Fulton Street is a long east–west street in northern Brooklyn , New York City . This street begins at the intersection of Adams Street and Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights , and runs eastward to East New York and Cypress Hills . At the border with Queens , Fulton Street becomes 91st Avenue, which ends at 84th Street in Woodhaven .
87-783: The street is named after Robert Fulton ; a street of the same name in Manhattan was linked to this street by Fulton with his steam ferries. For a hundred years before the Fulton Ferry monopoly, Fulton Street was the Ferry Road through Jamaica Pass and, in the centuries before any ferry service, Indian path to the Hempstead Plains . It began at the Fulton Ferry Landing and climbed south through Brooklyn Heights past Brooklyn Borough Hall to where it now begins at Adams Street. Part of
174-479: A grid plan , the streets are named to indicate their location on a Cartesian coordinate plane . For example, the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 for Manhattan provided for numbered streets running parallel to the minor axis of the island and numbered and lettered avenues running parallel to the long axis of the island, although many of the avenues have since been assigned names for at least part of their courses. In
261-669: A change in official language. After the death of Francisco Franco , the Spanish transition to democracy gave Catalonia the status of an autonomous community , with Catalan as a co- official language . While some street names in Catalonia were changed entirely, most were merely given the Catalan translations of their previous Castilian names; for example, Calle San Pablo (Saint Paul Street) in Barcelona became Carrer Sant Pau . In most cases, this
348-629: A changing or previously unrecognized ethnic community or to honour politicians or local heroes. In towns such as Geneva , Brussels , Namur and Poznań initiatives have recently been taken to name or rename more streets and other public spaces after women. A changed political regime can trigger widespread changes in street names – many place names in Zimbabwe changed following their independence in 1980, with streets named after British colonists being changed to those of Zimbabwean nationalist leaders. After Ukraine 's pro-Western revolution in 2014,
435-520: A direction (the cardinal points east, west, north, south, or the quadrants NW, NE, SW, SE) especially in cities with a grid-numbering system. Examples include "E Roosevelt Boulevard" and "14th Street NW". These directions are often (though not always) used to differentiate two sections of a street. Other qualifiers may be used for that purpose as well. Examples: upper/lower, old/new, or adding "extension". " Main Street " and " High Street " are common names for
522-651: A grid, such as Arlington County, Virginia , a grid-based naming system is still sometimes used to give a semblance of order. Often, the numbered streets run east–west and the numbered avenues north–south, following the style adopted in Manhattan, although this is not always observed. In some cases, streets in "half-blocks" in between two consecutive numbered streets have a different designator, such as Court or Terrace, often in an organized system where courts are always between streets and terraces between avenues. Sometimes yet another designator (such as "Way", "Place", or "Circle")
609-462: A huge street renaming campaign began in the early 20th century, changing almost all of the street names into numbers, in accordance with the adoption of a new unified house numbering scheme. Some New York City Subway stations retained their names, instead of changing with their corresponding street(s). A few examples survive today, such as 33rd Street–Rawson Street station . Sometimes street renaming can be controversial, because of antipathy toward
696-534: A major artery of Downtown Brooklyn , Fort Greene and Clinton Hill . At Franklin Avenue, Fulton Street then becomes the signature street of Bedford–Stuyvesant . At Broadway Junction in East New York , the street is interrupted by the intersection of Broadway and Jamaica Avenue , but continues on the other side as a one-way residential street through East New York and Cypress Hills until Norwood Avenue, once again as
783-545: A particular theme. One example is Philadelphia , where the major east–west streets in William Penn 's original plan for the city carry the names of trees: from north to south, these were Vine, Sassafras, Mulberry, High (not a tree), Chestnut, Walnut, Locust, Spruce, Pine, Lombard and Cedar. (Sassafras, Mulberry, High and Cedar have since been renamed to Race, Arch, Market [the main east–west street downtown] and South.) Other examples of themed streets: In many cities laid out on
870-540: A railway. Many roads are given the name of the place to which they lead, while others bear the names of distant, seemingly unrelated cities. As a road approaches its stated destination, its name may be changed. Hartford Avenue in Wethersfield, Connecticut , becomes Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut , for example. A road can switch names multiple times as local opinion changes regarding its destination: for example,
