Park Row station
Park Row | |||||||||||||||
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Park Row station, c. 1905 | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Brooklyn Bridge & Centre St Brooklyn Bridge Promenade Park Row, New York | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′44″N 74°0′16″W / 40.71222°N 74.00444°W | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | BMT Myrtle Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 island platforms (2 main terminal, 1 west end) 4 side platforms (2 main terminal, 2 west end) Spanish solution (West End) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 6 (4 main terminal, 2 West End) | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | June 18, 1898 | ||||||||||||||
| Closed | March 5, 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Former services in 1939 | |||||||||||||||
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The Park Row station was a major elevated railway terminal constructed on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, across from New York City Hall and the IRT's elevated City Hall station. It served as the terminal for BMT services operating over the Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Line from the BMT Fulton Street Line, BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, and their feeders. Until the opening of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge to elevated train traffic in 1913, it was the only Manhattan station available for elevated trains from Brooklyn and the only elevated station in Manhattan to be owned by a company other than the IRT or its predecessors.