Bergen Street (2,3) - The SubwayNut

Bergen Street is an IRT local stop with two side platforms that are completely isolated from each other with fare control directly towards the middle of the platforms and are both quite narrow. The tracks walls that face the two side platforms are completely tiled over because of the maze of tracks that exist between the two completely isolated station areas for trains in each direction, because both the IRT Express trains are running there, along with the Brighton Line, beneath Flatbush Avenue.

Fare control consists of turnstiles that are fully staffed on the Manhattan-bound side, and unstaffed on the Flatbush/New Lots-bound side. When I visited in 2009 there was a Customer Assistant booth that is staffed Monday-Friday only from 6am-9pm. There are still a couple of High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles on that platform that were designed to be used during other times. The area outside of fare control on each platform is relatively wide with two staircases from the Flatbush/New Lots bound side to the SW corner of Bergen St & Flatbush Avenue, and a short passageway to the SE corner.

The Manhattan-bound platform contains a staircase up to the SW corner of Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue, that has a near switchback at an intermediate landing to the triangle formed by Bergen Street, Flatbush Avenue, and Sixth Avenue, and another staircase across to the SE corner of Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue, there used to be a third streetstair up to the NE corner of Bergen Street and Sixth Avenue, that included an entrance directly into 477 Bergen Street, this entrance has Steel Grading covering it.

The station has the dual-contracts era Squire Vickers ceramic tiling for a trim line that has an emphasis on green, with Bs at regular intervals that come out from that trim line. Blue is the background color used for the Bs, as well as the name tablets that have white text with a multi-layered green boarder. At the extreme ends of each platform is a very small area that has the 1960s tiling, with Bergen Street written on quite large, cinderblock looking tiles. Their only columns, I-beam columns painted green are in the middle of the platform at the fare control area. w
Photos 1-11: June 29, 2009; 12-14: February 20, 2004

A street level entrance to Bergen Street, and the Flatbush Avenue & New Lots Avenue only platform.

Looking down the short passageway that leads underground from the SE corner of Bergen Street & Flatbush Avenue to the fare control area.

The two exit staircases up to the street, have the same signs above them, Bergen St & Flatbush Av, SW corner.

The three turnstiles for the Flatbush Avenue & New Lots Avenue Only platform at Bergen Street.

Looking back to the fare control equipment that is directly on the Flatbush/New Lots-bound platform. There a pair of High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles, a pair of High Exit Turnstiles and a small (3) bank of turnstiles.

Looking down the Flatbush/New Lots-bound platform at Bergen Street, with the tiled platform wall visible and the headlights of an incoming train.

Looking back towards the fare control area at Bergen Street, where the only columns on the Flatbush/New Lots Platform are.

Another view down the long and empty Flatbush/New Lots side platform at Bergen Street.

A close up of one of the numerous Bs the in station trim line at Bergen Street

A Bergen Street name tablet with its white text on a blue background with a green boarder design.

Approaching the extreme western end of the Flatbush/New Lots-bound platform, where the small section that has 1950s era block letter tiling, and long and narrow darker-grey tiled walls at Bergen Street.

A close up of a B in Bergen Street's station trim

The blur of a R142 2 train leaving Bergen Street

The empty New Lots/Flatbush-bound platform at Bergen Street