59th Street station (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

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The 59th Street station was constructed as part of the Fourth Avenue Line, the plan for which was initially adopted on June 1, 1905.{{Cite journal|last=Rogoff|first=David|date=May 1961|title=The Fourth Ave. Subway|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzKvSWhrQBW4d3pvOGZaSERiZEhpQ24xT19DTktkQUVlLW5j/view|journal=New York Division Bulletin|publisher=Electric Railroaders' Association|pages=2–10|access-date=May 8, 2017}} The Rapid Transit Commission was succeeded on July 1, 1907, by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC), which approved the plan for the line in late 1907.{{Cite book|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112067596715?urlappend=%3Bseq=24|title=Fourth Avenue Subway, Brooklyn's New Transportation Line: A Part of the Dual System of Rapid Transit of the City of New York|date=June 19, 1915|publisher=Public Service Commission|location=New York City|page=18|hdl=2027/uiug.30112067596715?urlappend=%3Bseq=24|language=en|via=HathiTrust}}{{Cite news|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901678/|title=Fourth Avenue Subway Is Sent To A Committee|date=March 20, 1908|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=May 4, 2017|pages=1–2|language=en}}

As part of negotiations between New York City, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company for the expansion of the city's transit network, the line was leased to a subsidiary of the BRT. The agreement, known as Contract 4 of the Dual Contracts, was signed on March 19, 1913. In 1912, during the Dual System negotiations, the construction of an extension of the Fourth Avenue subway from 43rd Street to 89th Street, just south of the 86th Street station, was recommended. The proposal was approved by the Board of Estimate on February 15, 1912. The PSC directed its chief engineer to create plans on June 14, 1912. The two contracts for the extension, Route 11B, were awarded on September 16, 1912, to the Degnon Construction Company for a combined $3.8 million (equivalent to ${{inflation|fmt=c|index=US|value=3.8|start_year=1912|r=1}} million in {{inflation/year|index=US}}).

Construction on Route 11B1, the section of the extension between 43rd Street and 61st Street, which includes the 59th Street station, began on March 15, 1913. Originally, this section was planned to have two tracks, but after the connection to the Sea Beach Line was added to the plan during the middle of construction, the plan was changed to four tracks. This section was completed in 1915. 59th Street opened on June 22, 1915, as part of an extension of the subway to Coney Island, which included the segment of the Fourth Avenue Line to the north of the station, as well as the entire Sea Beach Line to the south.{{cite book | last=Cudahy | first=Brian J. | title=How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County | publisher=Fordham University Press | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-8232-2211-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJGUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218 | access-date=April 24, 2020 | pages=217–218}}{{cite news|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48814840/|title=Through Tube to Coney, 48 Minutes: First Train on Fourth Avenue Route Beats West End Line Eleven Minutes|date=June 22, 1915|publisher=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=June 29, 2015}} The station's opening was marked with a competition between two trains heading from Chambers Street station in Manhattan to the Coney Island station, one heading via the West End Line and the other via the Sea Beach Line; the latter got to Coney Island first. Since 59th Street was an express station, the platforms were originally {{Convert|480|feet|meters}} long, allowing eight-car express trains to stop there.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoxBAQAAMAAJ&q=4th+Avenue+line&pg=PA18|title=Fourth Avenue Subway, Brooklyn's New Transportation Line: A Part of the Dual System of Rapid Transit of the City of New York|date=June 19, 1915|publisher=Public Service Commission|language=en}}

On June 27, 1922, the New York State Transit Commission commissioned its engineers to examine platform-lengthening plans for 23 stations on the lines of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the successor to the BRT, to accommodate eight-car trains. As part of the project, 59th Street's platforms would have been lengthened from {{Convert|480|feet|meters}} to {{Convert|530|feet|meters}}.{{Cite book|last=Legislature|first=New York (State)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ugaAQAAIAAJ&q=%22union+street%22+LENGTHENING&pg=RA3-PA100|title=Second Annual Report of the Transit Commission (For the Calendar Year 1922)|date=1923|publisher=New York State Transit Commission|pages=100|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5kT80_w6rYC&q=%22union+street%22+%22530+feet%22&pg=PA1277|title=Proceedings of the Transit Commission, State of New York Volume III From January 1 to December 31, 1923|date=1923|publisher=New York State Transit Commission|pages=1277|language=en}} Though the Transit Commission ordered the BMT to lengthen these platforms in September 1923, no further progress was made until February 16, 1925, when the New York City Board of Transportation (NYCBOT) commissioned its engineers to examine platform-lengthening plans for this and eleven other stations along the Fourth Avenue Line. It estimated the project would cost $633,000 ({{inflation|fmt=eq|index=US|value=633000|start_year=1925|r=-3}}).{{Cite news|date=February 17, 1925|title=12 B-M. T. Stations To Be Lengthened|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/02/17/archives/12-bm-t-stations-to-be-lengthehed-transportation-board-orders.html|access-date=May 4, 2017|issn=0362-4331}} The NYCBOT received bids for the project on February 25, 1926.{{Cite news|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48193500/the-brooklyn-citizen/|title=Board Receives Platform Bids For B.M.T. Lines. Six Companies Submit Prices for Extending Subway Stations|date=February 26, 1926|work=The Brooklyn Citizen|access-date=April 7, 2020|pages=5}} The contract was awarded to the Corson Construction Company for $345,021 ({{inflation|fmt=eq|index=US|value=345021|start_year=1926|r=-3}}).{{Cite news|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48193684/the-standard-union/|title=Brooklyn Wins Big Improvement Fund|date=March 18, 1926|work=Brooklyn Standard Union|access-date=April 7, 2020|pages=20}} The extensions opened on August 1, 1927.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49706640/|title=B.M.T. Stations Ready For Eight-Car Trains|date=August 1, 1927|work=Brooklyn Standard Union|access-date=April 9, 2020|page=1|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}}}

