Bay Ridge - 95th Street

Bay Ridge – 95th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

Bay Ridge – 95th Street New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station platform.
Station statistics
Address	95th Street & 4th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11209
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Fort Hamilton
Coordinates	40°36′56.40″N 74°1′52.90″W / 40.615667°N 74.031361°WCoordinates: 40°36′56.40″N 74°1′52.90″W / 40.615667°N 74.031361°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services	R (all times)
Connection	New York City Bus: B8 (late night only), B63, B70
Structure	Underground
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	October 27, 1925
Former/other names	95th Street – Fort Hamilton
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	1.701 million 1.85%
Rank	258 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	86th Street: R
Next south	(Terminal): R
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

Bay Ridge – 95th Street (originally 95th Street – Fort Hamilton) is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Despite the name, the station is actually located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Hamilton (as its original name implies) at the intersection of 95th Street and 4th Avenue. It is served by the R train at all times.

This underground station, opened on October 27, 1927 and refurbished in the late 1970s, has two tracks on one island platform. It is the last to be built for the Forth Avenue Line and geographically the westernmost in the subway. This station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for an express line underneath the Narrows to Staten Island that never materialized.

Both platform walls have their original mosaic trim line with name tablets reading "95TH STREET." in Times New Roman font along the entire station except for a small section at the north end, where the platform was extended in the 1950s to accommodate the current standard "B" Division train length of 600 feet. Here, the wall is bare black.

This station has two mezzanines above the platform and tracks, but mosaic directional signs indicate they were originally one full-length mezzanine. The closed-off sections are now used for employee-only spaces.

The station's larger, full-time mezzanine is at the south end. It has two staircases from each platform, turnstile bank, token booth, two restrooms, and two staircases going up to either western corners of Fourth Avenue and 95th Street. A passageway leads to another staircase that is built inside alcove of 9488 Fifth Avenue.

The station's other mezzanine is unstaffed, containing one staircase from the platform, High Entry/Exit Turnstiles, and two staircases going up to either southern corners of 93rd Street and Fifth Avenue.

South of this station, there at the end of the tracks for a planned extension to 101st Street. There were also plans to construct an underground storage yard here.

The Dyker Heights campus of Poly Prep Country Day School is nearby.

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References

External links

• nycsubway.org — BMT 4th Avenue Line: 95th Street/Fort Hamilton
• Station Reporter — R Train
• The Subway Nut - Bay Ridge – 95th Street Station Pictures
• 95th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• 93rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

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