Sunset Park to celebrate 4th Ave. subway’s 100th Anniversary
The front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 19, 1915, heralded the arrival of a new subway line in the borough. Running beneath Fourth Avenue, the subway line stretched all the way to Sunset Park and within a few years would expand deep into Bay Ridge.
Today, it’s known as the R train.
The Eagle headline proudly announced, “Opening of $25,000,000 Fourth Avenue Subway Is Preface To Brooklyn Vast New Programme (sic) Of Development.”