Fort Hamilton Parkway station (BMT West End Line)
Fort Hamilton Parkway | |||||||
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Address | Fort Hamilton Parkway & New Utrecht Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11219 | ||||||
Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
Locale | Borough Park | ||||||
Division | B (BMT)[1] | ||||||
Line | BMT West End Line | ||||||
Services | D ![]() | ||||||
Structure | Elevated | ||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||
Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | ||||||
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Opened | June 24, 1916 | ||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||
Traffic | |||||||
2023 | 873,254[2] ![]() | ||||||
Rank | 315 out of 423[2] | ||||||
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Next north | Template:NYCS next | ||||||
Next south | Template:NYCS next | ||||||
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Fort Hamilton Parkway is a local station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located in Brooklyn at the intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway and New Utrecht Avenue, in the neighborhood of Borough Park. It is served by the D train at all times.
Station layout
Platform level | Side platform | |
Northbound local | ← ![]() | |
Peak-direction express | No regular service | |
Southbound local | ![]() | |
Side platform | ||
Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines | |
Ground | Street level | Entrance/exit |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Fort_Hamilton_Parkway_-_Entrance.jpg/175px-Fort_Hamilton_Parkway_-_Entrance.jpg)
This elevated station, opened on June 24, 1916 in the former location of the Brooklyn, Bath, & West End Railroad’s West Brooklyn Station,[4][5][6] has three tracks and two slightly offset side platforms. The center express track is not used in revenue service. Both platforms have cream-colored windscreens and red canopies, both supported by green frames and columns, for most of their centers. Their ends have steel waist-high fencing.
This station has two station houses beneath the platforms and tracks. The full-time one is at the south end. It has two staircases to each platform, a waiting area/crossunder, turnstile bank, token booth, and staircases going down to either northern corners of New Utrecht Avenue and 45th Street. The northern station house is abandoned. A single staircase from each platform goes down to a walkway on either side of the building, where a High Entry-Exit Turnstile provides access to and from the station. Two staircases go down to either side of New Utrecht Avenue between 44th and 43rd Streets.
The station's artwork, installed during a 2012 renovation, is called Gardens of Fort Hamilton Parkway Station by Portia Munson. It consists of stained glass murals on the platform windscreens depicting various plants.
In popular culture
This station was used in the karaoke music video for Hacken Lee's 為妳流淚 (Crying For You).
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ^ "Realty Boom Is Predicted for Borough Park Section". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 24, 1916. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Parade, Pageant Mark Celebration: Borough Park Civic Bodies and School Children Join in Festivities: West End Line Opened: First Train From Manhattan Over New "L" Extension of Dual System to Sixty-Second Street". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 24, 1916. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804nm.gla00188/?sp=15
External links
- nycsubway.org – BMT West End Line: Fort Hamilton Parkway
- Station Reporter — D Train
- The Subway Nut — Fort Hamilton Parkway Pictures
- 45th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- 44th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View