957-447: A street is named after a landmark that was destroyed to build that very street. For example, New York's Canal Street takes its name from a canal that was filled in to build it. New Orleans' Canal Street was named for the canal that was to be built in its right-of-way. While names such as Long Road or Nine Mile Ride have an obvious meaning, some road names' etymologies are less clear. The various Stone Streets, for example, were named at
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#17328546166371044-508: A street named "Park Avenue" need not have the characteristics of an avenue in the generic sense. Some street names have only one element, such as "The Beeches" or "Boulevard". In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was common when writing a two-part street name (especially in Britain) to link the two parts with a hyphen and not capitalise the generic (e.g. Broad-street, London-road). This practice has now died out. A street name can also include
1131-670: A street named after Patrice Lumumba in Kyiv was renamed the street of John Paul II . In Portugal , both the Republican Revolution in 1910 and the Carnation Revolution in 1974 triggered widespread changes in street names to replace references to the deposed regimes (the Monarchy and Estado Novo respectively) with references to the revolutions themselves, as well as to figures and concepts associated with them. In response to
1218-427: A time when the art of building paved (stone) Roman roads had been lost. The main road through Old Windsor , UK, is called "Straight Road", and it is straight where it carries that name. Many streets with regular nouns rather than proper nouns, are somehow related to that noun. For example, Station Street or Station Road, do connect to a railway station, and many "Railway Streets" or similar do end at, cross or parallel
1305-789: A two-way street reaching the Queens border at Elderts Lane in Woodhaven , Queens . There it becomes 91st Avenue, which continues until 84th Street in Queens. On March 10, 2005, Fulton Street was co-named Harriet Ross Tubman Avenue along most of its length from Rockaway Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Elm Place in Downtown Brooklyn , on the anniversary of the death of the ex-slave and abolitionist, which has been designated " Harriet Tubman Day of Commemoration" in New York State. Fulton Street
1392-456: A waiting period of ten years or more. A dozen streets in San Francisco 's North Beach neighborhood were renamed in 1988 after deceased local writers; in 1994, the city broke with tradition, honoring Lawrence Ferlinghetti by renaming an alley after the poet within his own lifetime. Naming a street for a person is very common in many countries, often in the honorand's birthplace. However, it
1479-605: Is also the most controversial type of naming, especially in cases of renaming. Two main reasons streets are renamed are: (1) to commemorate a person who lived or worked in that area (for example, Avenue Victor Hugo in Paris , where he resided); or (2) to associate a prominent street in a city after an admired major historical figure even with no specific connection to the locale (for example, René Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal , formerly Dorchester Boulevard). Similarly, hundreds of roads in
1566-587: Is in York . The unusual etymologies of quite a few street names in the United Kingdom are documented in Rude Britain , complete with photographs of local signage . In the past, many streets were named for the type of commerce or industry found there. This rarely happens in modern times, but many such older names are still common. Examples are London's Haymarket ; Barcelona's Carrer de Moles (Millstone Street), where
1653-642: Is named after a locally famous physician whose clinic was located there. Many streets named after saints are named because they lead to, or are adjacent to, churches dedicated to them. Naming a street after oneself as a bid for immortality has a long pedigree: Jermyn Street in London was named by Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans , who developed the St. James's area for Charles II of England . Perhaps to dissuade such posterity-seeking, many jurisdictions only allow naming for persons after their death, occasionally with
1740-557: Is named after the Estudis Generals, a university building demolished in 1843, and the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica are each named after former convents. Only the convent of Santa Monica survives as a building, and it has been converted to a museum. London's Crystal Palace Parade takes its name from a former exhibition centre that stood adjacent to it, destroyed by fire in 1936. Sometimes
