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Flatlands / Vanderveer Park / Nostrand Avenue Station

The Brooklyn IRT line (2 and 5 trains) terminates at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Nostrand Avenue, just north of the freight rail tracks. Triangle Junction, a new retail building housing a Target store was built just to the south of the IRT station betweeen Avenue H, Flatbush and Nostrand. The rear part of the parking garage for the building extends over the freight tracks. Presumably, a new station would be built under the parking garage or (more likely) to the west on the site of a fresh produce market that would be seized with eminent domain. A pedestrian tunnel could then connect the two stations.

During the Manhattan Beach Railroad days the Flatlands station sat somewhere east of Nostrand Avenue - perhaps where Triangle Junction is now. The name was changed to Vanderveer Park in 1899 and it lasted until passenger service terminated in 1924.

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Triangle Junction parking garage built over tracks

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Northeastern Produce - 2206 Nostrand Avenue

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Tracks behind Northeastern Produce

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Triangle Junction parking garage

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Tracks running under Triangle Junction parking garage

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Tracks running under Nostrand Avenue bridge

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Flatbush Avenue station

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Old-school Nostrand Avenue retail

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The terminator of the IRT rail line

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Flatbush Ave IRT station wall plaque

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Triangle Junction parking garage

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Site of old Flatlands / Vanderveer Park Station?

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Brooklyn College bell tower

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Nostrand Ave Bridge west side

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Triangle Junction viewed from the southeast

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Philip Howard Apartments

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Philip Howard Apartments

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Deck over tracks east of Flatbush Ave.

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Deck over tracks east of Flatbush Ave.

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Apartments along Avenue H

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Apartments along Avenue H

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Older homes off Avenue H

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Old house and apartment building off Avenue H

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Matching brown brick houses and apartment buildings off Avenue H

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Tracks emerging from decks on Nostrand and Flatbush Avenues

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Brooklyn Avenue bridge over tracks

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Single-family homes on Brooklyn Avenue

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Tracks headed northeast past Brooklyn Avenue

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Track access at Brooklyn Avenue

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Old power pole foundation at Brooklyn Avenue?

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Landscaping on Brooklyn Avenue

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Landscaping on Avenue H

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Matching multicolored brick homes on Avenue H

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Kevin Parker campaign sign

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