Ocean Parkway (BMT Brighton Line)

Ocean Parkway is an express station on the New York City Subway's BMT Brighton Line. Located at Brighton Beach Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, it is served by the Q train at all times.Station layoutThis elevated station has two island platforms and four tracks with the center express tracks not normally used. It is built on a decorated masonry viaduct to keep with Ocean Parkway's status as a city parkway. Both platforms have red canopies with black frames and support columns along their entire length except for a section at their east (railroad north) end.The 1996 artwork here is called Coney Island Reliefs by Deborah Masters. It was installed in 2009 and consists of 128 reliefs on the station's concrete structure.Between this station and Brighton Beach, two layup tracks begin at bumper blocks adjacent to the platforms and run between the local and express tracks, making this section the only six-track elevated structure in the subway system. The two tracks merge with either adjacent track on approach to Brighton Beach.ExitsThis station has two entrances/exits, both of which are elevated station houses beneath the tracks and platforms. The full-time one is at the east end. A single staircase from each platform goes down to a waiting area/crossunder, where a turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to each eastern corner of Brighton Beach Avenue and Ocean Parkway. The other station house at the west end also has one staircase from each platform, a waiting area/crossunder, and two staircases facing in opposite directions and going down to the northwest corner of Brighton Beach Avenue and Ocean Parkway. However, it is un-staffed, containing two High Entry/Exit Turnstiles.