Parkside Avenue is an open-cut (trenched) BMT Brighton Line Station. The station is a local stop with two-side platforms for the four tracked line. The station has its one main exit towards the middle of the platforms, here two staircases from each platform go up to a small station house that is located at street level above the tracks. The station house is of a quite decent sized and is tiled, it looks like it's original is in extremely good shape. There are still the light fixtures that have original incandescent light bulbs burning in them although florescent lights have been added to compliment these, and provide more light in the station house. The station house's doors lead out to the north side of Parkside Avenue, just east of its intersection with Ocean Avenue, and an entrance to Prospect Park Drive because this intersection is at the Southeastern end of Prospect Park.
South of the station house, the station feels underground, because cross-streets and houses have been built over the trench. There is a secondary exit here that is only from the Coney Island-bound platform at its extreme southern end. A High Exit Turnstile leads to a short concrete tunnel and then up to a street stair that looks like a standard underground subway entrance. This street stair is located at the SW corner of Woodruff Avenue and Ocean Avenue. This station gets the award of being the only stop that is not considered to be underground that has a street stair as an exit.
The station platforms feel like their underground for the southern three-quarters of the station and are covered for most of their northern halves by a concrete canopy. The extreme northern ends are completely exposed to the elements and have concrete walls. The rest of the lengths of the platforms have concrete columns that are painted red and a good portion of the walls are tiled with small name tablets that are written in a modern-font and say Parkside Av. The tiling forms diamonds on eitherside of these name tablets. The tops of the platform walls are painted red, forming a bit of a trim-line to complement the white tiles and bare portions of the walls.
Photos 1-6: March 14, 2004; 7-10: May 16, 2004; 11-20: April 2, 2006; 21-32: June 29, 2009;
R42 #4631 running as a J Shuttle turns at Parkside Avenue on the express tracks, it is running because of no 4 service to Brooklyn.
A name tablet at Parkside Avenue.
A R42 J train at Parkside Avenue viewed from the overpass into the station house
Looking down the 4 track Brighton Line trench at Parkside Avenue
The vary narrow end of the Manhattan-bound platform at Parkside Avenue
Parkside Avenue has a gentle curve, looking back towards the tunnel portion of the station where the station house is
A Manhattan-bound R68A Q train leaves Parkside Avenue (#5018 is at its rear).
A R42 M train, witch is Out of Service to turn around approaches Parkside Avenue, it is running this weekend due to construction on the 4 train, with no 4 service to Brooklyn.
R46 #4647, terminates turning around in the center express tracks at Parkside Avenue running on the M
A Manhattan-bound R68A Q train enters Parkside Avenue with a hint of Orange on its front rollsign, the R42s of an M train turning in the background
A R42 J Shuttle train leaves Prospect Park on the express track to terminate in on the express tracks at Parkside Avenue
R42 #4844 runs down the express track near Prospect Avenue to turn around
A Manhattan-bound R68(A) Q train passes a R42 J shuttle train terminating in the express tracks at Prospect Avenue
R42 #4844 sits on the express track at Prospect Avenue as it becomes the rear of a J Shuttle train (replacing the #4) to Essex Street
A Manhattan-bound R68(A) Q train leaves Prospect Avenue
Coney Island-bound Q train R68 #2824 enters Prospect Avenue passing a J Shuttle train (R42 #4844) laying-up on the express track
An ornate fence marks the entrance to the Flatbush Ave & Ocean Ave, northern station house at Prospect Park.
A close up of an ornate iron fence with elephant motifs on top of it, (the station is near the Prospect Park zoo), at an entrance to the plaza that leads to the Flatbush & Ocean Avs (northern) station house at Prospect Park.
Its a bit hard to tell that this is a subway entrance to Prospect Park, except for the subway station indicator post with a red bulb (it really should be green, the entrance is never closed and staffed except between 2am and 6am).
Looking back towards the actual entrance to the subway in its little entry plaza at the Ocean & Flatbush (northern) station house at Prospect Park.
Last Updated: March 24, 2022
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