Description
This open cut station has four tracks and two island platforms. Both platforms have red canopies with green frames and support columns that run for the either length. Alternating columns have the standard black station name plate in white lettering.
At the north end of the station, the two express tracks, used by the B and Q trains, ramp down into a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue parallel to the IRT Eastern Parkway Line before merging with the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at DeKalb Avenue while the local tracks curve to the northeast and become an open cut after a short tunnel towards Franklin Avenue. The platforms are split into two sections at this end separated by a beige concrete wall. The Franklin Avenue Shuttle terminates on the northbound local track while the southbound one is not normally used in revenue service.
South of the station, there are crossovers and switches as the Brighton Line becomes a four track line to Ocean Parkway. B trains stay on the express track and run to Brighton Beach while Q trains switch to the local track and run to Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue.
The station has two entrances/exits. The full time one is at the extreme south end. A single double-wide staircase and ADA-accessible elevators go up from each platform to a beige ground level station house that is on the north side of the Lincoln Road overpass above the platforms between Ocean and Flatbush Avenues. There is a bank of turnstiles, a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, and a token booth inside the station house, which is shared with a private preschool. Each platform elevator is connected to the station house by a glass-enclosed passageway above their respective platforms.
The station's other entrance/exit at the north end is un-staffed. Two staircases from each platform at the tunnel portal go up to a waiting area, where a bank of turnstiles and one exit-only turnstile lead to a mezzanine that had its part-time token booth removed in 2010. Outside fare control, a single staircase goes up to a small plaza with an ornate fence between two buildings on the west side of Flatbush Avenue between Ocean and Lefferts Avenues. On the opposite side of this staircase in the mezzanine, there is an emergency exit that has a single staircase going up to an alleyway that leads to Saint Paul's Place.
The 1994 artwork here is called Brighton Clay Re-Leaf by Susan Tunick. It features ceramic tiles in both station entrances/exits that depict leaves to symbolize Prospect Park. This artwork is also at Parkside Avenue.
Read more about this topic: Prospect Park (BMT Brighton Line)
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