Vanderbilt Avenue was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line.

The Fulton Street Elevated was built by the Kings County Elevated Railway Company and this station started service on April 24, 1888.

In 1898, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) absorbed the Kings County Elevated Railway, and it took over the Fulton Street El, and it was electrified on July 3, 1899.

In 1936, the Independent Subway System built the Fulton Street subway and added a station one block to the southeast named Clinton–Washington Avenues.

The el station became obsolete, and it closed on June 1, 1940,[4] when all service from Fulton Ferry and Park Row to Rockaway Avenue was abandoned, as it came under city ownership.