77th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

77th Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Uptown platform

Station statistics

Address

77th Street & Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11209

Borough

Brooklyn

Locale

Bay Ridge

Coordinates

40°37′42.59″N 74°1′33.37″W / 40.6284972°N 74.0259361°WCoordinates: 40°37′42.59″N 74°1′33.37″W / 40.6284972°N 74.0259361°W

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Fourth Avenue Line

Services

R (all times)

Transit connections

New York City Bus: B4, B63 (on Fifth Avenue)

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

January 15, 1916^[1]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

1,723,178^[2]

0.7%

Rank

280 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

Bay Ridge Avenue: R

Next south

86th Street: R

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

Location
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77th Street is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the R train at all times and is located at 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to Bay Ridge Av

to 86 St

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
B2	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Whitehall Street late nights) (Bay Ridge Avenue)
	Southbound	→ toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (86th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Stairs on east side of Fourth Avenue

This underground station, which opened on January 15, 1916,^[1]^[3] has two side platforms and two tracks.^[4] Both platforms have cinderblock tiles on white and orange, which replaced the station's original mosaic trim line and name tablets during a renovation in the late 1970s. The renovation also replaced incandescent lights with fluorescent lights and installed new staircases and platform edges. The station signs are in the standard black name plate with white lettering installed on the orange tiling. There are also small white text directing to the station entrances/exits.

Both platforms have yellow columns that run at regular intervals along the entire length. Alternating ones have the standard black and white station name plate. The columns are round in the center and i-beams at either ends (where the platforms were extended in the 1950s to accommodate the current standard length of a B Division train of 600 feet).

The station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for a possible extension of the express tracks south of 59th Street.^[5] As a result of the possibility of the extension of the express tracks, there is space underneath the northbound platform for an additional trackway at this station for the Bay Ridge-bound express track. This also can be found at Bay Ridge Avenue.

Exits

The station's full-time entrance is a mezzanine at the south end above the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from each platform go up to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the system. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going up to either northern corners of 77th Street and Fourth Avenue. The northwest staircase has its original ornate banisters and railings. Inside the mezzanine, there are mosaics indicating a newsstand and two restrooms, all of which are now defunct, and directing to each platform.

In addition, the Bay Ridge-bound platform has an exit-only at the north end. A single platform-level exit-only turnstiles leads to a double flight staircase that goes up to the northwest corner of 76th Street and Fourth Avenue. The landing here has the station's original trim line with "77" tablets on it.

References

1 2 "Subway Running To Eighty-Sixth Street Starts Building Boom In Bay Ridge". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. January 15, 1916. Retrieved 29 June 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
↑ Senate, New York (State) Legislature (1917-01-01). Documents of the Senate of the State of New York.
↑ Marrero, Robert (2015-09-13). "469 Stations, 846 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
↑ "Brooklyn Subway Extension Plan: Fourth Ave. Line to 86th St., Tunnel to Staten Island, and Eventually a Through Route to Coney Island". nytimes.com. The New York Times. February 16, 1912. Retrieved 28 June 2015.

External links

nycsubway.org – BMT 4th Avenue: 77th Street
Station Reporter — R Train
The Subway Nut — 77th Street Pictures
77th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
76th Street exit only stairs from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations

4th Ave. Line	[← to South Ferry–Whitehall Street, Broadway Line / ← ~~to Broad Street, Nassau St. Line~~] Court Street Jay Street–MetroTech [← to Canal Street, Broadway Line via Manhattan Bridge / ← to Grand Street, 6th Ave. Line via Manhattan Bridge and Chrystie Street Connection] Myrtle Avenue DeKalb Avenue [to Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center, Brighton Line →] Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center Union Street Ninth Street Prospect Avenue 25th Street 36th Street [to Ninth Avenue, West End Line →] 45th Street 53rd Street 59th Street [to Eighth Avenue, Sea Beach Line →] Bay Ridge Avenue 77th Street 86th Street Bay Ridge–95th Street

See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Stations and line segments in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

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