Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)

Wilson Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Wilson Avenue & Moffat Street Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bushwick
Coordinates	40°41′18″N 73°54′15″W / 40.688416°N 73.904257°W / 40.688416; -73.904257Coordinates: 40°41′18″N 73°54′15″W / 40.688416°N 73.904257°W / 40.688416; -73.904257
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Canarsie Line
Services	L  (all times)
Structure	Elevated (southbound) covered at-grade (northbound)
Levels	2
Platforms	2 side platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks	2 (1 on each level)
Other information
Opened	December 14, 1928 (1928-12-14)
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,393,045[1]  12%
Rank	316 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	Halsey Street: L
Next south	Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street: L
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekdays only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekends and weekend late nights Stops weekdays and weekday late nights Stops weekdays only Stops weekends only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)
Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference #	05000681[2]
Added to NRHP	July 6, 2005

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 L train at all times.

Station layout

Southbound (2F)	→ toward Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway (Bushwick Avenue – Aberdeen Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound (1F)	← toward 14th Street – Eighth Avenue (Halsey Street)
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
G	Street Level	Fare control, entrance/exit

Street entrance

The station's design has some unusual features. It is squeezed in next to the New York Connecting Railroad and the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch, and the two tracks and two side platforms are on different levels—the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs. The southbound side sits on a low elevated structure, guarded by a tall fence, with a panoramic view of Most Holy Trinity Cemetery. The northbound side is immediately below, and the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level. There are just three steps leading up to the station entrance, which is in a dead-end at the foot of Wilson Avenue, just east of Moffat Street. The entrance feeds directly onto the northbound platform with stairs to southbound service on the upper level. 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.

References

Further reading

• Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0

External links

Media related to Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org—BMT Canarsie Line: Wilson Avenue
• Station Reporter — L train
• The Subway Nut — Wilson Avenue Pictures
• Wilson Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

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