BMT Sea Beach Line#History

{{Infobox rail line

| name = BMT Sea Beach Line

| image = {{rint|nycs|N|size=50}}

| image_width = 75

| caption = The N serves the entire Sea Beach Line at all times.
Limited rush-hour service is also provided by the W.

| type = Rapid transit

| system = New York City Subway

| start = Eighth Avenue

| end = Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue

| stations = 10

| open = 1915–1918

|locale = Brooklyn, New York City

|owner = City of New York

|operator = New York City Transit Authority

| daily_ridership = 45,909 (2023){{NYCS const|riderref|weekday}}

| character = Open-Cut /At-Grade

( Coney Island Yard stretch ) /Elevated (at Stillwell Avenue)

| linelength =

| tracks = 2–4

| gauge = {{RailGauge|ussg}}

| electrification = 600V DC third rail

| map = {{BMT Sea Beach Line|inline=1}}

| map_state = collapsed

}}

The BMT Sea Beach Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway, connecting the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at 59th Street via a four-track wide open cut to Coney Island in Brooklyn. It has at times hosted the fastest express service between Manhattan and Coney Island, since there are no express stations along the entire stretch, but now carries only local trains on the N service, which serves the entire line at all times. During rush hours, several W trains serve the line north of 86th Street.

Extent and service

The following services use part or all of the BMT Sea Beach Line:{{NYCS const|serviceguide}}

class="wikitable"

!Time period

!Section of line

|all times

|full line

|five rush-hour trains{{cite web |date=July 19, 2021 |title=86 St – OpenMobilityData |url=https://transitfeeds.com/p/mta/79/latest/stop/N10N/20210726 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719222837/https://transitfeeds.com/p/mta/79/latest/stop/N10N/20210726 |archive-date=July 19, 2021 |access-date=July 19, 2021 |website=transitfeeds.com}}{{cite web|url=https://transitfeeds.com/p/mta/79/latest/stop/N10S/20210726|title=86 St – OpenMobilityData|date=July 19, 2021|website=transitfeeds.com|access-date=July 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719222837/https://transitfeeds.com/p/mta/79/latest/stop/N10S/20210726|archive-date=July 19, 2021}}

|north of 86th Street

File:N approaching 6 Av in BR trench jeh.JPG on the left and the BMT Sea Beach Line on the right.]]

File:16th Av powerhouse Sea Beach jeh.JPG

=Route description=

The modern line begins as a split from the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at a flying junction immediately south of 59th Street. Between the station and the split, crossover switches are provided between the local and express tracks of the Fourth Avenue Line, and then the express tracks curve east under the northbound local track to become the beginning of the Sea Beach Line. After emerging from the tunnel under Fourth Avenue, the two separate Sea Beach tracks rise on either side of a ramp which formerly connected to the original line to the Brooklyn shore at 65th Street in Bay Ridge.{{NYCS const|trackref|trackbook3}}

After passing the former junction with the line to the shore, the Sea Beach widens to the width of four tracks. All stations have two side platforms with no platform access to the express tracks anywhere on the Sea Beach right-of-way.

Before and after Kings Highway, there are crossover switches to the southbound express track from the northbound express track. On both sides of Kings Highway, crossovers exist to allow express trains to switch to the local tracks before the station or local trains to switch to express after the station. The express tracks end south of 86th Street as the line becomes double-tracked, and cut diagonally adjacent to the Coney Island Yards. After several yard connections, the line ends at the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue terminal.

=Express tracks=

The express tracks were originally intended to host the Coney Island Express. Service was carried on these tracks twice in the line's history — for summer weekend service to Chambers Street from 1924 to 1952 and again from 1967–1968 to provide a fast rush-hour Broadway Line express service for Coney Island riders (NX). Though these expresses are thought of as being Sea Beach Expresses, they did not serve a single station on the Sea Beach Line.

The express tracks on the Sea Beach had other uses over the years. Most new equipment, especially experimental cars, was broken in on these tracks. The tracks were used for motorman training and set up with a short stretch of 1950s-era automation to test the ill-fated system later used on one track of the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle.

Historically, the two express tracks were an absolute block, that is, there was no signal control between one end of the tracks near Sixth Avenue and Kings Highway. A train was not supposed to enter the block until any train in front of it had departed the block.

The express tracks' section on this block was allowed to deteriorate severely as did much of the system from the 1970s on. In 1998, it was decided to rehabilitate the express tracks in this area, with full signaling. Only the northbound (E4) track was rehabilitated, however, for two-way traffic from its northern end to Kings Highway if needed. The southbound (E3) track remains unused, being disconnected from the other three tracks and inaccessible from 59th Street to Kings Highway.

