Станция метро Нью-Кирк Плаза в Бруклине: История и реконструкция.

New York City Subway station in Brooklyn

The Newkirk Plaza station is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway in Flatbush, Brooklyn. It is located on an open cut at the center of the pedestrian only Newkirk Plaza shopping mall, which is bounded by Newkirk Avenue on the north, Foster Avenue on the south, Marlborough Road to the west, and East 16th Street to the east. The station is served by the Q train at all times and by the B train on weekdays only.

The station opened around 1900 as a two track surface station named South Midwood, a reference to its location at the southern end of the former Town of Flatbush, which was also historically known as Midwood. Currently, Midwood is considered to be the area south of where the station now stands, so it would now more correctly be described as being in South Flatbush or North Midwood. The station was located along the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad line to Brighton Beach, which was built in 1878. In 1903, a reconstruction project began to remove grade crossings along the line as part of the "Brighton Beach Improvement," which also rebuilt stations of the Brighton Beach Line and electrified the line due to increased ridership on the line. In 1981, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system. Starting in the late 1980s or early 1990s, business owners in the adjoining shopping area began advocating for the station to be renamed after the mall. The station and mall underwent reconstruction from 2009 to 2011. This included installation of yellow warning strips on the platform edges and repainting of the columns from red to green. The renovation cost $30 million. As part of the renovation of the station, it was renamed Newkirk Plaza in August 2011. Two pairs of I beam columns run along the lengths of both platforms. The stops here at all times and is local, while the stops here only on weekdays during the day and is express. The next stop to the north is Cortelyou Road for local trains and Church Avenue for express trains, while the next stop to the south is Avenue H for local trains and Kings Highway for express trains.

Directly above the station is the Newkirk Plaza shopping area, which is located on either side of a pedestrian walkway above the station. The shopping area is of an open air format and all the stores face a passageway that is owned and maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation; however, the stores are privately owned. Many of the stores there are small family owned businesses,

This station appeared in the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish" and was portrayed as being in Fry's old neighborhood of Ditmas Park, considering his old home is a detached albeit run down Victorian house. It also appeared in the films Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Man Push Cart.