History
Bergen Street opened on March 20, 1933, as the first station of the IND Culver Line. Service began one month after the expansion of the IND into Brooklyn to Jay Street - Borough Hall. Trains ran up the Eighth Avenue Line to its northern terminus at 207th Street in Inwood at the time. A southward extension to Church Avenue opened on October 7 of that same year.
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