Fort Hamilton Parkway (IND Culver Line)

Fort Hamilton Parkway
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Fort Hamilton Parkway & Prospect Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11218
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Windsor Terrace
Coordinates	40°39′5.24″N 73°58′33.08″W / 40.6514556°N 73.9758556°WCoordinates: 40°39′5.24″N 73°58′33.08″W / 40.6514556°N 73.9758556°W
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Culver Line
Services	F  (all times)       G  (all times)
Transit connections	MTA Bus: B103
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened	October 7, 1933
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,792,239[1]  3.6%
Rank	272 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	15th Street – Prospect Park: F  G
Next south	Church Avenue: F  G
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

Fort Hamilton Parkway is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the F and G trains at all times.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
B2 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward Jamaica – 179th Street (15th Street – Prospect Park) ← toward Court Square (15th Street – Prospect Park)
	Southbound local	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Church Avenue) → → toward Church Avenue (Terminus) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B3 Express tracks	Northbound express	← No regular service
	Southbound express	→ No regular service

NE stair

South ramp

There are two local tracks and two side platforms. The unused express tracks run under the station and are not visible from the platforms. The tile band is orange-yellow with a medium red-brown border; the tablets are set in the reverse of this color scheme. Several replacement tiles in bright orange-red have been observed.

The full-time, northern entrance is by Greenwood and Prospect Avenues, with two street staircases and a block-long passageway northward to the northeast corner of Prospect Avenue and Reeve Place for one additional street staircase. There is a closed staircase that would have led to a fare control area at platform level at the Manhattan-bound side. This area is gated shut, and about half of the space is taken by station facilities with additional tiles.

The south end exit is to Fort Hamilton Parkway and has full-time HEET access and a former booth. The only exit at this end is a ramp (no staircase) that runs along the western side of the Prospect Expressway, up and down a small hill. This exit replaced the original 1933 staircase exit, when Robert Moses built the expressway. From the mezzanine area, one can see the variation in tile colors and styles when the new entrance was added in 1962, coinciding with the opening of the expressway. This can be seen when facing the ramp.

South of this station, on the express tracks on the lower level, there are bellmouths for a proposed subway line along Fort Hamilton Parkway and/or the parallel Tenth Avenue. After diverging into two lines at around 65th Street, the mainline would have terminated at 86th Street in Bay Ridge, and the other line would travel west from the mainline towards a partially-built tunnel to Staten Island. An alternate plan proposed a connection to the BMT West End Line at New Utrecht Avenue. These lines were planned as part of the IND Second System.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

The IND Culver Line's Church Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway stations were the last underground stations to get fluorescent lighting on platform level, which replaced the incandescent lighting in 1987.

References

1. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
2. Joseph B. Raskin (1 November 2013). The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-5369-2. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
3. Roger P. Roess; Gene Sansone (23 August 2012). The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 416–417. ISBN 978-3-642-30484-2.
4. "Suggested Rapid Transit Lines in Richmond Borough". historicrichmondtown.org. Historic Richmond Town. 1930. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
5. "DC: A Tunnel from SI to Brooklyn?". Daniel Convissor. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
6. "Transit Progress on Staten Island". The New York Times. April 19, 1931. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
7. "City Rapid Transit Urged in Richmond". The New York Times. April 19, 1932. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
8. "New Yorkers Urge Loan For Tunnel". The New York Times. Washington, D.C. September 22, 1932. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
9. "Vogel to Press for West End L, Culver Links". Newspapers.com. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. August 14, 1940. pp. 1–2.

External links

• nycsubway.org—IND Crosstown: Fort Hamilton Parkway
• Station Reporter — F Train
• The Subway Nut — Fort Hamilton Parkway Pictures
• Fort Hamilton Parkway entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Greenwood and Prospect Avenues entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Reeve Place entrance from Google Maps Street View