Bay Ridge Avenue

Bay Ridge Avenue is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Bay Ridge Avenue and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It is served by the R train at all times.Station layoutThis underground station, which opened on January 15, 1916, has two tracks and two side platforms. The station's mezzanine is above the platforms with two staircases leading to each. Only the 95th Street-bound platform has columns, except for the extreme ends of the platform, which have no columns. All of the columns are painted blue and are standard I-beams. All columns have "Bay Ridge Av" signs on them.There is space for an additional trackway under the northbound platform. The station is built on the west side of Fourth Avenue due to plans for a possible extension of the express tracks south of 59th Street. As a result of the possibility of the extension of the express tracks, there is space underneath the northbound platform for an additional trackway at this station for the Bay Ridge-bound express track. This also can be found at 77th Street. Further evidence of the provisions for tracks on the east side of Fourth Avenue can be seen north of this station, where the subway is carried in the lower deck of a bridge (Fourth Avenue) over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch cut. On this cut it can be seen that the bridge has four trackways of which only the western two are used. The tunnel leading up to each side of the bridge was built for two tracks only.