Fulton Street Line (elevated)

BMT Fulton Street Elevated
Downtown terminals at Sands Street station in 1936, which the Fulton Street Line shared with others
Overview
Owner	City of New York
Termini	Fulton Ferry Lefferts Avenue–119th Street
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
Operator(s)	New York City Transit Authority
History
Opened	1888 (1888)
Completed	1925 (1925)
Closed	1940 (1940) (west of Rockaway Avenue) 1956 (1956) (Rockaway-Grant Avenues)
Technical
Number of tracks	2-3
Character	Elevated
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map Legend 0.0 mi 0 km [1] Park Row Brooklyn Bridge (East River) Fulton Ferry (Lexington Av El closed 1904[2]) Sands Street Myrtle Avenue & Lexington Avenue Elevated 0.52 mi 0.84 km Clark Street | Tillary Street 0.74 mi 1.19 km Court Street | Myrtle Avenue 0.91 mi 1.46 km Boerum Place 1.18 mi 1.9 km Elm Place–Duffield Street 1.37 mi 2.2 km Flatbush Avenue (Fourth Avenue Subway) Brighton Beach Line Fifth Avenue Elevated Lexington Avenue Elevated 1.63 mi 2.62 km Lafayette Avenue 1.88 mi 3.03 km Cumberland Avenue 2.14 mi 3.44 km Vanderbilt Avenue 2.48 mi 3.99 km Grand Avenue 2.81 mi 4.52 km Franklin Avenue Franklin Avenue Line 3.15 mi 5.07 km Nostrand Avenue 3.44 mi 5.54 km Brooklyn Avenue | Tompkins Avenue 3.78 mi 6.08 km Albany Avenue | Sumner Avenue Troy Avenue 4.15 mi 6.68 km Reid Avenue 4.60 mi 7.4 km Ralph Avenue Saratoga Avenue 5.18 mi 8.34 km Rockaway Avenue Broadway Elevated | 14th Street–Eastern Line Manhattan Junction – Broadway Junction Jamaica Line Atlantic Avenue (LIRR Atlantic Branch) Canarsie Line Eastern Parkway Hinsdale Street Pennsylvania Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Linwood Street Montauk Avenue Chestnut Street Crescent Street Grant Avenue Fulton Street Subway Hudson Street–80th Street Boyd Avenue–88th Street Rockaway Boulevard–96th Street Rockaway Line (former LIRR) Oxford Avenue–104th Street Greenwood Avenue–111th Street Lefferts Avenue–119th Street This diagram: view talk edit

The Fulton Street Line, also called the Fulton Street Elevated or Kings County Line, was an elevated rail line mostly in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, in Downtown Brooklyn east to East New York, and then south on Van Sinderen Avenue (southbound) and Snediker Avenue (northbound), east on Pitkin Avenue, north on Euclid Avenue, and east on Liberty Avenue to Ozone Park, Queens.

The portion in Brooklyn has been torn down, but most of the line in Queens has been connected to the New York City Subway and is now part of the IND Fulton Street Line (served by the A). The section of the IND Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn is an underground line, replacing the elevated line. The structure was the main line of the Kings County Elevated Railway, which first opened in 1888.