The Stations You Might Never Go - B/D/F/Q/N Trains

“The next and the last stop is: Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue.”

If you take one of the D, F, Q, N train which heads towards Brooklyn, you will hear the conductor’s voice greeting through speakers like above.

You may use NYC subway every day, but you might haven’t been travelled to any of these terminal stations. This week, we will walk you through the last stops of B, D, F, Q and N Train, and enjoy an early spring weekend in Brooklyn with sunshine and beach.


First, let's take a look at the NYC subway map. The last stops of B, D, F, Q are all down in Brooklyn.

Located at the corner of Stillwell and Surf Avenues in Coney Island, the Terminal Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue Station has eight tracks and four island platforms, with trains entering from both compass north and south. It is one of the biggest subway stations in NYC.

This station is featured with a collection art of My Coney Island Baby (2003) by Robert Wilson, an artist and theater director. Wilson’s arts are spanned on a glass brick wall, which stretches approximately 370 feet along one side of the station. His inspiration came from an exploration of Coney Island’s holiday trip and amusement park that sits just several blocks outside the subway station.

Right across of the street of the main station, a colorful candy shop you must hang in is “IT’SUGAR”. This store is full of innovative sweets, fun novelty gifts, and giant candy. A good idea is to grab a small bag of mixed candy and keep it later on. Why? Let’s wait and see.

Also, the amusement park, Luna Park, is just a few feet away along the beach. However, it will open on April 8. It’s a pity that we missed the opportunity to enter the park this time.

There is a beautiful beach where you can spend the whole afternoon. You can sing and dance, walk your dogs and enjoy the fascinating sunset on the wooden bridge here. Laying on the wooden deck chair on the bridge, you will see a versatile series of colors changing and suddenly be reminded that, nature is the greatest artist in the world. Now you can enjoy the candy you grabbed.

Brighton Beach Station, the terminal station of B train is just nearby. Travelling from Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue Station, you can just simply take the Q Train. This stop is located in a community, with many delicious but affordable small restaurants around.

On the routes of B and Q trains, even though Sheepshead Bay is not a terminus, we highly recommend you to explore the bay.

An interesting blogger describes it in these words:

“When I first started researching NYC history I assumed that Sheepshead Bay was named for its one-time resemblance, in outline, to a sheep’s head. After all, that’s how a peninsula on the North Shore in Nassau County, Cow Neck, was named. Only later did I discover that it was named for a fish that can no longer be found in the local waters, the sheepshead.”

If you want a lazy weekend to refresh yourself, here is the place.

Anyway, the end of a line is not the terminus. Instead, it is just the beginning of a trip.