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| Address | Fort Hamilton Parkway & Prospect Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11218 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Windsor Terrace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IND Culver Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | F (all times) G (all times) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | October 7, 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 1,509,737[1]\ 2.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 286 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | 15th Street – Prospect Park: F G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | Church Avenue: closed for construction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fort Hamilton Parkway is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the F and G trains at all times.
There are two local tracks and two side platforms. The unused express tracks are beneath the station and not visible from the platforms.
The full-time, northern entrance is by Greenwood and Prospect Avenues, with two street staircases and a block-long passageway to Reeve Place for one additional street staircase. There is a closed staircase that would have led to a fare control area at platform level at the Manhattan-bound side. This area is gated shut, and about half of the space is taken by station facilities with additional tiles.
The south end exit is to Fort Hamilton Parkway and has full-time HEET access and a former booth. The only exit at this end is a ramp (no staircase) that runs along the western side of the Prospect Expressway, up and down a small hill. This exit replaced the original 1933 staircase exit, when Robert Moses built the expressway. From the mezzanine area, one can see the variation in tile colors and styles when the new entrance was added in 1962, coinciding with the opening of the expressway. This can be seen when facing the ramp.
South of this station, on the express tracks on the lower level, there are bellmouths for a proposed Fort Hamilton Parkway line. One line would have terminated at 86th Street, and the other line would split away from the mainline, and would have run to Staten Island. These lines were planned as part of the IND Second System.
Both Church Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway stations on this line were the last underground stations to get fluorescent lighting on platform level, which replaced the incandescent lighting in 1987.
All Coney Island and Church Avenue-bound trains skip this station due to reconstruction.