Park Place is a station on the BMT Franklin Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is served by the Franklin Avenue Shuttle at all times. It is unique in the subway system for two things: being the only station in the entire subway system to be served by only a shuttle (no other services stop at this station at any time) (considering station complexes one station each) and being the only solitary station to have only one track.HistoryThe station is located at the point where the tracks of the original Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway left the street surface and began running in an open-cut right-of-way on its route to Brighton Beach and Coney Island.A station was established at this spot to provide local residents access to trains of the Kings County Elevated Railway that had begun serving the line in 1896. This station consisted of two simple compacted earth platforms at the side of each track running south of Park Place.During 1905–1906, this portion of the line was rebuilt as a raised elevated railway and embankment structure, and a new station was built at this location, with a single floor-level island platform and a station house between the tracks. The new station was located with the station house over Park Place and the platform extending north from that point.
