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Church Avenue station (IND Culver Line)

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The Church Avenue station is an express station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Church and McDonald Avenues in Kensington, Brooklyn, it is served by the F and G trains at all times (the latter of which terminates here), and by the train during rush hours in the peak direction. The Church Avenue station was constructed by the Independent Subway System (IND). It opened on October 7, 1933, as the new terminal of the Culver Line, which was known as the Smith Street Line or the South Brooklyn Line at the time. In 1954, this station ceased to be the line's terminal with the completion of the Culver Ramp, which connected the South Brooklyn Line and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT)'s Culver Line and allowing service to run to Coney Island. Though the Church Avenue station contains four tracks and two island platforms, as with most express stations in the New York City Subway, the inner tracks see limited use, being used only by peak-direction trains.

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Church Avenue station (IND Culver Line)
McDonald Avenue, New York Brooklyn

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McDonald Avenue 471
11218 New York, Brooklyn
New York, United States
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Buzz-a-Rama

Buzz-a-Rama was a slot car racing venue which operated in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York from 1965 to 2021. Slot car racing is a hobby in which enthusiasts work on small, remote controlled cars, and race them at high speeds. Buzz Perri opened Buzz-a-Rama in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1965. Born Frank Perri, he got the nickname "Buzz" while a high-jumper in high school. The hobby was popular in the 1960s, and according to Perri, when it opened there were dozens of similar raceways in the city. But it became obscure over time, and Buzz-a-Rama was the last one open, operated by Buzz and his wife, Delores, for more than 55 years.According to Susan Dominus in a 2009 The New York Times article, hundreds of people once filled the venue when there was a race, but "Buzz-a-Rama represents a microcosm of the United States auto industry itself: beloved, historic, and long past the glory days". The space had multiple electrified race tracks as some older arcade games, and it sold parts for the cars. Business slowed over time, and eventually was only open on weekends and some holidays. Perri told the Times that the business did not make money, and if he did not own the building it was in, it would not have been able to operate.Buzz and Delores Perri operated the space at 69 Church Avenue from 1965 until May 2021, when they both died of COVID-19. The Daily Beast featured a story titled "The Totally Preventable Death of a Brooklyn Icon", about Dolores' relationship with Gary Null, an American talk radio host and author who rejects the scientific consensus on a wide range of topics, including vaccines, and advocates pseudoscientific alternative medicine. Like Null, she believed vaccines to be toxic and neither she nor Buzz would get a COVID-19 vaccine.Their son, Frank, took ownership of the space, but said it did not make financial sense to continue to operate, so put its inventory up for auction in January 2022.