Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)

Wilson Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address Wilson Avenue & Moffat Street
Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Bushwick
Coordinates 40°41′19″N 73°54′16″W / 40.6885°N 73.9044°W / 40.6885; -73.9044Coordinates: 40°41′19″N 73°54′16″W / 40.6885°N 73.9044°W / 40.6885; -73.9044
Division B (BMT)
Line       BMT Canarsie Line
Services       L  (all times)
Structure Elevated (southbound)
covered at-grade (northbound)
Levels 2
Platforms 2 side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks 2 (1 on each level)
Other information
Opened July 14, 1928 (1928-07-14)
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,407,098[1] Increase 1%
Rank 316 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Halsey Street: L 
Next south Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street: L 
Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)
MPS New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference # 05000681[2]
Added to NRHP July 6, 2005

Wilson Avenue is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Moffat Street in Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times.

History

Wilson Avenue opened on July 14, 1928,[3] as part of an extension of the Canarsie Line. This extension connected Montrose Avenue, which had opened four years earlier, to Broadway Junction, which was the western end of the already-operating elevated line to Canarsie.

Station layout

Southbound
(2F)		 → toward Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway (Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound
(1F)		 ← toward 14th Street – Eighth Avenue (Halsey Street)
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Fare control, passageway to entrance/exit
G Street Level Entrance/exit
Street entrance

The station's design has some unusual features.[4] It is squeezed in next to the New York Connecting Railroad and the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Bay Ridge Branch, and the two tracks and two side platforms are on different levels—the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs.[4] The southbound side sits on a low elevated structure, guarded by a tall fence, with a panoramic view of Most Holy Trinity Cemetery. Immediately south of the station, the southbound track passes over Central Avenue before descending into a tunnel toward Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street.[4] The northbound side is immediately below, and the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level.[4]

Exits

There is one entrance and exit to the station, which is in a dead-end at the foot of Wilson Avenue, just east of Moffat Street. There are three steps leading up to the station entrance.[4] The entrance feeds directly onto the northbound platform with stairs to southbound service on the upper level.[4] A concrete wall closes off the east side of the lower level; the shed on the upper level runs the entire length of the platform.[4] The mosaic band is predominantly green at edges with a vivid multicolored design throughout, twenty-eight colors in all.[4] The trackside wall once had tiles that matched those of the platform, but sometime after 1982, these tiles were removed.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Last Link of New 14th St-E.D. Subway To Be Opened Today: First Train This Afternoon Will Carry Officials – Citizens to Celebrate". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 14, 1928. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/BMT_Canarsie_Line#Wilson_Avenue

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