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Vanderbilt Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)

1888 establishments in New York (state)1940 disestablishments in New York (state)Brooklyn railway station stubsDefunct BMT Fulton Street Line stationsRailway stations closed in 1940
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888

Vanderbilt Avenue was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888. The station had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms. It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line. This station was served by steam locomotives between 1888 and 1899. In 1898, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899. It also had a connection to the streetcar line of the same name. In 1936, the Independent Subway System built the Fulton Street subway and added a station one block to the southeast named Clinton–Washington Avenues. The el station became obsolete, and it closed on June 1, 1940, when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.

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Vanderbilt Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)
Vanderbilt Avenue, New York Brooklyn

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11238 New York, Brooklyn
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