Fort Hamilton Parkway (IND Culver Line)

Fort Hamilton Parkway ​
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Fort Hamilton Parkway & Prospect Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11218
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Windsor Terrace
Coordinates	40°39′5.24″N 73°58′33.08″W / 40.6514556°N 73.9758556°W / 40.6514556; -73.9758556Coordinates: 40°39′5.24″N 73°58′33.08″W / 40.6514556°N 73.9758556°W / 40.6514556; -73.9758556
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Culver Line
Services	F  (all times) ​      G  (all times)
Transit connections	MTA Bus: B103
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened	October 7, 1933; 84 years ago (1933-10-07)
Station code	242
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	1,845,401  3%
Rank	265 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	15th Street–Prospect Park: F  ​G
Next south	Church Avenue: F  ​G
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Fort Hamilton Parkway is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the F and G trains at all times.

There are two local tracks and two side platforms. The unused express tracks run under the station and are not visible from the platforms. The tile band is orange-yellow with a medium red-brown border; the tablets are set in the reverse of this color scheme. Several replacement tiles in bright orange-red have been observed.

South of this station, on the express tracks on the lower level, there are bellmouths for a proposed subway line along Fort Hamilton Parkway and/or the parallel Tenth Avenue. After diverging into two lines at around 65th Street, the mainline would have terminated at 86th Street in Bay Ridge, and the other line would travel west from the mainline towards a partially-built tunnel to Staten Island. An alternate plan proposed a connection to the BMT West End Line at New Utrecht Avenue. These lines were planned as part of the IND Second System.

The IND Culver Line's Church Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway stations were the last underground stations to get fluorescent lighting on platform level, which replaced the incandescent lighting in 1987.

The full-time, northern entrance is by Greenwood and Prospect Avenues, with two street staircases and a block-long passageway northward to the northeast corner of Prospect Avenue and Reeve Place for one additional street staircase. There is a closed staircase that would have led to a fare control area at platform level at the Manhattan-bound side. This area is gated shut, and about half of the space is taken by station facilities with additional tiles.

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