Kings Highway station (BMT Brighton Line)

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 Kings Highway
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AddressKings Highway & East 16th Street
Brooklyn, New York
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Midwood, Homecrest
Coordinates 40°36′33″N73°57′32″W / 40.609229°N 73.95884°W / 40.609229; -73.95884
Division B (BMT) [1]
Line BMT Brighton Line
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Structure Embankment
Platforms2 island platforms
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Tracks4
Other information
Openedoriginal station: July 2, 1878;146 years ago (1878-07-02)
Rebuiltcurrent station: August 23, 1907;117 years ago (1907-08-23)
Accessible Wheelchair symbol.svg ADA-accessible
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Traffic
20234,244,252 [2] Increase2.svg 9.6%
Rank66 out of 423 [2]
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Kings Highway station (BMT Brighton Line)

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SymbolDescription
NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg Stops all times
NYCS-SSI-weekdaysonly.svg Stops weekdays during the day

The Kings Highway station is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at Kings Highway between East 15th and East 16th Streets on the border of Midwood and Homecrest neighborhoods of Brooklyn. [3] [4] The station is served by the Q train at all times and by the B train on weekdays only.

History

On August 1, 1920, a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue opened, connecting the Brighton Line to the Broadway subway in Manhattan. [5] [6] At the same time, the line's former track connections to the Fulton Street Elevated were severed. Subway trains from Manhattan and elevated trains from Franklin Avenue served Brighton Line stations, sharing the line to Coney Island. [6] [7]

On January 10, 1951, a new entrance to Quentin Road and East 16th Street was opened with a modern station house. The $250,000 project took approximately a year to be completed. [8]

A renovation of the Kings Highway station was funded as part of the MTA's 1980–1984 capital plan. [9] The MTA received a $106 million grant from the Urban Mass Transit Administration in October 1983; most of the grant would fund the renovation of eleven stations, [10] [11] including Kings Highway. [10]

This station underwent reconstruction from 2009 to 2011, which included installation of ADA-accessible elevators to the full-time fare control area and rebuilding of the platforms and station houses. A temporary platform was used to provide service that would normally stop at the closed platform. [12]

Station layout

Platform levelNorthbound local NYCS-bull-trans-Q-Std.svg toward 96th Street (Avenue M)
Island platform Wheelchair symbol.svg
Northbound express NYCS-bull-trans-B-Std.svg weekdays toward Bedford Park Boulevard or 145th Street (Newkirk Plaza)
Southbound express NYCS-bull-trans-B-Std.svg weekdays toward Brighton Beach (Sheepshead Bay)
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Southbound local NYCS-bull-trans-Q-Std.svg toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (Avenue U)
GroundStreet levelEntrances/exits, station house and agent, MetroCard machines
Wheelchair symbol.svg Elevators inside station house on north side of Kings Highway between 15th and 16th Streets
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The southbound platform in February 2014, after the reconstruction project

This station has four tracks and two island platforms. [13] The Q stops here at all times and is local, while the B stops here only on weekdays during the day and is express. The next stop to the north is Avenue M for local trains and Newkirk Plaza for express trains, while the next stop to the south is Avenue U for local trains and Sheepshead Bay for express trains. [14]

The two platforms are offset from each other, with the northbound platform located roughly 75 feet (23 m) further north than the southbound platform. It has three fare control areas at street level—two to Kings Highway/East 16th Street and one to Quentin Road/East 16th Street. The two mezzanines at Kings Highway, located directly underneath the subway embankment, were constructed in the original BMT format, but fully renovated in the 1980s, during which two identical sets of porcelain enamel artwork (Kings Highway Hieroglyphs by Rhoda Andors) were installed, one set in each mezzanine.

South of Kings Highway are a series of switches that allow trains to switch from the local tracks to the express ones, and vice versa. [15] Before Brighton signal replacement during the 1990s, a switch tower was in operation about 150 feet (46 m) south of the station, facing the southbound local track; this tower has been abandoned, and control of the switches has passed to a master tower at DeKalb Avenue. During the signal replacement, a new signal electrical tower was installed over the express tracks at the south end of the station. [13]

Exits

The entrance on the south side is normally the full-time entrance/exit, containing a turnstile bank, token booth, two staircases to each platform, and one exit-only turnstile from the Coney Island-bound platform. The one on the north is HEET access only, containing three turnstiles, a staircase to each platform and its MetroCard Vending Machines were installed on the sidewalk. [16]

The part-time Quentin Road station house, located to the east of the embankment, has a turnstile bank, part-time booth, and two staircases to each platform. It was built after the station's opening to accommodate growing passenger flow as evidenced by its newer-style tiling and signage. Platform extensions are clearly present at the north end of the station. It has a token booth, turnstile bank, and two staircases to each platform with the southbound side requiring a short walk. [16]

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 "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  3. "Homecrest, Brooklyn" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  4. "Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  5. "New Subway Link Opens; Service Started Through Queens and Montague Street Tubes". The New York Times. August 1, 1920. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Montague Street Tube, Brighton Subway Operation Begun". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. August 1, 1920. p. 53. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018 via Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com.
  7. Kennedy, Randy (September 30, 2003). "Tunnel Vision; Short Line. Small Train. Little Graffiti". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  8. "BMT Station's Ritzy Entrance to Open Today". New York Daily News. January 10, 1951. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  9. Goldman, Ari L. (April 28, 1983). "M.T.A. Making Major Addition to Capital Plan". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  10. 1 2 Moses, Charles T. (October 3, 1983). "TA Gets Funds to Fix Subways". Newsday. p. 3. ISSN   2574-5298 . Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  11. Gargan, Edward A. (October 3, 1983). "City Speeding Its Subway Repairs". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 28, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  12. "Press Release - NYC Transit - Temporary Loss of Brighton Line Express". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 29, 2009. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  13. 1 2 Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC   49777633 via Google Books.
  14. "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  15. "Track Map: Brooklyn 3". www.nycsubway.org.
  16. 1 2 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Midwood" (PDF). mta.info . Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.