Kings Highway (BMT Brighton Line)

This article is about the New York City Subway station in Brooklyn at East 16th Street. For other stations of the same name, see Kings Highway (New York City Subway).

Kings Highway
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Station statistics
Address	Kings Highway & East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY 11229
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Midwood, Sheepshead Bay
Coordinates
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	B  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)       Q  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B2, B7, B31, B82 MTA Bus: B100
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	original station: July 2, 1878 (1878-07-02)
Rebuilt	current station: 1908 (1908)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	5,905,481  3.7%
Rank	74
Station succession
Next north	Avenue M (local): Q  Newkirk Plaza (express): B
Next south	Avenue U (local): Q  Sheepshead Bay (express): B
Next north	Prospect Park: B  Q
Next south	Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue: Q
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops weekdays only
Location

Kings Highway is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the Q train at all times and by the B on weekdays, it is located at Kings Highway between East 15th and East 16th Streets on the border of Midwood and Sheepshead Bay neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

Station layout

2F	Northbound local	← toward Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard weekdays, 57th Street – Seventh Avenue weekends (Avenue M)
	Island platform, doors will open on left, right
	Northbound express	← toward 145th Street (Bedford Park Boulevard rush hours), weekdays (Newkirk Plaza)
	Southbound express	→ toward Brighton Beach weekdays (Sheepshead Bay) →
	Island platform, doors will open on left, right
	Southbound local	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Avenue U) →
G	Street Level	Entrances/Exits
	Station house	to entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard vending machines (Elevators inside station house on north side of Kings Highway between 15th and 16th Streets)

File:Snowy Transit in Brooklyn (12294572526).jpg

The station in February 2014, during a snowstorm

This station has four tracks and two island platforms. The two platforms are offset from each other, with the northbound platform located roughly 75 feet further north than the southbound platform. It has three fare control areas at street level—two to Kings Highway/East 16th Street and one to Quentin Road/East 16th Street. The two mezzanines at Kings Highway, located directly underneath the subway embankment, were constructed in the original BMT format, but fully renovated in the 1980s, during which two identical sets of porcelain enamel artwork (Kings Highway Hieroglyphs by Rhoda Andors) were installed, one set in each mezzanine.

The entrance on the south side is normally the full-time entrance/exit, containing a turnstile bank, token booth, two staircases to each platform, and one exit-only turnstile from the Coney Island-bound platform. The one on the north is HEET access only, containing three turnstiles, a staircase to each platform and its MetroCard Vending Machines were installed on the sidewalk.

The part-time Quentin Road station house, located to the east of the embankment, has a turnstile bank, part-time booth, and two staircases to each platform. It was built after the station's opening to accommodate growing passenger flow as evidenced by its newer-style tiling and signage. Platform extensions are clearly present at the north end of the station. It has a token booth, turnstile bank, and two staircases to each platform with the southbound side requiring a short walk.

South of Kings Highway are diamond crossover switches that allow trains to switch from the local tracks to the express ones, and vice versa. Before Brighton signal replacement during the 1990s, a switch tower was in operation about 150 feet south of the station, facing the southbound local track; this tower has been abandoned, and control of the switches has passed to a master tower at DeKalb Avenue. During the signal replacement, a new signal electrical tower was installed over the express tracks at the south end of the station.

This station underwent reconstruction from 2009–11, which included installation of ADA-accessible elevators to the full-time fare control area and rebuilding of the platforms and station houses. A temporary platform was used to provide service that would normally stop at the closed platform.

Gallery

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  Kings Highway station, early 1980s

• Quentin Road Stationhouse.JPG

  Quentin Road station house

• Kings Highway HEET Entrance.jpg

  Entrance at the north side of Kings Highway

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Brighton Line: Kings Highway
• Station Reporter — B Train
• Station Reporter — Q Train
• Artwork: "Kings Highway Hieroglyphics", Rhoda Yohai Andors (1987)
• The Official Subway and Rail Art Guide
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Kings Highway (BMT Brighton Line)
• The Subway Nut — Kings Highway Pictures
• Kings Highway entrance — south side from Google Maps Street View
• Kings Highway entrance — north side from Google Maps Street View
• Quentin Road entrance from Google Maps Street View