Ralph Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)
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The Ralph Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City.
Weeksville, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York
Ralph Ave. | |||||||||||
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| Location | Fulton Street & Ralph Avenue Weeksville, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40.678874°N 73.921665°W | ||||||||||
| Line | BMT Fulton Street Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Ralph Avenue Line | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | September 20, 1888 | ||||||||||
| Closed | May 31, 1940 | ||||||||||
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Station layout
It had two tracks and two side platforms.[1]
History
It was opened on September 20, 1888, and served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line. It also had a connection to the trolley lines of the same name. Ralph Avenue was the easternmost station on the line until it was expanded to Rockaway Avenue on November 16, 1888. Less than a month later Saratoga Avenue would replace Ralph Avenue as the penultimate station on the line. The next stop to the east was Saratoga Avenue. The next stop to the west was Utica Avenue.
In 1936, the Independent Subway System built their own Fulton Street subway and added an underground subway station with the same name.[2][3] The elevated station became obsolete, and it closed on May 31, 1940.[4]