1827-406: Is served by the following subway lines: These bus routes serve the corridor: Fulton Mall is a pedestrian street and transit mall in Downtown Brooklyn that runs on Fulton Street between Flatbush Avenue and Adams Street. It contains 230 stores and dedicated bus lanes . For the mall's length, only buses, commercial vehicles, local truck deliveries, and emergency vehicles are allowed to use
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#17328546166371914-669: Is the local business improvement district . According to the Improvement Association, in 2003 the Fulton Mall area saw between 100,000 and 125,000 visitors a day. The mall has spurred additional commercial development in its immediate vicinity, such as the City Point development, and has become the most expensive place to do business in downtown Brooklyn. Fulton Street's retail space was $ 301 per square foot in 2016 and $ 326 per square foot in 2017. The Macy's store at 422 Fulton Street
2001-419: Is used for streets which go at a diagonal or curve around, and hence do not fit easily in the grid. In many cases, the block numbers correspond to the numbered cross streets; for instance, an address of 1600 may be near 16th Street or 16th Avenue. In a city with both lettered and numbered streets, such as Washington, D.C., the 400 block may be between 4th and 5th streets or between D and E streets, depending on
2088-624: The BMT Brighton Line and BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway , located at the intersection of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenues in Downtown Brooklyn . It is served by the Q and R trains at all times, the B train on weekdays, and the D and N trains during late nights. During rush hours only, a few W train trips also serve this station. The station has six tracks and two island platforms . The two innermost tracks are used by Fourth Avenue express trains, which skip
2175-520: The BMT Brighton Line or switch from those two tracks and provide the route to the Fourth Avenue Line local tracks. In the current service pattern, the tunnel route is not used for Brighton Line trains. Also south of this station, there is a bellmouth where the northbound track of the Brighton Line curves northwest onto Fulton Street. The bellmouth marks the location where the westbound track of
2262-654: The Manhattan Bridge to Manhattan with a flying junction . B and D trains use the north side of the bridge via the Chrystie Street Connection to the IND Sixth Avenue Line . N and Q trains use the south side of the bridge to the BMT Broadway Line . Trains traveling through this interlocking are frequently delayed, since Brighton and Fourth Avenue trains have to cross over each other to use both
2349-720: The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 , Israel renamed streets called "UN Avenue" in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv to "Zionism Avenue". Some international causes célèbres can attract cities around the world to rename streets in solidarity; for example a number of streets with South African embassies were renamed honouring Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment. Street names can also be changed to avoid negative associations, like Malbone Street in Brooklyn , New York City , renamed Empire Boulevard after
2436-568: The address (though addresses in some parts of the world, notably most of Japan , make no reference to street names). Buildings are often given numbers along the street to further help identify them. Odonymy is the study of road names. Names are often given in a two-part form: an individual name known as the specific , and an indicator of the type of street, known as the generic . Examples are "Main Road", "Fleet Street" and "Park Avenue". The type of street stated, however, can sometimes be misleading:
2523-467: The turnstile bank is a token booth, a single street stair to the southwest corner of DeKalb Avenue and the Flatbush Avenue Extension built inside a store front, and two staircases that meet at their landings and an elevator that go up to the southeast corner outside a former Applebee's restaurant. The centers of the platforms have a crossover that connects them both. Both the crossover and
2610-453: The Brighton Line for B and Q trains, although they are different platforms and formerly different stations. This station has two entrances/exits, each with access to either the east or west side of Flatbush Avenue. The staffed exit is near the south end and has two staircases and one elevator from each platform that go up to a waiting area above the platforms and tracks that contains two restrooms open from 5:00 a.m. to midnight. Outside of
2697-418: The Brighton Line. The DeKalb Avenue station was also built with provisions for a possible track connection to Nevins Street station. The station has a shortened mezzanine because room was needed for a proposed Lafayette Avenue line. The subway connection was never built. North of this station, near the Manhattan Bridge , there is a provision for a never-built loop back to southern Brooklyn without crossing
