Kings Highway (BMT Sea Beach Line)

This article is about the New York City Subway station in Brooklyn at West Seventh 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 & West Seventh Street Brooklyn, NY 11223
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Gravesend
Coordinates
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Sea Beach Line
Services	N  (all times)
Transit connections	New York City Bus: B82
Structure	Open-cut
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4 (2 in regular service)
Other information
Opened	June 22, 1915 (1915-06-22)
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,687,226  3.5%
Rank	279 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	Bay Parkway: N
Next south	Avenue U: N
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

Kings Highway is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Kings Highway and West Seventh Street, it is served by the N train at all times. It opened on June 22, 1915.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Street House, Entrance/Exit station agent, MetroCard vending machines
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard (Bay Parkway)
	Northbound express	← No regular service
	Southbound express	→ No regular service
	Southbound local	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Avenue U) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

File:Kings Hwy plat Seabeach BMT jeh.JPG

Southbound platform

This open-cut station has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are not normally used, but both tracks are available for rerouted trains. The platforms are carved within the Earth's crust on an open cut. The concrete walls are painted beige and the columns are blue.

This station has two entrances, both of which are beige station houses at street-level between West Seventh and West Eighth Streets above the tracks. Each one has a single staircase leading to each platform at either extreme ends. The main exit at the north end has a turnstile bank and token booth and leads to Kings Highway while the exit at the south end leads to Highlawn Avenue and is un-staffed, containing just HEET turnstiles and exit-only turnstiles.

At the southeast end of the station, switches allow trains to crossover between any of the four tracks. North of here, the Manhattan-bound express track continues with the rest of Sea Beach Line, but there are no signals until Eighth Avenue, so only one train is allowed to run along this stretch at a time. It is signaled for bi-directional service like other center tracks on three track lines throughout the system. The Coney Island-bound express track has been severed from the other three tracks between Eighth Avenue and this station and is unusable for service. South of this station, the two usable express tracks continue until they merge with the local tracks south of 86th Street station.

This station, along with eight others along the Sea Beach Line, is scheduled for a rehabilitation starting in 2015.

External links

• nycsubway.org—BMT Sea Beach Line: Kings Highway
• Station Reporter — N Train
• The Subway Nut — Kings Highway Pictures
• Kings Highway entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Highlawn Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• tracks and platforms from Google Maps Street View