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A series of leases and mergers at the beginning of the 20th century ended the independent existence of a number of elevated and suburban railroads, including the Kings County Line and the bankrupt Brooklyn and Brighton Beach. Brooklyn was consolidated into the [[City of Greater New York]] in 1898. The new city turned its attention to subway building and the [[Interborough Rapid Transit Company]] had a leg up in landing the first two contracts. The Brooklyn interests, represented by the BRT, sought to win new subway contracts to integrate its system of elevated and suburban roads into new subways to be built. One such subway connection would bypass the Franklin Avenue route by funneling the Brighton Line through a direct subway route under Flatbush Avenue as part of Contract 4 of the [[Dual Contracts]] of 1913.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/20/100611839.pdf |title=Subway Contracts Solemnly Signed; Cheers at the Ceremonial Function When McCall Gets Willcox to Attest. |date=March 20, 1913 |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=January 11, 2018|language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Construction for the connection required the Coney Island-bound track to be diverted in a new tunnel to cross over the new subway connection and enter the rebuilt four-track Prospect Park station as an outside track. This track has a sharp curve that, coming from the north, has a sharp S-curve to the right and then to the left.<ref name="tracks"/>
The construction of this new connection directly contributed to the [[Malbone Street Wreck]] on November 1, 1918, which became at the time the worst rapid transit wreck in world history. A five-car wooden elevated train, heading southbound along the Franklin Avenue Line
=== Brighton subway connection ===
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