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2784-683: The Broadway and Sixth Avenue Lines. R trains and late night N trains continue on the middle tracks north along the BMT Fourth Avenue Line into the Montague Street Tunnel towards the BMT Broadway Line. South of the station, the bypass tracks become the express tracks on the Fourth Avenue Line. The four remaining tracks become six tracks at a flying junction . Trains headed south on the tunnel local tracks or outer tracks proceed to
2871-613: The DeKalb Avenue station with the Fourth Avenue Line and providing direct service between the existing Brighton Line and Midtown Manhattan . Afterward, the DeKalb Avenue station was referred to as "the heart of the BMT", as it is a major transfer point between BMT services with lines splitting north and south of the station. In 1922, the New York State Transit Commission directed its engineers to prepare plans for lengthening
2958-689: The Dual Contracts, an extension of the Brighton Line was approved. The extension was to run under St. Felix Street in Downtown Brooklyn, splitting off the Fourth Avenue Line south of the DeKalb Avenue station. It would then run under Flatbush Avenue south of Atlantic Avenue , sharing a tunnel with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s Eastern Parkway Line . The Brighton Line extension opened on August 1, 1920, serving
3045-526: The Fourth Avenue Line local tracks and the next pair hosted the Brighton Line. The middle tracks, which bypassed the station, hosted the Fourth Avenue express tracks. A group of level crossovers at the northern end of the station allowed all tracks access to both sides of the Manhattan Bridge and to the Montague Street Tunnel . The Fourth Avenue local tracks led straight onto the Manhattan Bridge west of
3132-449: The Fourth Avenue Line. It estimated the project would cost $ 633,000 (equivalent to $ 10,998,000 in 2023). The New York City Board of Estimate appropriated $ 362,841 for the lengthening of the platforms at DeKalb Avenue and five other stations in January 1926 and awarded the contract to Charles Meads & Company early the next month. As part of the project, the original signal tower at
3219-511: The Fulton Mall area. The area is New York City's third-largest commercial center after Herald Square and a stretch of Madison Avenue . The mall has attracted major investments from prominent Brooklyn retail real estate developers such as Stanley Chera , Albert Laboz , Joseph Jemal, Raymond M. Chera, and Eli Gindi . Fulton Mall includes major retailers such as Macy's , H&M , Gap , GameStop , Foot Locker , Modell's Sporting Goods , and Finish Line . The Fulton Mall Improvement Association
3306-541: The Manhattan Bridge and the Montague Street Tunnel (there would still be two bypass tracks for Fourth Avenue express trains using the bridge). In November 1914, the New York Public Service Commission began requesting bids for the installation of station finishes at the DeKalb Avenue station. The commission also requested bids for the addition of crossovers, allowing trains from the tunnel or
3393-524: The New York City Transit Authority sent a recommendation to the Board of Estimate for the approval of a $ 13,152,831 contract to eliminate the bottleneck. The elimination of the bottleneck was the first step in a larger plan to improve transit service between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Citizens Budget Commission recommended that the appropriation be canceled, but three other civic groups opposed
3480-540: The United States were named with variations of Martin Luther King Jr. , in the years after his 1968 assassination . Conversely, renaming can be a way to eliminate a name that proves too controversial. For example, Hamburg Avenue in Brooklyn, New York became Wilson Avenue after the United States entered World War I against Germany (see below). In Riverside , California, a short, one-way street named Wong Way
3567-482: The United States, most streets are named after numbers, landscapes, trees (a combination of trees and landscapes such as "Oakhill" is used often in residential areas), or the surname of an important individual (in some instances, it is just a commonly held surname such as Smith). Some streets, such as Elm Street in East Machias, Maine , have been renamed due to features changing. Elm Street's new name, Jacksonville Road,
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3654-429: The bank branch followed several months of negotiations. The bank had wanted to open a corridor from the station directly into its building, but this was not possible because of the presence of various underground conduits, pipes, and emergency exits, so the bank decided instead to rent space in the station. The station has been reconfigured a number of times. Originally, the extreme outside tracks in each direction hosted
3741-418: The bridge to stop at DeKalb Avenue. The Public Service Commission awarded the contract for the modifications to Samuel Beskin. To accommodate these crossovers, contractors had to cut into partition walls that had already been built. The DeKalb Avenue station opened on June 22, 1915, as part of an extension of the subway to Coney Island , which included the Fourth Avenue Line north of 59th Street as well as
