Nostrand Avenue is a two-level express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn. It is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights.HistoryThe Nostrand Avenue station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the Independent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus at Jay Street–Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, to Rockaway Avenue. The new IND subway replaced the BMT Fulton Street El. The Nostrand Avenue El station, which was formerly above the current subway station, closed on May 31, 1940. In 1981, the MTA listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.In the early morning hours of February 17, 2005, transit workers found two trash bags on the tracks of this station. They contained the body parts of 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell, who was reported missing three days earlier, of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The case, considered one of the most gruesome in New York City history, remained under investigation and had since gone cold. In February 2017, 38-year old Kwauhuru Govan was arrested for Brazell's murder. Govan was also charged with a similar crime in November 2016 for a murder that had occurred in 2004.
