Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)

Wilson Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Wilson Avenue & Moffat Street Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bushwick
Coordinates	40°41′19″N 73°54′16″W / 40.6885°N 73.9044°W / 40.6885; -73.9044Coordinates: 40°41′19″N 73°54′16″W / 40.6885°N 73.9044°W / 40.6885; -73.9044
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Canarsie Line
Services	L  (all times)
Structure	Elevated (southbound) covered at-grade (northbound)
Levels	2
Platforms	2 side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks	2 (1 on each level)
Other information
Opened	July 14, 1928; 88 years ago (1928-07-14)
Accessible	(northbound only)
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,407,098  1%
Rank	316 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Halsey Street: L
Next south	Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street: L
Next north	Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues: L
Next south	station not accessible southbound Previous accessible station northbound: Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway: L
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference #	05000681
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.

Wilson Avenue opened on July 14, 1928, 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.

On September 21, 1984, Irma Lozada, a New York City Transit Police officer, was murdered at an abandoned lot south of the station. Lozada was part of the Plain Clothes Anti-Crime (PCAC) unit when she was gunned down by Darryl Jeter, a chain snatcher that took her service gun as she attempted to arrest him for stealing a necklace from an L train rider. Lozada was the first policewoman to be killed in action in New York City.

The station, which was designed by Robert Ridgway and Squire J. Vickers, has some features that are not found elsewhere in the system. It is squeezed in between the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, to the east, and the New York Connecting Railroad (NYCR) and the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Bay Ridge Branch, to the west. The two tracks and two side platforms are on different levels, making Wilson Avenue the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs. Since the platforms are on different levels, each has a different design. The southbound side sits on a low elevated structure; immediately south of the station, the southbound track passes over Central Avenue before descending into a tunnel toward Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street. The northbound side is immediately below the southbound side, and the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level.