Where Four Subway Lines Terminate

Love Coney Island-Stillwell Ave's enormous trainshed! To put things into perspective, that trainshed is around 80,000 square feet! And yes, the roof is covered in solar panels! The roof consists of 2,730 thin-film modules from Schott AG. It has a nominal capacity of about 210 kWp (meaning kilowatts peak) which equates to an annual output of 250,000 kWh (kilowatt-hour). The solar panels provide about 15 percent of the station's power. Due to the station's location near the beach, the solar panels needed to meet stringent hurricane standards. Thus, the panels for the station were rigorously tested in a laboratory in York, PA. This makes Stillwell Avenue the first solar-powered subway station in the NYC Subway! Interesting facts about Coney Island: Despite the name, Coney Island is currently a peninsula, and it turned from a barrier island into a peninsula as a result of a large section of the Coney Island Creek filled in during the 1920s and 1930s. Stillwell Avenue was named after settler Nicholas Stillwell (who lived from 1603 to 1671), who had a farm in the area and became the progenitor of an influential Brooklyn family by the same name. Plans for Stillwell Avenue began in October 1926. The Lenape once called the area Narrioch. This name has been attributed the meaning of "land without shadows" or "always in light" describing how its south facing beaches always remained in sunlight. A second meaning attributed to Narrioch is "point" or "corner of land".

stillwell is the largest elevated subway terminal in the world btw

One of those places where the history of the lirr and nyc subway become one, like the rockaway branch

"RTO" = "Rapid Transit Operations" It's the motormen-and-conductors part of the subways, while the booth clerks and the sweepers are the "Station" department

Luna Park honors the name of the original 1903 park which operated until 1944 while the current park opened in 2010! The iconic Wonder Wheel next door opened in 1920 and is an eccentric Ferris wheel, meaning some of the Wonder Wheel's cabins are not fixed directly to the rim of the wheel, but instead slide along winding sets of rails between the hub and the rim like a roller coaster! This inspired the Pixar Pal-A-Round at Disney California Adventure. Here's some Nathan's history: Nathan's began as a nickel hot dog stand in 1916 and bears the name of its co-founder Nathan Handwerker who started the business with his wife, Ida Handwerker. Ida created the hot dog recipe they used, and Ida's grandmother created the secret spice recipe. Because Nathan's Famous all-beef hot dogs lacked rabbinic supervision and the meat wasn't kosher, Handwerker coined the term "kosher style" because the hot dogs were not made from pork or horse meat. Handwerker was a Jewish-Polish immigrant who arrived in NYC in 1912 and soon found work at the Coney Island restaurant Feltman's German Gardens. He was encouraged by singing waiters Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to go into business in competition with Feltman's. Nathan and Ida spent their life savings of $300 to begin the business!

As a subway buff, I wish to inform you that the West End Line tracks of the D train you announced as Tracks 1 and 2 are literally Tracks 7 and 8. Tracks 1 and 2 are on the opposite side of the train station where the N Sea Beach trains terminate. I lived in Coney Island more than 46 years ago, but I was born in Brooklyn 70 years ago. I am sorry I had to mention a correction like another railroad buff, but your show and tour were helpful indeed.

grew up in Coney Island so I used this station daily for years. the station this replaced was extremely old and dingy, so this modern station was very welcome when it opened. there was also a time during construction that only 1 line ran out of here, the W / D

What a legendary station!! I had no clue such a great functional piece of architecture existed on the NY subway. It looks a lot like a German main Hauptbahnhof. Thanks for the tour!

RTO - rapid transit operations. Beyond that door couple offices then the locker rooms and a big crew area and dispatcher

NYCT F line Train Operator here... I love how you kept saying how nice Stillwell Terminal looks even though it's covered in 20 years of bird guano...😂 In 2004 it was beautiful, 2024 not so much... Transit needs to give it a thorough cleaning...

A few things: 1:16 Through movement is also used if there is a need to reroute trains onto other lines. If there is a Q coming into the station, for example, from the Brighton Line, but there happens to be an immediate incident preventing the Q from going back up the Brighton Line, it can continue through the station with a new train crew up the N/Sea Beach Line, or if the incident clears up, a rerouted Q via Sea Beach can go back to its normal route when it reaches the terminal. 2:02 RTO=Rapid Transit Operations. Train Crews, supervision, and line management are there. 3:28 Coney Island is more common when it comes to the riding public, but Stillwell Avenue is used mostly internally. Hope this helps!

Comparing the platforms from the 90s to now, with all the photos I've seen, it was a major improvement.The (B) and (W) once terminated there via West End and the (D) used to be on Brighton.

Hello from Lima - Peru 🇵🇪. New subscriber here, I enjoy your videos a lot, great to learch how the NY subway system works and how it looks. Wish we had that here in Peru. Regards

Coney Island is the neighborhood i grew up in theyve actually added a couple of bus lines the B82 and the B68 which used to terminate on West 5 st down closer to the Aquarium. So all we had was the B36 which ran on Surf ave, the B64 which used to terminate across the street from the station on Stillwell then would use the bus loop to turn around and the B74 whichu caught underneath the station like u saw

Well done. The Manhattan Beach RR was part of the LIRR. It ran next to the Brighton Line from Avenue H to Sheepshead Bay. You can still see remnants of the Neck Road Station. Stillwell Avenue also boasted a trolley ramp.

There's a great pizza shop right next to that station on Stillwell, best Sicilian slices anywhere.

So strange to see that Conyne Eylandt (Konijnen Eiland in modern Dutch) of the New Netherlands Colony was butchered by (the) English into Coney Island instead of translating it into Rabbit Island. Besides that, nice to see a metro terminus station with so much subway lines.

My brother and his friends would ride the NYC subways in the 1950s as their recreation. They were all (and still are) huge railfans. Back then, it only cost $0.05 (that's right FIVE CENTS) to ride 500 miles of track! I still have tokens from the 1960s where one was 10 cents and the other 15 cents.

Really Enjoying Your Channel. The Station Definitely Looked Like A Train Station.Please Do A 65 Year Old Man A Favor, Go Back In The Summer. I Have Been To NY Several Times, But Never To Coney Island Or The Atlantic Beach. Keep Up The Good Work. Thanks From San Diego.🌴

My favorite station in South Brooklyn! Great video