Wilson Avenue station

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AddressWilson Avenue & Moffat Street
Brooklyn, New York
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Bushwick
Coordinates 40°41′19″N73°54′16″W / 40.6885°N 73.9044°W / 40.6885; -73.9044
Division B (BMT) [1]
Line     BMT Canarsie Line
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StructureElevated (southbound)
covered at-grade (northbound)
Levels2
Platforms2 stacked side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks2 (1 on each level)
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OpenedJuly 14, 1928;96 years ago (1928-07-14)
Accessible Wheelchair symbol.svg Partially ADA-accessible (northbound only)
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Traffic
2023952,643 [2] Increase2.svg 3.2%
Rank300 out of 423 [2]
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Halsey Street NYCS-bull-trans-L-Std.svg Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street
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Wilson Avenue station

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Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)
MPS New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No. 05000681 [3]
Added to NRHPJuly 6, 2005

The Wilson Avenue station is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Moffat Street in Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times.

History

Wilson Avenue opened on July 14, 1928, as part of an extension of the Canarsie Line. This extension, done as part of the Dual Contracts, connected Montrose Avenue, which had opened four years earlier, to Broadway Junction, which was the western end of the already-operating elevated line to Canarsie. [4] The station opened next to the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, making the eastbound platform overlook the pre-existing cemetery. [5]

On September 21, 1984, Irma Lozada, a New York City Transit Police officer, was murdered at an abandoned lot south of the station. Lozada was part of the Plain Clothes Anti-Crime unit when she was gunned down by Darryl Jeter, a chain snatcher that took her service gun as she attempted to arrest him for stealing a necklace from a rider. Lozada was the first policewoman to be killed in action in New York City. [6]

In the 2010s, the ground-level Manhattan-bound platform was made accessible at a cost of between three and five million dollars under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) via the use of a ramp from the Wilson Avenue entrance. The elevated Canarsie-bound platform was not proposed to get ADA access since it would be much more costly to add an elevator up to the Canarsie-bound level. [7]

Station layout

2FEastbound NYCS-bull-trans-L-Std.svg toward Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway (Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street)
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Street levelStation house, entrance/exit, fare control, station agent
Wheelchair symbol.svg Wheelchair ramp at dead-end of Wilson Avenue east of Moffat Street for northbound trains only
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Street entrance prior to accessible ramp implementation and staircase raised by one step.

The station, which was designed by Robert Ridgway and Squire J. Vickers, [3] has some features that are not found elsewhere in the system. [8] It is squeezed in between the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, to the east, and the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Bay Ridge Branch, to the west. The two tracks and two side platforms are on different levels, making Wilson Avenue the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs. [8] Since the platforms are on different levels, each has a different design. The outbound track sits on a low elevated structure; immediately south of the station, the outbound track passes over Central Avenue before descending into a tunnel toward Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street. The inbound track is immediately below the outbound track, and this portion of the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level. [8] [9]

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The northbound platform

The Rockaway Parkway-bound (upper level) platform has a canopy along the entire length of the platform, supported by a beige concrete retaining wall with curved green supports extending from the wall at regular intervals. [8] [9] A fence runs along the track side of the southbound platform, separating the subway station from the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, which is visible directly through the fence. [8] [9] The Manhattan-bound (lower level) platform has tiling and name plaques, which is typical for a Canarsie Line underground station. A concrete wall closes off the east side of the lower level. [8] The mosaic band is predominantly green at edges with a vivid multicolored design throughout, 28 colors in all. The trackside wall once had tiles that matched those of the platform, but these tiles were removed sometime after 1982, and the trackside wall is currently the same plain, dark color as a typical New York City Subway tunnel wall. [8] [9]

Exit

There is one entrance and exit to the station, which is in a dead-end at the foot of Wilson Avenue, just east of Moffat Street. [10] There are five steps leading up to the station entrance, [8] [9] as well as a accessible ramp. [11] The entrance feeds directly onto the northbound platform with stairs to southbound service on the upper level. [8] [9]

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