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Fort Hamilton Parkway (BMT West End Line)

Fort Hamilton Parkway
"D" train
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Ft Hamilton Pkwy (BMT West End Line).JPG
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 (all times)
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened June 24, 1916; 101 years ago (1916-06-24)
Station code
Traffic
Passengers (2016) 1,349,733 Increase 4%
Rank 319 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Ninth Avenue: D all times
Next south 50th Street: D all times

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.

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

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 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.

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


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