Kings Highway station (BMT Sea Beach Line)

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 Kings Highway
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View from the Highlawn Av overpass
Station statistics
AddressKings Highway & West Seventh Street
Brooklyn, New York
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Gravesend
Coordinates 40°36′11.33″N73°58′48.83″W / 40.6031472°N 73.9802306°W / 40.6031472; -73.9802306
Division B (BMT) [1]
Line BMT Sea Beach Line
Services    N   NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg (all times)
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TransitAiga bus trans.svg NYCT Bus: B82, B82 SBS
Structure Open-cut
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4 (2 in regular service)
Other information
OpenedJune 22, 1915;109 years ago (1915-06-22) [2]
ClosedJanuary 18, 2016;9 years ago (2016-01-18) (northbound reconstruction)
July 31, 2017;7 years ago (2017-07-31) (southbound reconstruction)
RebuiltMay 22, 2017;7 years ago (2017-05-22) (northbound reopening)
October 29, 2018;6 years ago (2018-10-29) (southbound reopening)
Accessible not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Opposite-
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Yes
Traffic
20231,247,257 [3] Increase2.svg 11.3%
Rank248 out of 423 [3]
Services
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Bay Parkway
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Local
Avenue U
N   NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg W   NYCS-SSI-rushonly.svg
Location
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Track layout

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Street map

Kings Highway station (BMT Sea Beach Line)

Station service legend
SymbolDescription
NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg Stops all times
NYCS-SSI-rushonly.svg Stops rush hours only
NYCS-SSI-rushpeak.svg Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

The Kings Highway station is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Kings Highway and West Seventh Street in Gravesend, Brooklyn. It is served by the N train at all times. During rush hours, several W trains also serve this station.

History

This station opened on June 22, 1915, along with the rest of the Sea Beach Line. [2]

From January 18, 2016, to May 22, 2017, the Manhattan-bound platform at this station was closed for renovations. [4] [5] [6] The Coney Island-bound platform was closed from July 31, 2017 [7] [8] to October 29, 2018. [9] In 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program. [10] The project was to be funded by congestion pricing in New York City, but it was postponed in June 2024 after the implementation of congestion pricing was delayed. [11]

Station layout

GroundStreet levelStation building, entrance/exit, station agent, MetroCard and OMNY vending machines
Platform level Side platform
Northbound local NYCS-bull-trans-N-Std.svg toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard or 96th Street (select weekday trips) (Bay Parkway)
NYCS-bull-trans-W-Std.svg toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (select weekday trips) (Bay Parkway)
Northbound express No regular service
Southbound express Trackbed
Southbound local NYCS-bull-trans-N-Std.svg toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (Avenue U)
NYCS-bull-trans-W-Std.svg toward 86th Street (select weekday trips) (Avenue U)
Side platform
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Southbound platform, pre-renovation
Northbound platform, post-renovation Kings Hwy platforms N train.jpg
Northbound platform, post-renovation

This open-cut station has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are not normally used, but both tracks are available for rerouted trains. [12] The platforms are carved within the Earth's crust on an open cut. The concrete walls and columns are painted beige (previously the columns were blue-green).[ citation needed ]

Highlawn Av entrance of the Kings Highway Station

This station has two entrances, both of which are beige station houses at street-level between West Seventh and West Eighth Streets above the tracks. Each one has a single staircase leading to each platform at either extreme ends. The main exit at the north end has a turnstile bank and token booth and leads to Kings Highway while the exit at the south end leads to Highlawn Avenue and is un-staffed, containing just a mini turnstile bank.[ citation needed ]

At the southeast end of the station, switches allow trains to crossover between any of the four tracks. North of here, the Manhattan-bound express track continues with the rest of Sea Beach Line, but there are no signals until Eighth Avenue, so only one train is allowed to run along this stretch at a time. It is signaled for bi-directional service like other center tracks on three track lines throughout the system. The Coney Island-bound express track has been severed from the other three tracks between Eighth Avenue and this station and is unusable for service. South of this station, the two usable express tracks continue until they merge with the local tracks south of 86th Street station. [12]

References

  1. "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Through Tube to Coney, 48 Minutes: First Train on Fourth Avenue Route Beats West End Line Eleven Minutes". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 22, 1915. Retrieved June 29, 2015 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. 1 2 "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. Romano, Denise (October 4, 2013). "Two elevators coming to the N line during massive rehabilitation". The Brooklyn Reporter. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  5. "New York City Subway Map" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 1, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 2, 2017. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  6. DeJesus, Jaime (May 17, 2017). "Manhattan-bound service to return to N stations on Sea Beach Line". The Brooklyn Reporter. Archived from the original on October 27, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  7. "Manhattan-Bound Service Returns to N Stations on Sea Beach Line". www.mta.info (Press release). New York City, NY: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 17, 2017. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  8. "Transit & Bus Committee Meeting - November 2018" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. November 13, 2018. p. 164. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
  9. "MTA Announces 20 Additional Subway Stations to Receive Accessibility Improvements Under Proposed 2020-2024 Capital Plan". mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 19, 2019. Archived from the original on April 21, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  10. Collins, Keith (July 11, 2024). "See How Your Subway Service May Suffer Without Congestion Pricing". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  11. 1 2 Dougherty, Peter (2020). Tracks of the New York City Subway 2020 (16th ed.). Dougherty. OCLC   1056711733.