Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Wilson Avenue
bg_color = #838A88


image_caption = Southbound platform
line = BMT Canarsie Line
service = Canarsie
platforms = 2 side platforms (1 on each of 2 levels)
tracks = 2 (1 on each of 2 levels)
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = December 14, 1928
north_station = Halsey Street
north_line = BMT Canarsie Line
north_service = Canarsie
south_station = Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street
south_line = BMT Canarsie Line
south_service = Canarsie

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 NYCS service|L train at all times.

The station's design has some unusual features. It is squeezed in next to the New York Connecting Railroad, and the two tracks are on different levels—the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs. The southbound track sits on a low elevated structure, guarded by a tall fence, with a panoramic view of Most Holy Trinity Cemetery. The northbound track is immediately below, and the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level. There are no stairs leading to the station entrance, which is in a dead-end at the foot of Wilson Avenue, just east of Moffat Street. A concrete wall closes off the east side of the lower level; the shed on the upper level runs the entire length of the platform. The mosaic band is predominantly green at edges with a vivid multicolored design throughout, twenty-eight colors in all. The trackside wall once had tiles that matched those of the platform, but sometime after 1982, these tiles were removed.

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?203:3042|BMT Canarsie Line|Wilson Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ltrain.htm L train]