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The city government took over the BMT's operations on June 1, 1940.{{Cite news|date=June 2, 1940|title=B.M.T. Lines Pass to City Ownership; $175,000,000 Deal Completed at City Hall Ceremony-- Mayor 'Motorman No. 1'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/06/02/archives/bmt-lines-pass-to-city-ownership-175000000-deal-completed-at-city.html|access-date=May 14, 2022|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719094900/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/06/02/archives/bmt-lines-pass-to-city-ownership-175000000-deal-completed-at-city.html|archive-date=July 19, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite news |date=June 2, 1940 |title=City Takes Over B. M. T. System; Mayor Skippers Midnight Train |page=1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |id={{ProQuest|1243059209}}}} In the 1960s, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) started a project to lengthen station platforms on its lines in Southern Brooklyn to {{Convert|615|feet|meters|abbr=}} to accommodate 10-car trains.{{Cite book|title=New York City Transit Authority Annual Report For The Year June 30, 1960|publisher=New York City Transit Authority|year=1960|pages=16–17}} On July 14, 1967, the NYCTA awarded a contract to conduct test borings at eleven stations on the Fourth Avenue Line, including 59th Street, to the W. M. Walsh Corporation for $6,585 ({{inflation|fmt=eq|index=US|value=6585|start_year=1967}}) in preparation of the construction of platform extensions.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJTVAAAAMAAJ&q=borings+JULY|title=Minutes and Proceedings|date=1967|publisher=New York City Transit Authority|pages=379–380|language=en}} The NYCTA issued an invitation for bids on the project to extend the platforms at stations along the Fourth Avenue Line between 45th Street station and Bay Ridge–95th Street, including this station, on May 3, 1968.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHBIAQAAIAAJ|title=Engineering News-record|date=1968|publisher=McGraw-Hill|pages=75|language=en}} However, work had already started on the platform extension project in February. The platforms were extended by {{Convert|85|feet|meters|abbr=}} to the north.{{Cite journal|last=Rogoff|first=Dave|date=February 1969|title=BMT Broadway Subway Platform Extensions|url=https://erausa.org/pdf/bulletin/1969/1969-01-bulletin.pdf|journal=New York Division Bulletin|publisher=Electric Railroaders' Association|volume=12|issue=1|pages=4|access-date=May 22, 2020|archive-date=September 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915034916/https://erausa.org/pdf/bulletin/1969/1969-01-bulletin.pdf|url-status=dead}}

