Cypress Hills (BMT Jamaica Line)

Cypress Hills
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Hemlock Street & Jamaica Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11208
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Cypress Hills
Coordinates	40°41′23″N 73°52′23″W / 40.68972°N 73.87306°WCoordinates: 40°41′23″N 73°52′23″W / 40.68972°N 73.87306°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Jamaica Line
Services	J  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B13, Q56
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1893[1][2]
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	452,936[3]  0.5%
Rank	410 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	75th Street – Elderts Lane: J  (J  skips to 85th Street – Forest Parkway)
Next south	Crescent Street: J
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops all times
Location

Cypress Hills is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway, located on Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of northeastern Brooklyn. It is served by the J train at all times. The Z train bypasses it when it operates.

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	← toward Broad Street (Crescent Street) ← does not stop here
	Center track	→ No track or roadbed
	Northbound	→ toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (85th Street – Forest Parkway rush hours, 75th Street – Elderts Lane other times) → → does not stop here →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance

Northbound platform

This is the northernmost station in Brooklyn on the BMT Jamaica Line. The next stop, 75th Street – Elderts Lane, is in Queens.

This elevated station, opened on May 30, 1893, has two track and two side platforms with space for a center track that was never added. Both platforms have beige windscreens and green canopies with brown roofs that run along the entire length.

The station's main entrance is at the south end. A single staircase from each platform leads to an elevated station house beneath the tracks. Inside are three turnstiles and a token booth. Outside of fare control, two street stairs lead to the corners of Hemlock and Crescent Streets.

On the north end of the northbound platform, a single staircase leads to a landing outside of a now closed station house, where a single exit-only turnstile provides exit from the system. A street stair perpendicular to the line leads to Autumn Avenue, which ends at Jamaica Avenue.

The 1990 artwork here is called Five Points of Observation, by Kathleen McCarthy. It affords a view of the street from the platforms and resembles a face when seen from the street. This artwork is also located in four other stations on the Jamaica Line.

This station was the terminal for the Jamaica Line when it opened.^[4] It formerly had an island platform and stub-end located directly along Crescent Street just south of Jamaica Avenue that can still be seen approaching the cemetery east of the station.

When the Jamaica Avenue El was extended east from this station to 111th Street on May 28, 1917^[2] as part of the Dual Contracts, the two side platforms were added and the island platform was removed, which resulted in the large space between the two tracks.

References

1. "Trains Running This Morning". Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY). May 30, 1893. p. 10.
2. • "TO OPEN JAMAICA AV. LINE.; Nearly Two and a Half Miles Ready for Operation Tonight" (May 27, 1917). New York Times Company. May 27, 1917. p. 24. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
   • "Jamaica Avenue 'L' is an Old Story Already" (PDF) (May 31, 1917). Leader Observer (Queens/Brooklyn, NY). May 31, 1917. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
   • Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York, Volume 1. New York State Public Service Commission. January 15, 1918. pp. 73, 81, 312–314. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
3. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
4. http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?113358

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Jamaica Line: Cypress Hills
• Station Reporter — J Train
• The Subway Nut — Cypress Hills Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Cypress Hills (BMT Jamaica Line)
• Crescent Street and Hemlock Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Autumn Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View