History

=Early history=

File:Bmt triplex no 4.png

The New York and Sea Beach Railroad was organized on September 25, 1876, as a steam-powered excursion railroad. It opened from a junction with the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad (West End Line) and concurrently-opened New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad (Manhattan Beach Line) to Coney Island on July 18, 1877.{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, NY |title=Another Line Open|date = July 17, 1877|page=4}}{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, NY |title=The Sea Beach Railroad|date = July 19, 1877|page=2}} After a delay of two years, it was opened to the Bay Ridge Ferry (to South Ferry, Manhattan) on July 17, 1879, at which time the Sea Beach Palace opened at the Coney Island end.{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, NY |title=Sea Beach|date = July 15, 1879|page=2}}{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, NY |title=The First Train|date = July 17, 1879|page=4}}{{Cite journal|date=August 2015|title=Two Anniversaries–Sea Beach and Steinway Tunnel|url=https://issuu.com/erausa/docs/2015-08-bulletin|journal=New York Division Bulletin|publisher=New York Division, Electric Railroaders' Association|volume=58|issue=8|access-date=August 31, 2016|via=Issu}}

File:Station AvenueU.jpg station, pre-renovation]]

Except at its two ends, the railroad used the same route as the current Sea Beach Line. At the Bay Ridge end, the railroad ran just north of the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch, ending at the Bay Ridge Channel around 64th Street. The current line joins this alignment near Fifth Avenue. The old railroad crossed the Bay Ridge Branch with a pronounced S-curve just east of Seventh Avenue; the crossing is now much straighter with the Bay Ridge Branch in a deeper cut. On the Coney Island end, the original path curved left soon after the curve to the right at the northern edge of the Coney Island Yards, ending at the combined Sea Beach Palace hotel and depot, on the north side of the BMT Brighton Line at around West 10th Street.

On May 22, 1883, the company was reorganized as the New York and Sea Beach Railway Company and was allowed to operate from New York Harbor to the Sea Beach Palace in Coney Island. The company went bankrupt, and a receiver was appointed on January 15, 1896, before the company was sold at foreclosure by the Sea Beach Railway, which was incorporated on August 29, 1896. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) bought the company's stock on November 5, 1897, along with the short elevated Sea View Railway on Coney Island, and assigned it by lease to the Brooklyn Heights Railroad. It was soon fitted with trolley wire for electric operation. A March 1, 1907, agreement allowed the company to operate through service from 38th Street and New Utrecht Avenue to Coney Island. Starting around 1908, electric trains began operating as a branch of the BMT West End Line from Bath Junction to Coney Island, with trains coming from Park Row in Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge and BMT Fifth Avenue Line. Streetcars ran over the rest of the line to Bay Ridge, from New Utrecht Avenue and 62nd Street to 65th Street and Third Avenue. In 1907, connecting tracks were built connecting to the West End Line just north of Coney Island Creek in order to bring Sea Beach trains into West End Depot. The original alignment was retained for freight service only.

The portion of the line between 62nd Street and New Utrecht Avenue and Third Avenue and 65th Street was replaced by bus service between December 1, 1913, and June 23, 1914, when trolley service resumed service before being eliminated on June 22, 1915.

File:Sea Beach Line.png

As part of the Dual Contracts, and while the Fourth Avenue Subway Line was being constructed the BRT dug a four-track open cut and built high-level platforms for subway operation on the Sea Beach Line. Trolley cars started using the new open cut between Avenue T and 86th Street on January 9, 1914. Service was gradually extended until the new Sea Beach Line opened for full subway service. Two subway cars with poles were run between Third Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue and started operating on March 16, 1915. Additional cars were equipped with poles and operated service on the line from May 1, 1915, until the line opened for full subway service on June 22, 1915, with trains running between Coney Island and Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan. Service started with two- and three-car trains operating via the Fourth Avenue local track and the Manhattan Bridge south tracks. The express tracks were finished several weeks later. When the BMT Fourth Avenue Line was extended south from the Sea Beach Line on January 15, 1916, the Sea Beach trains were shifted to the express tracks on Fourth Avenue, with Fourth Avenue trains providing local service.

