Description
This underground station, opened on June 19, 1915 and completed on August 1, 1920, has six tracks with island platforms between the two outer pairs of tracks. The two center tracks bypass the station and are used by the D and N trains during daytime hours. B, Q, and late night D trains stop at the outermost tracks, R and late night N trains stop at the inner platform tracks. The platform columns are painted red on their lower halves and cream on their upper halves.
North of the station, the outer and bypass tracks head towards the Manhattan Bridge to Manhattan with a flying junction. The B and D trains use the north side of the bridge via the Chrystie Street Connection to the IND Sixth Avenue Line. The N and Q trains use the south side of the bridge to the BMT Broadway Line. The R and late night N trains continue on the middle tracks north along the BMT Fourth Avenue Line into the Montague Street Tunnel towards the BMT Broadway Line. The connection to the BMT Nassau Street Line is unused in regular service.
South of the station, the bypass tracks become the express tracks on the Fourth Avenue Line (daytime D and N trains). The four remaining tracks become six tracks at a flying junction. (Detailed view of current track layout) Trains headed south on the tunnel tracks or outer tracks proceed to the BMT Brighton Line (B and Q trains) or switches from those two tracks provide the route to the local tracks of the Fourth Avenue Line (R and late night D and N trains). In the current service pattern, the tunnel route is not used for Brighton Line trains.
| North-west of the station | ||
|---|---|---|
| BMT Fourth Avenue Line local N (late nights) R (all except late nights) |
BMT Broadway Line express N (all except late nights) Q (all times) |
IND Sixth Avenue Line express B (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) D (all times) |
| Manhattan Bridge south | Manhattan Bridge north | |
| tunnel tracks | bridge tracks | |
| In the station | ||
| inner platform tracks (tunnel) N (late nights) R (all except late nights) |
center tracks (bridge, bypass) D (all except late nights) N (all except late nights) |
outermost tracks (bridge) B (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) D (late nights) Q (all times) |
| South of the station | ||
| BMT Fourth Avenue Line local D (late nights) N (late nights) R (all except late nights) |
BMT Fourth Avenue Line express D (all except late nights) N (all except late nights) |
BMT Brighton Line B (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) Q (all times) |
Since it opened, DeKalb Avenue has been a major transfer point between BMT services, with the lines splitting north and south of the station. Platform extensions were built into a curve south of the station in 1927 to allow for longer trains. They were closed and replaced by straight extensions to the north in 1960. The abandoned portions can be seen from the open platforms and trains.
The station has a shortened mezzanine because room was needed for a proposed Lafayette Avenue line. The subway connection was never built. North of this station, near the Manhattan Bridge, there is a provision for a never-built loop back to southern Brooklyn without crossing the Manhattan Bridge into Manhattan. Bellmouths for the unbuilt loop are visible from passing trains. South of this station, a junction was built at Fulton Street for a never-built branch to run via Lafayette Avenue and Broadway.
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