Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)
Wilson Avenue![]() |
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New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||
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Southbound platform
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Address | Wilson Avenue & Moffat Street Brooklyn, NY 11207 |
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Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
Locale | Bushwick | ||||||
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Division | B (BMT) | ||||||
Line | BMT Canarsie Line | ||||||
Services | L ![]() |
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Structure | Elevated (southbound) covered at-grade (northbound) |
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Levels | 2 | ||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms (1 on each level) | ||||||
Tracks | 2 (1 on each level) | ||||||
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Opened | July 14, 1928 | ||||||
Traffic | |||||||
Passengers (2015) | 1,407,098[1] ![]() |
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Rank | 316 | ||||||
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Next north | Halsey Street: L ![]() |
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Next south | Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street: L ![]() |
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Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)
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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) |
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Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Northbound (1F) |
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Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Fare control, passageway to entrance/exit | ||
G | Street Level | Entrance/exit |
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
Further reading
- Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0
External links
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- The Subway Nut — Wilson Avenue Pictures
- Wilson Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
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- BMT Canarsie Line stations
- Railway and subway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn
- Railway stations opened in 1928
- Bushwick, Brooklyn
- National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn, New York City