3828-461: The building. The Offerman Building on Fulton Mall was built in 1893 by Henry Offerman , a businessman in the sugar industry. It was designed in the Romanesque Revival architectural style and originally hosted retail on the ground floor. The Offerman Building was designated a New York City Historic Landmark in 2005, and by 2017 had been converted into a 121-unit residential complex. Across
3915-554: The business community migrated to Midtown Manhattan , the slower tunnel route via Lower Manhattan became less popular. When the Chrystie Street Connection opened in 1967, the station became a transfer point for trains to and from the IND Sixth Avenue Line. After the 1961 reconstruction, some adjustments were made to the station. The original platform extensions were closed and replaced by straight extensions to
4002-696: The city plan for Washington, D.C. , north–south streets were numbered away from the United States Capitol in both directions, while east–west streets were lettered away from the Capitol in both directions and diagonal streets were named after various States of the Union. As the city grew, east–west streets past W Street were given two-syllable names in alphabetical order, then three-syllable names in alphabetical order, and finally names relating to flowers and shrubs in alphabetical order. Even in communities not laid out on
4089-653: The city's debt was settled. Groundbreaking for the first section of the subway, between DeKalb Avenue and 43rd Street (ending at 36th Street ), took place on November 13, 1909, at DeKalb Avenue and Flatbush Avenue , after the plans and surveys for the line were completed. The Fourth Avenue Line was assigned to the BRT (after 1923, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation or BMT ) in the Dual Contracts , adopted on March 4, 1913. William Bradley built
4176-486: The construction of the Fourth Avenue Line , a subway line running under Fourth Avenue , in early 1908. The line would run over the Manhattan Bridge to Manhattan at its northern end. Contracts for the Fourth Avenue Line were awarded on May 22, 1908, for the section between 43rd Street and the Manhattan Bridge, but the Board of Estimate did not approve them until October 29, 1909, when a taxpayer's lawsuit regarding
4263-401: The county adopted a uniform addressing and street-naming system, which the county did in 1932. In 1906, Cleveland, Ohio renamed streets to a numbered system. For an example Erie Street became East 9th Street, Bond Street became East 6th Street, and so forth. In Cleveland and its suburbs, all north–south streets are numbered from Cleveland's Public Square and east–west streets are numbered from
4350-579: The deadly Malbone Street Wreck ; Cadieux Street in Montreal renamed De Bullion because the original name became infamous by the former presence of many bordellos; and several streets in the German Village area of Columbus, Ohio which were renamed with more "American" sounding names around World War I due to popular anti-German sentiments. Similarly, Hamburg Avenue in Brooklyn was renamed Wilson Avenue during World War I. Street names also can change due to
4437-453: The direction in which the street in question runs. However, addresses in Manhattan have no obvious relationship to cross streets or avenues, although various tables and formulas are often found on maps and travel guides to assist in finding addresses. Examples of grid systems : In languages that have grammatical cases , the specific part of a road name is typically in the possessive or genitive case , meaning "the road of [Name]". Where
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#17328546166374524-427: The east side, outside Long Island University Brooklyn , and the other to the former Albee Square on the west side, outside the City Point development. Both fare control areas feature a 2005 artwork called DeKalb Improvisation by Stephen Johnson. It consists of a large mural in the main fare control area and several smaller ones in the secondary one. North of the station, the outer and bypass tracks head towards
4611-411: The elimination of the funding. During the reconstruction of the junction that started in 1956 and was completed by April 1961, the Brighton Line tracks were connected to the DeKalb Avenue station's outermost tracks. A diamond crossover north of the station had caused frequent bottlenecks, but was removed during the realignment and replaced with two flying junctions . All switches immediately north of
4698-720: The enacting of the Charter of the French Language continues to press English-majority communities to further gallicise ( francize ) their street names (for example, what was once "Lakeshore Road" was changed to " Chemin Lakeshore" in the 1970s, with the Office québécois de la langue française pressuring a further change to " Chemin du Bord-du-Lac ", completely calquing the English name into French). Sometimes, when communities are consolidated,
