Cleveland Street station

This elevated station was originally built by the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad as the first station to be built along the Cypress Hills extension of the Lexington Avenue Elevated line, which was also shared by the Broadway Elevated east of Gates Avenue. The station opened on May 30, 1893. The station has been exclusively for the Jamaica Line since the closure of the Lexington Avenue Line on October 13, 1950.{{Cite news |date=October 14, 1950 |title=Brooklyn 'El' Link Dies With Aplomb; Celebrants Pack Last Train to Run on Lexington Spur, Soon to Be Torn Down In Service For 65 Years Riders Were So Scarce That Its 8 Stations Were Closed at Night for Last 10 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/10/14/archives/brooklyn-el-link-dies-with-aplomb-celebrants-pack-last-train-to-run.html |access-date=April 4, 2018 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

The station was closed for renovations in the mid-2000s. As part of the station renovation project, the stairs were rehabilitated, the floors were renewed, major structural repairs were made, new canopies were installed, the area around the station booth was reconfigured, the platform edge strips were replaced, walls were replaced, and a high-quality public address system was installed.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvnj.htm |title=MTA NYC Transit Subway Line Information |date=December 21, 2005 |website=mta.info |publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority |access-date=October 2, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051221181458/http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvnj.htm |archive-date=December 21, 2005 }} The renovation cost $8.41 million.{{Cite report|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/adopted06/MTA%202006%20Adopted%20Budget%20-%20February%20Financial%20Plan%20-%20Part%203.pdf|title=MTA 2006 Adopted Budget - February Financial Plan - Part 3|date=2006|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|page=46|access-date=March 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524004440/http://web.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/adopted06/MTA%202006%20Adopted%20Budget%20-%20February%20Financial%20Plan%20-%20Part%203.pdf|archive-date=May 24, 2019}}

The station has two tracks and one island platform.{{NYCS const|trackref|trackbook3}} The canopy is located at the west end of the platform and is short and has arched supports.{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/clevelandj/clevelandj3.jpg|title=Looking towards the canopied area of the platform at Cleveland Street by the station house that is attached at one end. The canopy coves maybe two cars|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 25, 2008|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=January 31, 2019}}

The station's only entrance and exit is a station house at the west end of the platform. It has a bank of two turnstiles, token booth,{{Cite web|url=http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/clevelandj/clevelandj8.jpg|title=The very small and narrow fare control area at Cleveland St sow just how small the station's platform is.|last=Cox|first=Jeremiah|date=June 25, 2008|website=subwaynut.com|access-date=January 31, 2019}} and one staircase going down to an elevated passageway beneath the tracks. Outside of fare control, there are two stairs, one to each western corner of Fulton and Cleveland Streets.{{Cite web|url=https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2018-04/Cleveland%20St%20%28J%29%20web.pdf|title=Neighborhood Map: Cleveland St (J)|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=November 18, 2018}}

• Substation 401

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• {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?192:2356|BMT Jamaica Line|Cleveland Street}}
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108033658/http://www.stationreporter.net/jtrain.htm J Train]
• The Subway Nut — [http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/clevelandj/index.php Cleveland Street Pictures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814140616/http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/clevelandj/index.php |date=August 14, 2019 }}
• MTA's Arts For Transit — [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606073116/http://mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=J&station=5&xdev=375 Cleveland Street (BMT Jamaica Line)]
• [https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.679556,-73.885524&spn=0,0.013314&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.679669,-73.885556&panoid=9do9XEHv0T3v0PQorT8T5g&cbp=12,236.06,,0,6.74 Cleveland Street entrance from Google Maps Street View]
• [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cleveland+St/@40.6800232,-73.884491,3a,75y,42.83h,88.3t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-kSIs5T_nwhc%2FWUXg2lts_eI%2FAAAAAAAAtK0%2Fc8RRz-W5myco-B-xy1FLSItbUzX2JHzhQCLIBGAYYCw!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-kSIs5T_nwhc%2FWUXg2lts_eI%2FAAAAAAAAtK0%2Fc8RRz-W5myco-B-xy1FLSItbUzX2JHzhQCLIBGAYYCw%2Fw234-h106-k-no-pi-0-ya140-ro-0-fo100%2F!7i9728!8i4864!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25db5b8218c29:0x7f89d405803dc6c0!8m2!3d40.6799464!4d-73.8846391 Platform from Google Maps Street View]

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