The tracks over the north side of the Manhattan Bridge opened on September 4, 1917, along with part of the BMT Broadway Line. All Sea Beach service was moved to the new line, ending at 14th Street–Union Square.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/09/05/archives/open-first-section-of-broadway-line-train-carrying-1000-passengers.html|title=OPEN FIRST SECTION OF BROADWAY LINE; Train Carrying 1,000 Passengers Runs from Fourteenth Street to Coney Island.REGULAR SERVICE BEGINSNew Road Is Expected to Relieve Old System of 15,000 PersonsDaily in Rush Hours. Service Commissioners Jubliant. Schedule Not Fully Arranged.|date=September 5, 1917|access-date=November 5, 2016|issn=0362-4331|newspaper=The New York Times}} This was extended to Times Square–42nd Street on January 5, 1918.

In 1924, the BMT assigned numbers to its services. The Sea Beach Line service became the 4. This has since become the {{NYCS service|N}} train. In general, Sea Beach service has always run express in Manhattan and on Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, ending at 42nd Street and later 57th Street. The {{NYCS service|NX}} began on November 27, 1967, as a "super-express" from Brighton Beach on the BMT Brighton Line through Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, and along the Sea Beach Line express tracks to 57th Street with only seven stops between Stillwell Avenue and 57th Street, three in Brooklyn and four in Manhattan. This service was discontinued on April 15, 1968, due to low ridership, and no regular trains have used the Sea Beach express tracks since.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thejoekorner.com/lines/suball-frame.htm|title=SUBWAY LINE NAMES|last=Korman|first=Joseph D.|website=www.thejoekorner.com|access-date=October 23, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.erictb.info/linehistory.html|title=NYCT Line by Line History|last=Bolden|first=Eric|access-date=October 30, 2016|work=erictb.info}}[http://www.thejoekorner.com/scripted-ticket-display.shtm?http://www.thejoekorner.com/subway-sun/P008486.gif service notice], effective April 15, 1968

=Later years=

In the 1970s, there was a proposal to renovate the Sea Beach open cut, which was deteriorating to the point that a retaining wall along the line was in danger of collapsing onto the tracks.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/28/archives/subway-repairs-voted-by-city-east-river-duct-work.html|title=Subway Repairs Voted By City|last=Fowler|first=Glenn|date=April 28, 1974|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 8, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Funding was allocated for the line's infrastructure improvements in 1975.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/19/archives/subway-improvements-set-by-mta.html|title=Subway Improvements Set by M.T.A.|last=Burks|first=Edward C.|date=October 19, 1975|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 8, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} More than $20 million was earmarked for New York City Subway projects in 1977, including for upgrades to the Sea Beach line.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/04/archives/mta-receives-280-million-in-federal-grants.html|title=M.T.A. Receives $280 Million in Federal Grants|last=Burks|first=Edward C. Burks|date=October 4, 1977|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 8, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

In 1986, the New York City Transit Authority launched a study to determine whether to close 79 stations on 11 routes, including the entire Sea Beach Line, due to low ridership and high repair costs.{{cite web |last=Brooke |first=James |date=April 29, 1986 |title=Subway Aides to Weigh Cuts on 11 Routes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/29/nyregion/subway-aides-to-weigh-cuts-on-11-routes.html |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}{{Cite news |last=Gordy |first=Margaret |date=1986-04-29 |title=MTA Studies Citywide Cuts in Subway Lines, Stations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-mta-studies-citywide-cuts-in-sub/139526241/ |access-date=2024-01-25 |work=Newsday |pages=3, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-mta-studies-citywide-cuts-in-sub/139526291/ 27]}} Numerous figures, including New York City Council member Carol Greitzer, criticized the plans.{{cite web |last=Finder |first=Alan |last2=Connelly |first2=Mary |date=May 4, 1986 |title=The Region; On Shrinking The Subways |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/04/weekinreview/the-region-on-shrinking-the-subways.html |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}

{{wikinews|New York City Subway N service to be restored to Coney Island May 29, via the Sea Beach Line}}

File:NYC Subway, Sea Beach Line.jpg]]

When Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue was closed for reconstruction from 1993 to 1995 and November 4, 2001, to May 29, 2005, 86th Street was the southern terminal for the N train.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/n_to_coneyisland.htm |title=Noteworthy – N restored to Coney Island |date=May 7, 2005 |access-date=September 18, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507105016/http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/n_to_coneyisland.htm |archive-date=May 7, 2005 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/n_to_coneyisland.htm|title=Noteworthy – N restored to Coney Island|date=May 7, 2005|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=September 18, 2016|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507105016/http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/n_to_coneyisland.htm|archive-date=May 7, 2005}}

