High Street–Brooklyn Bridge (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = High Street–Brooklyn Bridge

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bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Eighth Avenue Line
service = Eighth Cranberry
platforms = 1 island platform
tracks = 2
passengers=1.675 million
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=6
borough = Brooklyn
open_date =June 24, 1933New York Times, [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10712FB345E16738DDDAC0A94DE405B838FF1D3 Jobs are Filled on All Subway Links] , June 25, 1933, page 8]
north_station = Broadway–Nassau Street
north_line = IND Eighth Avenue Line
north_service = Eighth Cranberry
south_station = Jay Street–Borough Hall
south_line = IND Eighth Avenue Line
south_service = Eighth Cranberry

High Street–Brooklyn Bridge is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. The station is built in a tube design. It is the northern-most Brooklyn stop for NYCS|A and NYCS|C trains. There are exits at both ends to the full length mezzanine along with evidence of removed center exits (since this station was built, the area now known as Cadman Plaza was completely rebuilt).

The north exit leads to Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Heights and the south exits onto Adams Street, on the border of Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown Brooklyn, adjacent to the central courthouse for the Federal Eastern District of New York.

The tile band at this station is a small "High" printed on the walls in a dark purple color scheme. Escalators connect the fare control to the platforms, presumably due to the depth of the station.

High Street is not directly accessible from the station, as the short one block street is blocked by a parking lot.

The station did not open on February 1, 1933, when the line through it was opened to Jay Street–Borough Hall, because the escalators had not been completed.New York Times, City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, February 1, 1933, page 19] The station, 70 feet (20 m) below the surface, [New York Times, [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A12FB395C16738DDDAE0994DE405B838FF1D3 Taxpayer's Suit on Subway Heard] , June 17, 1933, page 15] was opened on June 24, 1933.

Bus connections

*B25:"To East New York and Fulton Landing"
*B69:"To Windsor Terrace and Downtown Brooklyn"

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?7:1571|IND 8th Avenue|High Street/Brooklyn Bridge
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/aleff.htm A Lefferts]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/arock.htm A Rockaway]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ctrain.htm C Train]