Kings Highway (BMT Brighton Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Kings Highway


font_color = black
bg_color = #FFC800
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = BMT Brighton Line
service = Brighton
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = "original station:" July 2, 1878
"current station:" 1908
north_line = BMT Brighton Line
north_local_station = Avenue M
north_local_service = Brighton local
north_express_station = Newkirk Avenue
north_express_service = Brighton express
south_line = BMT Brighton Line
south_local_station = Avenue U
south_local_service = Brighton local
south_express_station = Sheepshead Bay
south_express_service = Brighton express

Kings Highway is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the NYCS service|Q train at all times and by the NYCS service|B on weekdays, it is located at Kings Highway between East 15th and East 16th Streets in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn.

This express station has four tracks and two island platforms. 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 full time mezzanine on the south side of Kings Highway has an extra exit-only on the southbound side. The area on the north side is HEET access only and has no booth, although evidence shows it used to. These two mezzanines are original BMT construction but were fully renovated in the 1980s, during which time two identical sets of porcelain enamel artwork ("Kings Highway Hieroglyphs" by Rhoda Andors) were installed, one set in each mezzanine. The Quentin Road mezzanine, open weekdays only, was built sometime in the 1950s or 1960s to accommodate growing passenger flow; this is evidenced by its newer-style tiling and signage. Platform extensions are clearly present at the north end of the station.

. During the signal replacement, a new signal electrical tower was installed over the express tracks at the south end of the station.

Bus connections

*B2 to Marine Park and Kings Plaza via Avenue R
*B7 to Bedford-Stuyvesant via Kings Highway
*B31 to Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach via Avenue R then by Gerritsen Avenue
*B82 west to Gravesend and Bensonhurst via Kings Highway, Bay Parkway, Cropsey Avenue; east to Flatbush, Flatlands, Canarsie via Kings Highway & Flatlands Avenue
*B100 to Marine Park, Kings Plaza, Mill Basin via Fillmore Avenue

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?193:3201|BMT Brighton Line|Kings Highway
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/btrain.htm B Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/qtrain.htm Q Train]
* [http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork?20 Artwork: "Kings Highway Hieroglyphics", Rhoda Yohai Andors (1987)]
* [http://www.mta.info/mta/aft/ The Official Subway and Rail Art Guide]