4785-480: The end of the platform was demolished to make way for the platform extension, and a new signal tower was built to control traffic on the Manhattan Bridge and Montague Street Tunnel. The platform extension at DeKalb Avenue opened on August 1, 1927. The Dime Savings Bank , which had its headquarters at 9 DeKalb Avenue just above the station, opened a branch on the station's mezzanine level in August 1956. The opening of
4872-573: The entire Sea Beach Line . The station's opening was marked with a competition between two trains heading from Chambers Street station in Manhattan to the Coney Island station, one heading via the West End Line and the other via the Sea Beach Line; the latter got to Coney Island first. As a local station, the DeKalb Avenue station was originally 435 feet (133 m) long. Also as part of
4959-403: The issue is more political can be "co-naming", when the old name is fully retained but the street is also given a second subsidiary name, which may be indicated by a smaller sign underneath the 'main' name. (See section below on " Multiple names for a single street ".) DeKalb Avenue station (BMT lines) [REDACTED] The DeKalb Avenue station is an interchange station on
5046-644: The major street in the middle of a shopping area in the United States and the United Kingdom , respectively. The most common street name in the US is "2nd" or "Second". Streets are normally named, and properties on them numbered, by decision of the local authority , which may adopt a detailed policy. For instance the city of Leeds , UK, provides that: The etymology of a street name is sometimes very obvious, but at other times it might be obscure or even forgotten. In
5133-463: The new name, the overturning of a respected traditional name, or confusion from the altering of a familiar name useful in navigation. A proposal in 2005 to rename 16th Street, N.W. , in Washington, D.C., "Ronald Reagan Boulevard" exemplified all three. Issues of familiarity and confusion can be addressed by the street sign showing the current name and, in smaller writing, the old name. One compromise when
5220-444: The north in 1960. The abandoned portions can be seen from the open platforms and trains. In the mid-1960s, the station platforms were extended northward at least 150 feet (46 m) to accommodate for a 600 feet (180 m) train. It also added new '60s modern look tiling. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced in late 1978 that it would modernize the DeKalb Avenue station. The improvements included new finishes on
5307-439: The north is Jay Street–MetroTech for Montague Street Tunnel R and late night N trains, Canal Street for N and Q trains using the southern tracks of the Manhattan Bridge, and Grand Street for B and D trains using the northern tracks of the Manhattan Bridge. The next station to the south is Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center on the Fourth Avenue Line for D, N, and R trains and Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center on
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#17328546166375394-429: The northernmost point in Cuyahoga County , which is in the City of Euclid . Bedford , Berea , and Chagrin Falls do not adhere to the grid rules of Cleveland. After World War I , Cleveland renamed a numbered street to Liberty Boulevard, to commemorate Cleveland area soldiers who had been killed in the Great War; in 1981, this street was renamed to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. In the New York City borough of Queens ,
5481-412: The original Fulton Street survives as Old Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo , and as Cadman Plaza West in Downtown Brooklyn. The segment of Fulton Street that traveled past Borough Hall has been turned into a pedestrian esplanade. The initial segment of Fulton Street as it exists today is the Fulton Mall between Adams Street and Flatbush Avenue . East of Flatbush Avenue, Fulton Street becomes
5568-410: The original station tiles and mosaics. The latest major overhaul was in 2004–2006. The station was repaired and became an ADA-accessible station. The MTA repaired the staircases, retiled the walls, added new tiles to the floors, upgraded the station's lights and public address system, installed ADA yellow safety treads along the platform edge and replaced the trackbeds for all trains entering or bypassing
5655-480: The platforms at 23 stations on the BMT's lines to accommodate eight-car trains. As part of the project, platforms would be lengthened to 530 feet (160 m). Though the Transit Commission ordered the BMT to lengthen these platforms in September 1923, no further progress was made until February 16, 1925, when the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) commissioned its engineers to examine platform-lengthening plans for DeKalb Avenue and eleven other stations along
