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The Bedford Avenue station is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Bedford Avenue and North Seventh Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , it is served by the L train at all times.
Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District was designated on April 16, 2013, [59] and extended the Stuyvesant Heights district north to Jefferson Avenue, east to Malcolm X Boulevard, and west to Tompkins Avenue. [52] The Bedford Historic District was created on December 8, 2015, and is roughly bounded by Fulton Street ...
South end at Sheepshead Bay. Bedford Avenue is the longest [2] street in Brooklyn, New York City, stretching 10.2 miles (16.4 km) and 132 blocks, from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint south to Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, and passing through the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, and Sheepshead Bay.
Both the BMT Franklin Avenue Line and BMT Brighton Line began as another excursion railroad to Coney Island called the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway. Originating on July 2, 1878, the BF&CI ran from the former Bedford Station on the Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, to Brighton Beach.
Nostrand Avenue is an elevated station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.Trains leave every 12–15 minutes during peak hours and 30 minutes during off-peak hours until 11 p.m.
Plans for a crosstown subway line were floated as early as 1912. [4] [5] In 1923, a plan for such a line, to be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) from the Queensboro Bridge under Jackson Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, Roebling Street, Bedford Avenue, and Hancock Street to Franklin Avenue at the north end of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line, [6] was adopted by the city. [7]
The G train's southern extension to Church Avenue, implemented in 2009 and confirmed permanently in 2012, was also seen as a service improvement. It reduced the need for riders from Park Slope and Kensington to make multiple train transfers to get to northern Brooklyn and Long Island City. [9] [16] [35]
Nostrand Avenue, Bedford Avenue / Rogers Avenue or New York Avenue (southbound only) End: Sheepshead Bay: Avenue U and Nostrand Avenue (short runs) Emmons Avenue and Nostrand Avenue (late night terminus) [note 1] Knapp Street and Emmons Avenue (full route) Length: 9.3 miles (15.0 km) [1] Other routes: Nostrand Avenue Subway: Service; Operates