High Street – Brooklyn Bridge (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

High Street – Brooklyn Bridge is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of High Street and Cadman Plaza East in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, it is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights.

This underground station, opened on June 24, 1933, has two tracks and one island platform. It is the northern-most Brooklyn station for the A and C trains. To the north, the IND Eighth Avenue Line enters the Cranberry Street Tunnel and passes under the East River into Manhattan. As a result, the station was built in a tube design.

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 area to the platform, presumably due to its depth of 70 feet (20 m) below the surface.^[3]

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.^[4]

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — IND 8th Avenue: High Street/Brooklyn Bridge
• Station Reporter — A Lefferts
• Station Reporter — A Rockaway
• Station Reporter — C Train
• The Subway Nut — High Street – Brooklyn Bridge Pictures
• Adams Street, west of Brooklyn Bridge Approach from Google Maps Street View
• Adams Street, east of Brooklyn Bridge Approach from Google Maps Street View