36th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
36th Street is an express station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
This is an express station with four tracks and two island platforms. The R train provides local service, while the D and N trains run express (except during late nights, when all trains provide local service). During late nights, this station is the northern terminal for the R shuttle to Bay Ridge – 95th Street. South of here, N and R trains continue on Fourth Avenue, while D trains diverge east onto the BMT West End Line.
This is one of two "36th Street" stations served by the R train. The other is 36th Street on the IND Queens Boulevard Line.
The station was overhauled from 1996–1998. The changes included rebuilt staircases, retiled walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights, installing ADA yellow safety treads along the platform edge, new track-beds for local and express trains and also installing some artwork around the entrance.
The station became famous briefly in 2012 after a video was posted on the internet of numerous commuters tripping on a staircase leading to the street, as a result of a single stair that is "a fraction of an inch" taller than the rest.
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