Avenue H (BMT Brighton Line)

Infobox NYCS

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name = Avenue H
font_color = black
font_color_2 = black
bg_color = #FFC800
line = BMT Brighton Line
service = Brighton local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Brooklyn
open_year = 1907
north_station = Newkirk Avenue
north_line = BMT Brighton Line
north_service = Brighton local
south_station = Avenue J
south_line = BMT Brighton Line
south_service = Brighton local

Avenue H is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Avenue H between East 15th and East 16th Streets in the planned community of Fiske Terrace, Brooklyn, it is served by the NYCS service|Q train at all times. The campus of Brooklyn College is nearby.

There are four tracks and two side platforms. The The ~620 foot (~189m) platform accommodates full-length trains typically composed of eight 75 foot (22.86m) or ten 60 foot (18.29 m) cars. The station is located at a transitional point on the right-of-way. North of the station, the roadbed ramps down to an open-cut. South of the station, the line is on a raised earthen embankment. The station platforms are slightly above ground level.

Landmarked station house

The station was opened around 1900 as "Fiske Terrace," a two-track surface station serving the new planned community of Fiske Terrace in Midwood, Brooklyn. The station house, also known as the "headhouse", through which the station is entered, is a landmarked wood frame structure built in 1905 as a real estate office of the T.B. Ackerson Company to sell homes in the new community. It was converted to railroad use in 1907, at the same time that the station was renamed "Avenue H."

In 2003, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans to demolish the structure, citing its wood construction as a fire hazard. The community intervened, emphasizing the building's historic importance, architectural significance, connecting to the adjacent community and the fact that several other wooden station houses on the subway system had been given landmark status earlier.

On June 29, 2004, the station house was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. This allows renovations inside, but preserves the major structure and exterior. The contract to "restore the landmark station control house" as well as rehabilitation of the platforms and other stations structures was advertised for bids by the MTA for January 2007.

The official designation report describes the building:

In addition to the stationhouse, the station contains an extra Exit-Only on the southbound side leading to Avenue H (which is split in half due to the station's level), a passageway from the stationhouse to the southbound platform that contains a High Exit-Only Turnstile, and a tunnel underneath the line to allow pedestrians to walk from one side of Avenue H to the other.

Notes

ee also

*Transportation to Coney Island

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?193:572|BMT Brighton Line|Avenue H
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/qtrain.htm Q Train]
*Subway.com.ru — [http://subway.com.ru/ave_h/ Photos of: BMT Brighton Line:Avenue H]
* [http://thethirdrail.net/9912/index.htm "The Little Station in the Woods"] – Historical article about the station before it was landmarked.
* [http://www.thethirdrail.net/0708/index.html "Avenue H: Brooklyn Communities Save Their Landmark Station House"]