In 1983, the MTA added funding for a renovation of the 59th Street station to its 1980–1984 capital plan.{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=Ari L. |date=April 28, 1983 |title=M.T.A. Making Major Addition to Capital Plan |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/28/world/mta-making-major-addition-to-capital-plan.html |access-date=May 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425151916/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/28/world/mta-making-major-addition-to-capital-plan.html |url-status=live}} Elevator access for this station had been proposed for the late 2010s. However, the installation of elevators was delayed due to a column replacement project above this section of the Fourth Avenue Line. Both the column replacement and the elevator installation required temporary lane closures on Fourth Avenue, a major artery. An elevator contract was supposed to be awarded in November 2016, but was pushed back to July 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/180220_1000_Transit.pdf|title=Transit and Bus Committee Meeting|date=February 20, 2018|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|page=326|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090440/http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/180220_1000_Transit.pdf|archive-date=February 19, 2018|access-date=February 18, 2018}} A $55.2 million contract for the installation of three elevators at the 59th Street station was awarded in late 2018.{{Cite report|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/archive/190122_1030_transit-bus.pdf|title=Transit and Bus Committee Meeting January 2019|date=January 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326101622/http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/archive/190122_1030_transit-bus.pdf|archive-date=March 26, 2020}} Substantial completion was expected in July 2020,{{Cite web|url=https://new.mta.info/document/15776|title=New York City Transit and Bus Committee Meeting March 2020|date=March 25, 2020|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|page=172|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326102130/https://new.mta.info/document/15776|archive-date=March 26, 2020|access-date=February 2, 2020}} but the project was delayed{{Cite web|last=DeJesus|first=Jaime|date=July 21, 2020|title=MTA expects to finish 59th Street elevators by October|url=https://brooklynreporter.com/2020/07/mta-expects-to-finish-59th-street-elevators-by-october/|access-date=November 6, 2020|website=The Brooklyn Home Reporter|language=en-US}} and the elevators opened on November 6, 2020.{{cite web|last=DeJesus|first=Jaime|date=November 12, 2020|title=Elevators open at 59th Street subway station|url=https://brooklynreporter.com/2020/11/elevators-open-at-59th-street-subway-station/|access-date=May 5, 2021|website=The Brooklyn Home Reporter}}{{cite web|date=November 10, 2020|title=MTA installs more new elevators at various subway stations|url=https://abc7ny.com/7817291/|access-date=May 5, 2021|website=ABC7 New York}} The final component of the project was completed in June 2021.{{cite web|url=https://new.mta.info/document/44216|title=Transit and Bus Committee Meeting|date=July 19, 2021|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=July 16, 2021|page=144}}

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This station is the southernmost four-track express station on the Fourth Avenue Line with two island platforms. The {{NYCS|N}} and {{NYCS|R}} stop here at all times, while some rush-hour {{NYCS|W}} trains stop here in the peak direction.{{NYCS const|timetable|n}}{{NYCS const|timetable|r}}{{NYCS const|timetable|w}} The R and W always run local, while the N runs express during the day and local at night. The next station to the north is {{stl|NYCS|53rd Street|Fourth}} for local trains and {{stl|NYCS|36th Street|Fourth}} for express trains. The next station to the south is {{stl|NYCS|Bay Ridge Avenue}} for R trains and {{stl|NYCS|Eighth Avenue|Sea Beach}} for N and W trains.{{NYCS const|map}}

South of the station are diamond crossovers between each pair of local and express tracks. They are used by the N at night as well as limited W trains during rush hours. The R continues south along Fourth Avenue to Bay Ridge–95th Street while the N and W turn east and branch off to the BMT Sea Beach Line.{{NYCS const|trackref|trackbook3}}

The station walls have mosaic trim lines on top of the white tiles, and spell 59th Street at intervals.{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n7.jpg|title=A faded 59 Street mosaic name tablet sign along the Manhattan-bound local track.|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 9, 2009|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=December 18, 2018}} The northern sections of the station are where the platforms were extended in 1970, and they have no mosaic trims or tiles along the wall, instead including an extension of the tunnel benchwall.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?59753|title=Platform view.|last=Hodurski|first=Michael|date=February 21, 2007|website=www.nycsubway.org|access-date=December 18, 2018}} Two sets of columns run along the entire length of both platforms and are painted yellow.{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n13.jpg|title=A final view on the Manhattan & Queens Platform at 59 St for one of the staircases that has an old format sign for 59 St & 4 Av.|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 9, 2009|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=December 18, 2018|archive-date=March 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308042307/http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n13.jpg|url-status=dead}} The mosaic trim lines are also present in the mezzanines. At the top of the pairs of staircases to each of the platforms, in the trim lines, there are directional mosaics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n11.jpg|title=The turnstiles out to 59 St & 4 Av in its small mezzanine area.|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 9, 2009|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=December 18, 2018}} Those to the Brooklyn-bound platform say "UP TOWN TRAINS",{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n12.jpg|title=A mosaic sign for Up Town Trains, N R trains to 95 St & Coney Island on the mezzanine at 59 St & 4 Av|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 9, 2009|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=December 18, 2018}} while those to the Manhattan-bound platform say "DOWN TOWN TRAINS".{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n10.jpg|title=An old mosaic sign on the mezzanine for 59 St & 4 Av for Down Town Trains, the Manhattan & Queens trains.|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 9, 2009|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=December 18, 2018|archive-date=March 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308035350/http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n10.jpg|url-status=dead}}

