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A view of Kings Highway from East 16th Street in 2006. Kings Highway is a broad avenue that curves about the southern part of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Its west end is at Bay Parkway and 78th Street. East of Ocean Avenue, the street is largely residential. It tracks eastward, then northeast, then north through Brooklyn and ...
A renovation of the Kings Highway station was funded as part of the MTA's 1980–1984 capital plan. [9] The MTA received a $106 million grant from the Urban Mass Transit Administration in October 1983; most of the grant would fund the renovation of eleven stations, [10] [11] including Kings Highway. [10]
The Kings Highway station 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 in Gravesend, Brooklyn. It is served by the N train at all times. During rush hours, several W trains also serve this station.
[2] [4] The line was operated as a branch of the Fifth Avenue Elevated line, with a free transfer at Ninth Avenue to the West End Line into the Fourth Avenue Subway. The opening of the line resulted in reduced travel times between Manhattan and Kings Highway. Construction on the line began in 1915, and cost a total of $3.3 million. [5] [6] [7] [8]
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The Sea Beach Line has a station at Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park Chinatown. A transfer to the West End Line is available at New Utrecht Avenue / 62nd Street. The IND Culver Line along McDonald Avenue, carrying the F and <F> trains, runs through the most northeastern end of Bensonhurst between the Bay Parkway and Kings Highway ...
[8] [9] [10] This station ceased being the line's terminal with the completion of the line to Coney Island on May 1, 1920. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] On October 30, 1954, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] this station began being served by IND D Concourse Express trains operating to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue as the connection between the IND South Brooklyn Line at Church ...
The initial section began at the Ninth Avenue station and ended at the Kings Highway station. [2] [4] The line was operated as a branch of the Fifth Avenue Elevated line, with a free transfer at Ninth Avenue to the West End Line into the Fourth Avenue Subway. The opening of the line resulted in reduced travel times between Manhattan and Kings ...