Bergen Street is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, located at Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It is served by the 2 and 3 trains, the latter of which is replaced by the 4 train during late nights.
This underground station, opened on August 23, 1920, contains four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks, used by the 4 and 5 trains during daytime hours, slant upward at this station and between them are the rising tracks of the BMT Brighton Line. Those tracks were built at the same time as the tracks at this station as part of the Dual Contracts. A full curtain wall separates the local from the express tracks.
Both platforms have their original mosaics. The name tablets read "BERGEN ST." in gold Times New Roman font on a blue background and multi-layered green border. The trim line is green with "B" tablets on them on a blue background at regular intervals. At either ends of both platforms, where they were extended in the 1950s, there are cinderblock tiles with signs reading "BERGEN ST" in sans serif font on a maroon background.
Each platform has one same-level fare control area at the center and there are no crossovers or crossunders. The Manhattan-bound platform has the full-time turnstile bank and token booth and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue. The southbound platform's fare control area is unstaffed, containing a bank of three regular turnstiles, two exit-only turnstiles, and two High Entry/Exit Turnstiles. Outside fare control are two staircases going up to the southwest corners of Flatbush Avenue and Bergen Street and a passageway leading to another staircase going up to the northwest corner.
The platforms only have columns at the fare control areas and they are i-beam columns painted green.
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