Bergen Street (IND Crosstown)
 
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Bergen Street Station · Opened 3/20/1933Two levels, two tracks and two side platforms on each
level. The lower level is abandoned, and the express tracks from here
to Church Ave. are unused. The lower platform can be accessed via
sets of double stainless steel doors which, when open, reveal the
stairs to the lower level. The lower level has no tile on the wall,
just unpainted concrete and old lights. A look at the trackways on the
upper reveals evidence the ceiling of the lower level platform.
The upper, active level was recently renovated. The tile
here is unusual - the border has the lighter color. This border is a
very light green, and the center is an equally dark shade of green.
There is also dark green lower tile and splashes of light-green design
interspersed at intervals.
There is no crossover or crossunder, unusual for an IND
express station. But the express tracks' situation here is even more
"unusual" compared to other IND construction. North of this station
the local, upper-level, tracks communicate with the express,
lower-level, tracks by a crooked ramp. Since the beginnings of the IND
the trains headed for Jay Street crept down this ramp to the express
tracks. From Jay Street they crept up the ramp to the local
tracks. The short distance between the two stations was slow going and
not at all the way the IND should work. This, plus the combined
peculiarities of the terminating of the G Crosstown train at
Smith/9th, points to a primitive intent to leave the express tracks
fallow. All trains were destined to work only the local tracks.
Scenes from the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder were
filmed in the lower level here at Bergen Street. There is a long scene
with Tim Robbins' character riding a train of R10 cars, and then being
trapped in the (now-abandoned) lower level of Bergen Street station.
The director's notes on the DVD indicates that they used lower Bergen
St. for filming and added extensive IND stripe and station name tile
and advertising posters at time of filming.
Trains heading north from here can continue on the IND Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown line to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets, or onto the IND 6th & 8th Avenue lines at Jay Street-Borough Hall. The "F" line service will stop at Jay Street and then continue via 6th Avenue; no service has been regularly operated from the Crosstown line to the IND 8th Avenue line.
(image 98993) (210k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4282
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 27 / 703
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R32 (Budd, 1964) 3807
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 15 / 341
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R44 (St. Louis Car Co., 1971-73) 5318
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 12 / 393
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R44 (St. Louis Car Co., 1971-73) 5330
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 11 / 559
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R32 (Budd, 1964) 3806
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 8 / 286
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4308
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 15 / 361
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(image 98989) (186k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R46 (Pullman-Standard, 1974-75) 6147
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 16 / 382
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R32 (Budd, 1964) 3444
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 19 / 320
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4436
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 10 / 253
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R32 (Budd, 1964) 3886
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 10 / 333
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R32 (Budd, 1964) 3777
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 18 / 217
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R44 (St. Louis Car Co., 1971-73) 5328
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 17 / 458
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4437
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 15 / 350
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(image 98996) (200k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4283
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 18 / 361
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(image 98990) (193k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R46 (Pullman-Standard, 1974-75) 6202
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 12 / 446
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(image 98991) (208k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R46 (Pullman-Standard, 1974-75) 6148
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 4/4/2009
Notes: Short turn A turnback due to G.O.
Viewed (this week/total): 12 / 336
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(image 94564) (229k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: C
Car: R40M (St. Louis Car, 1969) 4547
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 12/27/2008
Notes: G.O. layup/turnback at Lower Bergen.
Viewed (this week/total): 8 / 758
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R44 (St. Louis Car Co., 1971-73) 5276
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 12/27/2008
Notes: G.O. layup/turnback.
Viewed (this week/total): 10 / 1016
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: C
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968) 4346
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 12/27/2008
Notes: G.O. layup/turnback at Lower Bergen.
Viewed (this week/total): 11 / 699
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(image 94626) (194k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Crosstown
Location: Bergen Street-Lower Level
Route: A
Car: R40M (St. Louis Car, 1969) 4500
Photo by: Robert Mencher
Date: 12/27/2008
Notes: G.O. layup/turnback.
Viewed (this week/total): 11 / 755
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