The Park Place station is a station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line of the New York City Subway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Served by the Franklin Avenue Shuttle at all times, it is the only solitary station in the subway system to be served solely by a shuttle service without any connections to non-shuttle services. It is also the only single-track station in the subway system that is not a terminal station.

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Park Place
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station entrance from Park Place
Station statistics
Address	Park Place & Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Crown Heights
Coordinates	40.674357°N 73.957858°W / 40.674357; -73.957858
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Franklin Avenue Line BMT Brighton Line (Until 1920)
Services	S  (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B45, B48, B49, B65
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Opened	June 19, 1899
Rebuilt	April 4, 1905; 119 years ago (1905-04-04) (elevated railway) October 18, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-10-18) (shuttle refurbishment)
Accessible	ADA-accessible
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Former/other names	Butler Street Sterling Place
Traffic
2023	348,208[2]  6.5%
Rank	409 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Franklin Avenue Terminus Franklin Avenue Botanic Garden toward Prospect Park
Non-revenue services and lines Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Dean Street demolished no service
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Franklin Avenue Bidirectional track to Botanic Garden
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Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

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The station is located at the point where the tracks of the original Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an open-cut right-of-way on its route to Brighton Beach and Coney Island.^[3][4] The Kings County Elevated Railway (KCER) had begun serving the line in 1896.^[5]

A station was established at this spot on June 19, 1899 to provide local residents access to KCER trains. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place.

During 1905–1906, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised elevated railway and embankment structure,^[3] and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point.

In April 1993, the New York State Legislature agreed to give the MTA $9.6 billion for capital improvements. Some of the funds would be used to renovate nearly one hundred New York City Subway stations,^[6][7] including Park Place.^[8] The station had deteriorated over the years as the New York City Transit Authority considered whether to abandon or rehabilitate the station and the line. Community support in the Bedford–Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities persuaded the city to rebuild the line. The station closed in 1998,^[9] was completely rebuilt, and reopened in 1999.^[10]

P Platform Level	Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Single track	← toward Prospect Park (Botanic Garden) → toward Franklin Avenue (Terminus) → →(Demolished: Dean Street)
G Street Level	Exit/ Entrance, station house Ramp from Prospect Place west of Franklin Avenue; service in both directions on single track

The rebuilt 1999 station consists of a single side platform and a single track serving trains traveling in both directions.^[11] The new, wider, station platform was built partly over the former southbound track. The large station house is built in a style reminiscent of station houses built in the World War I era on the BMT Brighton Line such as Parkside Avenue and a number of stations on the BMT Sea Beach Line.^[10]