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Franklin Avenue (irt Eastern Parkway Line)




  Font Color white
  Bg Color red
  Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line
  Service Eastern west
  Platforms Island platforms
  Tracks 4
  Borough Brooklyn
  Transfer Station Botanic Garden
  Transfer Line BMT Franklin Avenue Line
  Transfer Service Franklin
  Open Month Day August 23
  Open Year 1920
  North Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line
  North Local Station Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum
  North Local Service Eastern west local
  North Express Station Atlantic Avenue
  North Express Service Eastern west express
  South Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line
  South Custom Station Eastern Parkway local:<br /> Nostrand Avenue <br />
  South Custom Station 2 Eastern Parkway express:<br /> Utica Avenue <br />
  South Custom Station 3 Nostrand Avenue Line:<br /> President Street <br />


Franklin Avenue is a station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway , located at Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn . It is served by the , , , and trains.

It is an express station with two island platforms between the local and express tracks. East of this station is Rogers Junction, where the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line diverges from the Eastern Parkway Line and turns compass south under Nostrand Avenue . Between the station and the junction, the southbound express track crosses to the east side, running above the northbound express track, and the northbound local track crosses to the west side, below the southbound local track. Crossover tracks allow express trains to access Rogers Junction and the Nostrand Avenue Line, which is only connected to the local tracks; this is a point of congestion during rush hours.

There is a closed Tower at the south end of the southbound platform. A free transfer to the BMT Franklin Avenue Shuttle was added in 1999 using a passageway that had existed since October 1928 , when the BMT Botanic Garden station opened.


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