs. The one by the staircases to the southbound platform says "Down Town trains" while the one by the Manhattan-bound platform staircases says "Up Town Trains."

The southbound platform formerly had an exit-only at the center that led to 46th Street. Evidence of this includes a gated door on the platform wall and adjacent "EXIT" signs.

References

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