File:Bay Parkway Platform.jpg

Bay Parkway pre-renovation

File:Bay Parkway Subway Station (cropped).jpg

Bay Parkway post-renovation

In October 2013, it was announced that the line would undergo extensive renovation. All stations would be waterproofed, with their houses and passageways remodeled and stairways rebuilt; they would also get Help Points, and turnstiles would be added to each station. In addition, graffiti, which is prevalent on the line, would be mitigated; this required going onto private property to remove graffiti and fix the roofs of the stations. Eighth Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue/62nd Street would get wheelchair-accessible elevators. The $395,700,000 project was scheduled to begin in the winter of 2015,{{cite web|url=http://www.homereporternews.com/news/general/two-elevators-coming-to-the-n-line-during-massive-rehabilitation/article_f6bc6a20-2d28-11e3-a283-001a4bcf887a.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313022820/http://www.homereporternews.com/news/general/two-elevators-coming-to-the-n-line-during-massive-rehabilitation/article_f6bc6a20-2d28-11e3-a283-001a4bcf887a.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |title=Two elevators coming to the N line during massive rehabilitation |date=October 4, 2013 |access-date=May 24, 2014 }} but work began in late June 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2012/07/hazards-of-the-sea-beach-n-line-stations/|title=Hazards Of The Sea Beach N Line Stations|author=lvladimirova|work=Bensonhurst Bean|access-date=May 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529223056/http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2012/07/hazards-of-the-sea-beach-n-line-stations/|archive-date=May 29, 2014|url-status=usurped}}

Funding for the renovation was provided for in the 2010–2014 Capital Program.{{Cite web| title=MTA Capital Program 2010-2014 | url=http://web.mta.info/capital/pdf/CapitalConstruction_1014.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114135146/http://web.mta.info:80/capital/pdf/CapitalConstruction_1014.pdf | archive-date=2014-01-14}} From January 18, 2016, to May 22, 2017, the Manhattan-bound platforms of all stations were closed. At Bay Parkway and Eighth Avenue, temporary wooden platforms were placed on the southbound express trackbed.{{Cite web|title = N Line Sea Beach – 2016|url = http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/NLine2016/|website = web.mta.info|access-date = January 18, 2016|archive-date = January 18, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160118015523/http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/NLine2016/|url-status = dead}}

{{cite web | title=9 Brooklyn N train stations to shut down for 14 months | website=am New York | date=January 14, 2016 | url=http://www.amny.com/transit/n-train-closings-9-brooklyn-station-platforms-to-close-for-14-months-1.11325586 | access-date=January 18, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118131230/http://www.amny.com/transit/n-train-closings-9-brooklyn-station-platforms-to-close-for-14-months-1.11325586 | archive-date=January 18, 2016 | url-status=dead }}
{{cite web | last=Katinas | first=Paula | title=Commuter headache: MTA to renovate N train stations | website=Brooklyn Daily Eagle | date=December 18, 2014 | url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/12/18/commuter-headache-mta-renovate-n-train-stations | access-date=January 18, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027143028/http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/12/18/commuter-headache-mta-renovate-n-train-stations | archive-date=October 27, 2018 | url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://web.mta.info/nyct/maps/subway_map.pdf |title=New York City Subway Map |date=May 1, 2017 |website=mta.info |publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502011736/http://web.mta.info/nyct/maps/subway_map.pdf |archive-date=May 2, 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 2, 2017 }} After a two-month halt in construction, the Coney Island bound platforms closed on July 31, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://brooklynreporter.com/story/manhattan-bound-service-return-n-stations-sea-beach-line/|title=Manhattan-bound service to return to N stations on Sea Beach Line|last=DeJesus|first=Jaime|date=May 17, 2017|website=brooklynreporter.com|access-date=May 18, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/manhattan-bound-service-returns-n-stations-sea-beach-line|title=Manhattan-Bound Service Returns to N Stations on Sea Beach Line|date=May 17, 2017|website=www.mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=May 26, 2017|archive-date=July 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730064618/http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/manhattan-bound-service-returns-n-stations-sea-beach-line|url-status=dead}} The southbound platforms at Kings Highway, Avenue U, and 86th Street reopened on October 29, 2018, with closures lasting a month less than for their northbound counterparts.{{cite web|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/181113_1030_Transit.pdf|title=Transit & Bus Committee Meeting – November 2018|date=November 13, 2018|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|pages=164|access-date=November 10, 2018}} The southbound platforms between Eighth Avenue and Bay Parkway, however, were closed until July 1, 2019, six months longer than their northern counterparts and seven months longer than the other three southbound platforms.{{Cite web|url=http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?tag=ALL&date=07/01/2019&time=&method=getstatus4|title=Planned Service Changes for: Monday, July 1, 2019|date=July 1, 2019|website=travel.mtanyct.info|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701152409/http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?tag=ALL&date=7%2F1%2F2019&time=&method=getstatus4|archive-date=July 1, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=July 1, 2019}} The elevators at New Utrecht Avenue/62nd Street opened on July 19, 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/mta-installs-four-elevators-other-ada-features-new-utrecht-av62-st-station|title=MTA Installs Four Elevators, Other ADA Features at New Utrecht Av/62 St Station Complex|date=July 19, 2019|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=July 19, 2019|archive-date=January 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110100435/https://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/mta-installs-four-elevators-other-ada-features-new-utrecht-av62-st-station|url-status=dead}} The northbound elevator at Eighth Avenue opened on November 4, 2019,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/mta-opens-new-elevator-8-av-northbound-access-improve-accessibility|title=MTA Opens New Elevator at 8 Av for Northbound Access to Improve Accessibility in Southern Brooklyn|date=November 4, 2019|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=November 4, 2019|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106022640/http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/mta-opens-new-elevator-8-av-northbound-access-improve-accessibility|url-status=dead}} with the southbound elevator opening on July 30, 2023. From October 21, 2019, until April 27, 2020, N trains terminated at 86th Street so work could be completed to protect Coney Island Yard from flooding. An out-of-system transfer was made available between the N at 86th Street and the F at Avenue X station.{{Cite web|url=https://new.mta.info/system_modernization/coneyislandyard|title=Preparing for Climate Change: Protecting the Coney Island Yard|date=September 16, 2019|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|language=en|access-date=September 17, 2019}}