5742-431: The portion of the line from the intersection of Flatbush Avenue Extension and Willoughby Street to the intersection of Fulton Street and Ashland Place, including the DeKalb Avenue station. The DeKalb Avenue station was originally intended only as a local station on the Fourth Avenue Line. After the Montague Street Tunnel was approved, the planned station was changed to an express station that could serve trains from both
5829-504: The project consists of informational, directional and street signage. Pomeroy's renovation was completed in 1984 for $ 24 million and received an Albert S. Bard Award from the City Club of New York . Nonetheless, the mall initially failed to attract tenants. In 2024, the city began renovating Fulton Mall again for $ 8 million, adding benches and trees. Subway stations at Jay Street–MetroTech , DeKalb Avenue , Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets , Nevins Street , and Hoyt Street and bus lines service
5916-406: The proposed Ashland Place Connection, which would have connected to the now-demolished BMT Fulton Street El , would have merged with the Brighton Line. The eastbound track of the Ashland Place Connection was not built. The track would have diverged from the southbound Brighton Line between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, then curved east under Lafayette Avenue, to avoid an at-grade junction with
6003-544: The road between Oxford and Banbury changes name five times from the Banbury Road to the Oxford Road and back again as it passes through villages. Some streets are named after the areas that the street connects. For example, Clarcona Ocoee Road links the communities of Clarcona and Ocoee in Orlando, Florida , and Jindivick–Neerim South Road links the towns of Jindivick and Neerim South in Victoria , Australia. Some roads are named after their general direction, such as " Great North Road ". Bypasses are often named after
6090-487: The specific is an adjective (as in "High Street"), however, it is inflected to match the generic. Street names are usually renamed after political revolutions and regime changes for ideological reasons. In postsocialist Romania, after 1989, the percentage of street renaming ranged from 6% in Bucharest , and 8% in Sibiu , to 26% in Timișoara . Street names can be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons. Sometimes streets are renamed to reflect
6177-468: The staffed exit were part of a wide mezzanine area, but most of the mezzanine was closed off and converted to crew rooms. The other entrance/exit is at the station's extreme north end and is unstaffed. An up-only escalator and long staircase from each platform goes up to a mezzanine above the tracks. Two pairs of exit-only turnstiles and one set of four turnstiles provide entrance/exit from the system. This entrance has two street stairs: one to Fleet Street on
6264-517: The station were eliminated. The junction towards the Manhattan Bridge was rebuilt. To make room for a new flying junction, the Myrtle Avenue station was closed. That station's northbound platform remains visible from passing trains, but the southbound platform was demolished to accommodate the new flying junction that replaced the diamond crossover. Platforms were also doubled in length to accommodate ten-car trains of 60-foot-long (18 m) cars. It
6351-500: The station, while the Brighton line tracks led straight to the Montague Street Tunnel, so the crossovers allowed trains from both lines to switch between the bridge and the tunnel. The city government took over the BMT's operations on June 1, 1940. By then, the original track layout caused many train delays on the Fourth Avenue and Brighton lines. In 1952, the junction was earmarked for "top priority" reconstruction. On November 30, 1955,
6438-587: The station, while the four outer tracks are used by Brighton Line and Fourth Avenue local trains. The track configuration has been arranged several times. The current configuration dates from a 1956–1961 reconstruction project to straighten the platforms and eliminate a level junction north of the station, which had caused a switching bottleneck. Other plans, such as connections to the BMT Fulton Street Line and IRT Eastern Parkway Line , were considered at times. The New York City Board of Estimate approved
6525-556: The station. It also installed elevators on both platforms, as well as elevators to the street level. This underground station has six tracks with island platforms between the two outer pairs of tracks, while the two center tracks bypass the station. B trains stop here on weekdays only except nights, Q and R trains stop here at all times, and D and N trains stop here during nights as well as northbound on weekdays after 6:45 p.m. The platform columns are painted red on their lower halves and cream on their upper halves. The next station to
6612-451: The stonecutters used to have their shops; and Cannery Row in Monterey, California. Some streets are named for landmarks that were in the street, or nearby, when it was built. Such names are often retained after the landmark disappears. Barcelona's La Rambla is officially a series of streets. The Rambla de Canaletes is named after a fountain that still stands, but the Rambla dels Estudis
