The Park Place station is a

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on the

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of the

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. Served by the

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at all times, it is the only solitary station in the subway system to be served solely by a shuttle service without any connections to non-shuttle services. It is also the only single-track station in the subway system that is not a terminal station.

History

The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an

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on its route to

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and

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. The

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(KCER) had begun serving the line in 1896. A station was established at this spot on June 19, 1899 to provide local residents access to KCER trains. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place. During 1905–1906, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised

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and embankment structure, and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point. In April 1993, the

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agreed to give the MTA $9.6 billion for capital improvements. Some of the funds would be used to renovate nearly one hundred New York City Subway stations, including Park Place. The station had deteriorated over the years as the

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considered whether to abandon or rehabilitate the station and the line. Community support in the Bedford–Stuyvesant and

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communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998, was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999.

Station layout

The rebuilt 1999 station consists of a single

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and a single track serving trains traveling in both directions. The new, wider, station platform was built partly over the former southbound track. The large station house is built in a style reminiscent of station houses built in the World War I era on the

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such as

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and a number of stations on the

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Exit

The station has a turnstile bank, token booth, a short staircase on the south side going down to the north side of Park Place, and a long

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-accessible ramp and staircase going to the south side of Prospect Place on the north side of the station house.

References

External links

* * Station Reporter �
Franklin Shuttle
* The Subway Nut �
Park Place Pictures
* MTA's Arts For Transit �

* ttp://subwaynut.com/bmt/parks/parks8.jpg Station house entrance as seen from Park Place
Park Place entrance from Google Maps Street View

Prospect Place entrance from Google Maps Street View

Platform from Google Maps Street View
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