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62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station

New York City Subway station complex in Brooklyn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ131936715 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the open-cut BMT Sea Beach Line and the elevated BMT West End Line. It is located at New Utrecht Avenue and 62nd Street in Borough Park and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and is served by the D and N trains at all times. During rush hours, several W trains and one southbound R train also serve this station.

Prior to the rebuilding of the two current subway lines at this location during the 1910s, this location was known as Bath Junction. Until then, there was a track connection between the lines, primarily to enable Sea Beach trains to and from Coney Island to access West End Line trackage to reach the Brooklyn Bridge and the Park Row Terminal in Lower Manhattan. From 2016 to 2019, the complex underwent an extensive renovation.

History

Bath Junction

Bath Junction was located near the present site of the station. It took the name as a railroad junction of the New York & Sea Beach Railway (Sea Beach Line) with the Brooklyn, Bath Coney Island Railroad (West End Line). The NY&SB called the station at the junction Bath Junction, while the BB&CI called it Sea Beach Junction. Soon, however, they settled on the common name.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station” is new York City Subway station complex in Brooklyn. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through 62nd, Street and Utrecht, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, 62nd, Street and Utrecht is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “new York City Subway station complex in Brooklyn” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131936715. Authority coordinates are 40.626, -73.997. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2019.

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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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station primary sources, 62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station archive and 62nd research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station” 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.