6699-519: The street is another designated city landmark, the A. I. Namm & Son Department Store . Street name A street name is an identifying name given to a street or road . In toponymic terminology, names of streets and roads are referred to as odonyms or hodonyms (from Ancient Greek ὁδός hodós 'road', and ὄνυμα ónuma 'name', i.e., the Doric and Aeolic form of ὄνομα ónoma 'name'). The street name usually forms part of
6786-402: The street. The center of the mall is an open public space known as Albee Square . Fulton Street's first period of great vigor occurred before the era of enclosed shopping malls, the era when huge department stores like Abraham & Straus , Frederick Loeser & Co. and A. I. Namm & Son reigned on the street. The current era dates from the 1970s, when through the persistent efforts of
6873-609: The streets are renamed according to a uniform system. For example, when Georgetown became part of Washington, D.C., the streets in Georgetown were renamed as an extension of Washington's street-naming convention. Also, when leaders of Arlington County, Virginia, asked the United States Post Office Department to place the entire county in the "Arlington, Virginia" postal area, the Post Office refused to do so until
6960-487: The street’s merchants, the city agreed to a revitalization program through which it would narrow the roadway, widen the sidewalk, and create, with the exception of buses, a traffic-free shopping area. Architect Lee Harris Pomeroy redesigned the mall in the early 1980s: he designed street furniture and equipment for the project including large, free-standing canopies, vendors’ kiosks, directory and telephone kiosks, and high mast lighting. The graphics program he also designed for
7047-514: The town they route traffic around, for example the Newbury bypass . Some streets are named after famous or distinguished individuals, sometimes people directly associated with the street, usually after their deaths. Bucharest's Şoseaua Kiseleff was named after the Russian reformer Pavel Kiselyov who had the road built while Russian troops were occupying the city in the 1830s; its Strada Dr. Iuliu Barasch
7134-489: The walls and floors; acoustical, signage, and lighting improvements; replacement of old mechanical equipment; and new handrails. In spite of the renovation, the MTA listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system in 1981. In the early 2000s, architect Lee Harris Pomeroy designed a renovation of the DeKalb Avenue station. The plans included adding elevators for ADA accessibility , as well as restoring
7221-538: Was a reversion to Catalan names from decades earlier, before the beginning of the Franco dictatorship in 1939. In a similar way, English street names were changed to French in Quebec during the 1970s, after French was declared the sole language for outdoor signage. This was met with hurt and anger by many of the province's Anglophones , who wished to retain their traditional placenames. The government body responsible for overseeing
7308-474: Was chosen because it leads to the village of Jacksonville. Its former name was chosen because of elm trees; it was renamed when all of the trees along the street succumbed to Dutch elm disease . The Shambles , derived from the Anglo-Saxon term fleshammels ("meat shelves" in butchers' stalls), is a historical street name which still exists in various cities and towns around England . The best-known example
7395-518: Was estimated that the reconstruction of the junction increased the junction's train capacity by 25%. The Chrystie Street Connection project was also tied to this improvement, as it resulted in more trains using the bridge, as well as connecting trains to the Independent Subway System (IND)'s Sixth Avenue Line (and thus, to IND lines to the Bronx and Queens ). Over the years, as more of
7482-453: Was originally Abraham & Straus 's flagship store. The building was designed in Art Deco style by Starrett & Van Vleck and built in 1933. It was formerly the showroom for the W.C. Vosburgh Mfg. Co. As of 2017, the building is undergoing a $ 194 million renovation by Tishman Speyer . Its new portion will have 10 floors dedicated to Class A office space. Macy's is also renovating its part of
7569-759: Was renamed to a more respectful Wong Street, as well as spelled out in Chinese characters to honor the historical Chinatown that once occupied the area. In a case of a street named after a living person becoming controversial, Lech Wałęsa Street in San Francisco was renamed to Dr. Tom Waddell Place in 2014 after Wałęsa made a public remark against gay people holding major public office. There are public benefits to having easily understood systems of orderly street names, such as in sequences: A 1950 American Planning Association report supports use of these systems. Groups of streets in one area are sometimes named using
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