page_title: 59th Street station (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
section_title: Provisions for proposed extensions
hierarchical_section_title: 59th Street station (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) / Provisions for proposed extensions
caption_attribution_description: English: A 1912 schematic detailing plans to connect the BMT Fourth Avenue Line to the North and Main Lines of the Staten Island Railroad.
context_page_description: 59th Street is an express station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 59th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, it is served by the N and R trains at all times, as well as some W trains during rush hours.
  The 59th Street station was constructed as part of the Fourth Avenue Line, which was approved in 1905. Construction on the segment of the line that includes 59th Street started on March 15, 1913, and was completed in 1915. The station opened on June 22, 1915, as the southernmost station of the initial portion of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. The station's platforms were lengthened in 1926–1927, and again during the 1960s. The 59th Street station is also being renovated between 2018 and 2020, and elevators are being added to make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
context_section_description: Immediately south of the station, there are tunnel stub headings running straight from the local tracks. They run for about 150 feet (46 m) and would have been for a line to Staten Island via the Staten Island Tunnel under the Narrows, which was aborted by Mayor Hylan before it was completed. There is a "maintenance of way" shed that was built on the southbound trackway. The northbound trackway is unobstructed, albeit much darker. The northbound trackway ends on a brick wall, with evidence of a void space beyond. South of this station, the bridge over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch has four trackways, with the outer tracks occupying the two western ones. The tracks of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line are under the western half of Fourth Avenue at this point so that two additional tracks could be laid in the future if traffic warranted it.
  The original proposal planned a connection from a point between 65th and 67th Streets, just south of the station, running to Arrietta Street near the Tompkinsville station in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. A later plan called for a connection to St. George, Staten Island, near St. George Terminal. Construction for the latter started in 1923, but the project was canceled in 1925.
caption: The proposed Staten Island Tunnel would have branched off at 66th Street.
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