Cumberland Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)

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{{Infobox NYCS

| type = former

| name = Cumberland Avenue

| image =

| image_caption =

| image_size = 275px

| line = BMT Fulton Street Line
BMT Brighton Line (until 1920)

| service_custom = None

| connection =Greene and Gates Avenues Line

| platforms = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| address = Fulton Street and Cumberland Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238

| borough = Brooklyn

| locale = Fort Greene

| coordinates = {{coord|40.685456|N|73.972282|W|display=inline,title}}

| division = BMT

| structure = Elevated

| open_date = {{start date and age|1888|04|24}}

| close_date = {{end date and age|1940|06|01}}

| next_topwest = Lafayette Avenue

| next_east = Vanderbilt Avenue

}}

Cumberland Avenue (also known as Cumberland Street) was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line. The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888.{{Cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2707487/fulton_el_opening/|title = General Jourdan Congratulated on an Anspicious Opening of His Line–Rapid Transit on Fulton Street at Last|date = April 24, 1888|access-date = February 19, 2016|via=Newspapers.com|newspaper = Brooklyn Daily Eagle}}{{Cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=2707733|title = Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening|date = May 31, 1940|access-date = February 19, 2016|via=Newspapers.com|newspaper = Brooklyn Daily Eagle}}{{Cite web|title = www.nycsubway.org: The Fulton Street Elevated (Brooklyn)|url = http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Fulton_Street_Elevated_(Brooklyn)|website = www.nycsubway.org|access-date = 2016-02-19}} The station had 2 tracks and 2 offset side platforms.{{Cite web|title=Fulton Street Elevated Line |url=http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm |date=2013-04-08 |access-date=2016-02-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408045756/http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm |archive-date=April 8, 2013 }} It was served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line, and until 1920, trains of the BMT Brighton Line. This station was served by steam locomotives between 1888 and 1899. In 1898, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899.{{Cite web|title = THE FULTON EL (A TRAIN)|url = http://www.robertkopolovicz.com/fulton.html|website = www.robertkopolovicz.com|access-date = 2016-02-19}} It also had a connection to the Greene and Gates Avenues Line trolleys. In 1936, the Independent Subway System built the Fulton Street subway and added a station nearby named Lafayette Avenue despite the fact that it was two blocks southeast of its namesake. The el station became obsolete, and it closed on June 1, 1940, when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.