Fort Hamilton Parkway (BMT West End Line)

Fort Hamilton Parkway
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Fort Hamilton Parkway & New Utrecht Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11219
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Borough Park
Coordinates 40°38′27″N 73°59′40″W / 40.6407°N 73.9944°W / 40.6407; -73.9944Coordinates: 40°38′27″N 73°59′40″W / 40.6407°N 73.9944°W / 40.6407; -73.9944
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT West End Line
Services       D  (all times)
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened June 24, 1916 (1916-06-24)
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,297,755[1] Decrease 1.5%
Rank 329 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Ninth Avenue: D 
Next south 50th Street: D 

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

Track layout
Legend
to 9 Av
to 50 St
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound local ← toward Norwood – 205th Street (Ninth Avenue)
Peak-direction express → No regular service
Southbound local → toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (50th Street) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
M Mezzanine to entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
G Street Level Entrances/Exits
Northwestern stair

This elevated station, opened on June 24, 1916 in the former location of the Brooklyn, Bath, & West End Railroad’s West Brooklyn Station,[2][3][4] 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.

This station was used in the karaoke music video for Hacken Lee's 為妳流淚 (Crying For You).

References

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ "Realty Boom Is Predicted for Borough Park Section". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 24, 1916. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804nm.gla00188/?sp=15
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