Kings Highway (BMT Sea Beach Line)

 Kings Highway
 "N" train
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Kings Highway & West Seventh Street
Brooklyn, NY 11223
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Gravesend
Coordinates 40°36′11.33″N 73°58′48.83″W / 40.6031472°N 73.9802306°W / 40.6031472; -73.9802306Coordinates: 40°36′11.33″N 73°58′48.83″W / 40.6031472°N 73.9802306°W / 40.6031472; -73.9802306
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Sea Beach Line
Services       N  (all times)
​      W  (selected rush-hour trips)
Transit connections New York City Bus: B82, B82 SBS
Structure Open-cut
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened June 22, 1915 (1915-06-22)[1]
Station code 077[2]
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 910,558[3] Increase 91.4%
Rank 369 out of 425
Station succession
Next north Bay Parkway: N  ​W 
Next south Avenue U: ZZZtemporarily closed for renovation

Kings Highway 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 and several W trains during rush hours in the northbound direction only. Southbound trains will not stop here until fall 2018 due to station rehabilitation.

Station layout

Track layout
to Bay Pkwy
to Av U
G Station house Entrances/Exits
Station agent, MetroCard vending machines
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound local ← "N" train "W" train toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (Bay Parkway)
Northbound express No regular service
Southbound express "N" train does not stop here →
Southbound local → No service (Avenue U)
Side platform, being renovated until 2018
Southbound platform

This open-cut station, which opened on June 22, 1915,[1] has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are not normally used, but both tracks are available for rerouted trains. The platforms are carved within the Earth's crust on an open cut. The concrete walls are painted beige and the columns are blue.

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 HEET turnstiles and exit-only turnstiles.

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.

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 platforms closed on July 31, 2017, with an expected reopening in Fall 2018.[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Through Tube to Coney, 48 Minutes: First Train on Fourth Avenue Route Beats West End Line Eleven Minutes". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 22, 1915. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Two elevators coming to the N line during massive rehabilitation". October 4, 2013. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  5. ↑ "N Line Sea Beach - 2016". web.mta.info. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
    • "9 Brooklyn N train stations to shut down for 14 months". am New York. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
    • Katinas, Paula (December 18, 2014). "Commuter headache: MTA to renovate N train stations". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ DeJesus, Jaime (May 17, 2017). "Manhattan-bound service to return to N stations on Sea Beach Line". brooklynreporter.com. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Manhattan-Bound Service Returns to N Stations on Sea Beach Line". www.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 17, 2017. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
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