Union Street station
The Union Street station was a station on the demolished section of the BMT Fifth Avenue Line in Brooklyn, New York City. Served by trains of the BMT Culver Line and BMT Fifth Avenue Line, it had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms.- Type: Historic site
- Description: former BMT Fifth Avenue Line subway station
- Also known as: “Union Street”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prospect Park and Park Slope Playground.
Prospect Park
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Brooklyn Museum
Museum
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Brooklyn Museum is situated 1 mile southeast of Union Street station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Park Slope and Gowanus.
Park Slope
Neighborhood
Photo: GK tramrunner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, within an area known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.
Gowanus
Neighborhood
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gowanus is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 6.
Prospect Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at Grand Army Plaza – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.
Union Street station
- Categories: metro station, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.67643° or 40° 40′ 35″ northLongitude
-73.98045° or 73° 58′ 50″ westInception
June 22nd, 1889Open location code
87G8M2G9+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 3039734896OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesWikidata ID
Q14707537
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In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“Union Street station” goes by many names.
- French: “Union Street”
- Japanese: “ユニオン・ストリート駅”
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