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Bay Parkway station (BMT Sea Beach Line)

New York City BMT Sea Beach Line subway station

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ2384549 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bay Parkway station (formerly known as the 22nd Avenue station) is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway, located in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn at the intersection of Bay Parkway and West Seventh Street. It is served by the N train at all times. During rush hours, several W trains also serve this station.

History

This station opened on June 22, 1915, along with the rest of the Sea Beach Line.

As of 2012, all three tracks have been replaced with a new track bed and new track panels. From January 18, 2016, to May 22, 2017, the Manhattan-bound platform at this station was closed for renovations and a temporary wooden platform was placed over the Coney Island-bound express track for the Manhattan-bound service. The Coney Island-bound platform was closed from July 31, 2017 to July 1, 2019. During this time, all southbound trains used the northbound express track and the temporary platform, with short-turn W trains terminating here instead of their normal terminus at Gravesend–86th Street.

Station layout

This open-cut station has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are not normally used.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bay Parkway station (BMT Sea Beach Line)” as new York City BMT Sea Beach Line subway station. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915, 2012, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Parkway, station and Beach can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as new York City BMT Sea Beach Line subway station. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2384549. Authority coordinates are 40.613, -73.982. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1915, 2012, 2016 and 2017.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bay Parkway station (BMT Sea Beach Line)”, its source revision and the description used here.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bay Parkway station (BMT Sea Beach Line)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.