Borough: Brooklyn
SUBWAY: S
S (Franklin Avenue (all times) To: Franklin Avenue/Fulton Street (Northbound) or Prospect Park (Southbound) via Botanic Garden
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(all photos
are by Jeremiah Cox on 20 February, 2004)
Park Place is the only stop on the Franklin Shuttle where there are no transfers. The stop is very simple after the 1998-1999 reconstruction when the shuttle was replaced by buses for 1+ years. This also gave the stop only one track. There was originally an island platform, the track in use is the former Prospect Park-bound track. It is obvious where the other track was. The platform is long enough for only two 75 foot cars. Fare control is towards the southern end of the track, in a large well lit head house that also has the waiting area and a LED display saying where the next train is going. Here there is a ramp to Prospect Place or stairs to Park Place. The abandoned and removed Deen Street station is just a bit farther north (it had side platforms) and is now completely removed (from 1995 when the station was closed until 1999 the side platforms were still in tacked covered in graffiti). The station is on an embankment. Just south of the station trains rise from an open-cut. Just north an el begins
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| (parks1) A Franklin/Fulton-bound S (R-68) leaves Park Place (S) on the single track | (parks2) Looking down towards the southern end of the platform at Park Place (S) | (parks3) Looking back up the platform at Park Place (S) | (parks4) Looking across from the platform at the ramp/staircase to Prospect Pl. at Park Place (S) |
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| (parks5) A pointless fire exit (there is no way to open the gate) on the northern end of the platform at Park Place (S) | (parks6) Looking into the garbage pit where the former Prospect Park-bound track was at Park Place (S) | (parks7) The braille and stenciled station directions, they still say that it is the D Q at Prospect Park at Park Place (S) | (parks8) The sign about trains arriving from both directions at Park Place (S) |
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| (parks9) The staircase out of the station house down to Park Place (S) | (parks10) A Prospect Park-bound S (R-68) entering Park Place (S) going over the bridge over Prospect Place | (parks11) A S (R-68) stopped a Park Place (S) |
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About Park Place
Location:
@Franklin Avenue
Bus Connections: B65
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<S Franklin Avenue|Botanic Garden S>