The street-level entrances are at the southern end of the station, with one entrance along either side of Fourth Avenue between 60th and 61st Streets. This part-time exit is unstaffed and has High Entry-Exit Turnstiles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1131|title=Showing Image 1131|last=Whitehorne|first=Wayne|date=June 4, 1999|website=www.nycsubway.org|access-date=December 18, 2018}} There are also four exits to Fourth Avenue and 59th Street, which includes two staircases to the northeast corner, along with one staircase and elevator to the northwest corner, at the north end of the station.{{cite NYC neighborhood map|Sunset Park}} Each entrance has its own small mezzanine, and allows for crossovers between platforms.{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/59n2.jpg|title=Two High Exit/Entrance Turnstiles in the decently sized mezzanine area at the now unstaffed exit to 60 Street at 59 Street.|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 9, 2009|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=December 18, 2018}}

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Immediately south of the station, there are tunnel stub headings running straight from the local tracks. They run for about {{convert|150|ft}} and would have been for a line to Staten Island via the Staten Island Tunnel under the Narrows, which was aborted by Mayor Hylan before it was completed.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt9.html|title=Staten Island Rapid Transit by Irvin Leigh & Paul Matus – Page 9|last1=Leigh|first1=Irvin|last2=Matus|first2=Paul|date=December 23, 2001|website=www.thethirdrail.net|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132608/http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt9.html|archive-date=April 2, 2015|access-date=March 26, 2020}}{{cite news|last1=Taft|first1=Lyman W.|title=Finds Many Unused Subway Tunnels Under City Streets|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/54528663/?terms=euclid%2Bfulton%2Bsubway|work= The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=September 16, 2015|page=24|date=October 13, 1954}} There is a "maintenance of way" shed that was built on the southbound trackway.{{Cite AV media|type=video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtHPwSuJwHE#t=535| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211114/FtHPwSuJwHE| archive-date=November 14, 2021 | url-status=live|title=RFW of The Brooklyn Bound R Part 6: Prospect Avenue to Bay Ridge Avenue|date=October 17, 2009|via=YouTube|access-date=April 18, 2020}}{{cbignore}} The northbound trackway is unobstructed, albeit much darker.{{Cite AV media|type=video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SnwVwN0KM#t=358| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211114/g5SnwVwN0KM| archive-date=November 14, 2021 | url-status=live|title=RFW Of The Queens bound R Train Part 1: 95th Street to 45th Street|date=August 31, 2009|via=YouTube|access-date=April 18, 2020}}{{cbignore}} The northbound trackway ends on a brick wall, with evidence of a void space beyond. South of this station, the bridge over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch has four trackways, with the outer tracks occupying the two western ones. The tracks of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line are under the western half of Fourth Avenue at this point so that two additional tracks could be laid in the future if traffic warranted it.{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/02/16/104891453.pdf|title=Brooklyn Subway Extension Plan: Fourth Ave. Line to 86th St., Tunnel to Staten Island, and Eventually a Through Route to Coney Island|date=February 16, 1912|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 28, 2015}}

The original proposal planned a connection from a point between 65th and 67th Streets, just south of the station, running to Arrietta Street near the Tompkinsville station in Tompkinsville, Staten Island.{{Cite Routes Not Taken}} A later plan called for a connection to St. George, Staten Island, near St. George Terminal.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/05/10/archives/staten-island-waits-for-narrows-tunnel-mayor-hylans-plan-to-build-a.html|title=Staten Island Waits for Narrows Tunnel; Mayor Hylan's Plan to Build a Tube That Can Be Adapted to Freight Traffic Raises Anew the Issue of New York Port Development|last=Young|first=James C.|date=May 10, 1925|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 24, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Construction for the latter started in 1923, but the project was canceled in 1925.{{Cite web|url=https://www.silive.com/entertainment/2016/01/old_st_george_a_walking_tour_b.html|title='Old' St. George: Take this tour back into history|last=N|first=Virginia|date=January 31, 2016|website=silive|language=en|access-date=November 23, 2019}}{{cite book|title=Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann|last=Rastorfer|first=Darl|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-300-08047-6|pages=135|chapter=Chapter 7: The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge|access-date=September 18, 2018|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A51VbeqTwogC&pg=PT177}}

The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the largest church in Brooklyn, is located one block east on Fifth Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets.{{cite web |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001464.pdf |title=Historic Structures Report: Sunset Park Historic District |date=August 3, 1988 |publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service |page=61}} The Brooklyn Army Terminal is located two blocks west, along with the NYC Ferry pier there, though there is no free transfer between the subway and the ferry.

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• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204051427/http://www.stationreporter.net/ntrain.htm N Train]
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20150113014240/http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]
• The Subway Nut — [http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/index.php 59th Street Pictures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105022300/http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/59n/index.php |date=January 5, 2018 }}
• [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.641475,-74.017854&spn=0,0.013314&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.641545,-74.017782&panoid=cEWKxuw96zEhzQ38G0zx_g&cbp=12,324.9,,0,2.24 59th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View]
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