Station listing

class="wikitable" !Neighborhood !{{Access icon}} !Station !Tracks !Services !Opened !Transfers and notes
colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"\|splits from the BMT Fourth Avenue Line ({{NYCS Sea Beach\|time=show}})
colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"\|Two center express tracks begin ({{NYCS Sea Beach express\|time=show}}) (Southbound track disconnected from line; northbound track bi-directional)
Sunset Park \| align=center \| {{Access icon}} \|{{stl\|NYCS\|Eighth Avenue\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
rowspan="2"\|Borough Park \| \|{{stl\|NYCS\|Fort Hamilton Parkway\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
align=center \| {{Access icon}} \|{{stl\|NYCS\|New Utrecht Avenue}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|BMT West End Line ({{NYCS West End north\|time=show}}) at {{stl\|NYCS\|62nd Street}}
rowspan="2"\|Mapleton{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/12/05/archives/more-sea-beach-traffic-three-mapleton-stations-contribute-4000.html\|title=MORE SEA BEACH TRAFFIC.; Three Mapleton Stations Contribute 4,000 Passengers Daily.\|date=December 5, 1915\|work=The New York Times\|access-date=February 21, 2019\|language=en-US\|issn=0362-4331}} \| \|{{stl\|NYCS\|18th Avenue\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
\|{{stl\|NYCS\|20th Avenue\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
Bensonhurst \| \|{{stl\|NYCS\|Bay Parkway\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"\|Southbound express track reconnects to line ({{NYCS Sea Beach express\|time=show}})
rowspan=3\|Gravesend \| \|{{stl\|NYCS\|Kings Highway\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \| B82 Select Bus Service
\|{{stl\|NYCS\|Avenue U\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
\|{{stl\|NYCS\|86th Street\|Sea Beach}} \|local \|{{NYCS Sea Beach local\|time=show}} \|June 22, 1915 \|
colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"\|Center express tracks end
colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"\|connecting tracks to Coney Island Yard
Coney Island	{{Access icon}} \|nowrap\|{{stl\|NYCS\|Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue}} \|all \|{{NYCS Sea Beach south\|time=show}} \|December 13, 1918 \|BMT Brighton Line ({{NYCS Brighton south\|time=show}}) IND Culver Line ({{NYCS Culver IND south\|time=show}}) BMT West End Line ({{NYCS West End far south\|time=show}})

class="wikitable"

!Neighborhood

!{{Access icon}}

!Station

!Tracks

!Services

!Opened

!Transfers and notes

colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"|splits from the BMT Fourth Avenue Line ({{NYCS Sea Beach|time=show}})

colspan=7 style="background-color: silver;"|Two center express tracks begin ({{NYCS Sea Beach express|time=show}})
(Southbound track disconnected from line; northbound track bi-directional)

Sunset Park

| align=center | {{Access icon}}

|{{stl|NYCS|Eighth Avenue|Sea Beach}}

|local