Hewes Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
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| Address |
Hewes Street & Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11211 | ||||||||
| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||
| Locale | Williamsburg | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′24″N 73°57′11″W / 40.706669°N 73.953009°WCoordinates: 40°42′24″N 73°57′11″W / 40.706669°N 73.953009°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||
| Line | BMT Jamaica Line | ||||||||
| Services |
J  M  | ||||||||
| Transit connections |
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | June 25, 1888[1] | ||||||||
| Station code | 100[2] | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2017) |
894,671[3]  | ||||||||
| Rank | 372 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next east |
Lorimer Street: J | ||||||||
| Next west |
Marcy Avenue: J | ||||||||
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Hewes Street is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Hewes Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction and the M train at all times except late nights. The Z train skips this station when it operates.
Station layout
| P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Westbound local[4] | ← ← | |
| Peak-direction express | ←  | |
| Eastbound local[4] | → → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent |
| G | Street Level | Exit / Entrance |
This elevated station, built four stories above street level and opened on June 25, 1888,[1] has two side platforms and three tracks. The center track is used by the J and Z trains in the peak direction weekday midday and rush hours. Each platform has beige windscreens, green canopies, and red roofs that run from end to end.
The artwork here is called El in 16 Notes by Mara Held. It features sixteen panels of art glass, each containing random geometric shapes and is based on shapes found in dress patterns.
Exits
The station's only active entrance is at the west (railroad north) end of the station. Each platform has a single staircase leading to the elevated station house beneath the tracks. It has a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside of fare control, two staircases lead to the western corners of Broadway and Hooper Street.[5] Each staircase landing has an exit-only turnstile to allow passengers to exit without having to go through the station house.
The exits to Hewes Street at the east (railroad south) end of the station are now emergency exits, and the station house has been removed. From each platform, a single staircase goes down to Broadway, the northbound platform to the south side of Broadway, and the southbound one to the northeast corner of Hewes Street, Broadway, and New Montrose Avenue;[6] Hewes Street is split at separate intersections with Broadway.[5] The Hewes Street exits were closed in the 1980s due to high crime.[6][7][8] These exits will reopen prior to the 14th Street Tunnel shutdown in 2019, to accommodate L train riders who would be displaced with the Canarsie Tubes under the East River are closed. The Hewes Street exits would also contain a temporary MetroCard transfer to the nearby Broadway station on the G train.[9]
Gallery
Hooper Street stationhouse
Exit-Only Turnstile
Hooper Street entrances
Platform stairs
References
- 1 2 "The Broadway Line Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 25 June 1888. p. 6.
- ↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- 1 2 This is a wrong-way concurrency in railroad direction.
- 1 2 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Williamsburg & Bedford-Stuyvesant" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- 1 2 Muessig, Ben; Foretek, Jared; Geis, Shannon (August 24, 2009). "MTA still has no 'Hewes' for station entrances". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ↑ Harshbarger, Rebecca; De La Hoz, Felipe (October 12, 2015). "Williamsburg, Bushwick subway entrances sealed despite ridership spike". AM New York. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ "Closed subway entrances". WNYC (AM). October 31, 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ New York City Transit Authority (July 2018). "MTA New York City Transit Canarsie Tunnel Project Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Review: Final Report" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. p. 16. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hewes Street (BMT Jamaica Line). |
- nycsubway.org – BMT Jamaica Line: Hewes Street
- Station Reporter — J Train
- Station Reporter — M Train
- The Subway Nut — Hewes Street Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Hewes Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
- Hooper Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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