Kings Highway (BMT Brighton Line)
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Kings Highway
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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| Address | Kings Highway & East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY 11229 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||
| Locale | Midwood, Sheepshead Bay | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°36′33″N 73°57′32″W / 40.609229°N 73.95884°WCoordinates: 40°36′33″N 73°57′32″W / 40.609229°N 73.95884°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||
| Line | BMT Brighton Line | ||||||||
| Services |
B  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)Q  (all times) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: B2, B7, B31, B82 MTA Bus: B100
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| Structure | Embankment | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms cross-platform interchange |
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| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||
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| Opened | original station: July 2, 1878 | ||||||||
| Rebuilt | current station: 1908 | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 5,905,481  3.7% |
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| Rank | 74 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
Avenue M (local): Q Newkirk Plaza (express): B
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| Next south |
Avenue U (local): Q Sheepshead Bay (express): B
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| Next north |
Prospect Park: B Q
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| Next south |
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue: Q
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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.
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.
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.
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