Halsey Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
Halsey Street | ||||||||||||||||
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New York City Subway rapid transit station | ||||||||||||||||
Northbound platform | ||||||||||||||||
Station statistics | ||||||||||||||||
Address |
Halsey Street & Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11211 | |||||||||||||||
Borough | Brooklyn | |||||||||||||||
Locale | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°41′08″N 73°54′56″W / 40.685682°N 73.915458°WCoordinates: 40°41′08″N 73°54′56″W / 40.685682°N 73.915458°W | |||||||||||||||
Division | B (BMT) | |||||||||||||||
Line | BMT Jamaica Line | |||||||||||||||
Services | J (all times) | |||||||||||||||
Transit connections | NYCT Bus: B7, B26, Q24 | |||||||||||||||
Structure | Elevated | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | August 19, 1885[1] | |||||||||||||||
Traffic | ||||||||||||||||
Passengers (2015) | 2,083,683[2] 5.8% | |||||||||||||||
Rank | 240 out of 422 | |||||||||||||||
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Halsey Street is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Halsey Street and Broadway at the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick, Brooklyn, it is served at all times by the J train while the Z bypasses this station when it operates.
Station layout
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Southbound local | ← toward Broad Street (Kosciuszko Street AM rush hours, Gates Avenue other times) ← does not stop here | |
Peak-direction express | → No regular service | |
Northbound local | → toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Broadway Junction PM rush hours, Chauncey Street other times) → → does not stop here → | |
M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent |
G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
This elevated station, opened on August 19, 1885, has two side platforms and three tracks; the center express track is not used in regular service. Both platforms have beige windscreens and green canopies and support columns with red roofs along the entire length except for a small section at either ends, where they have high mesh fences instead. The station signs are in the black name plates in white Helvetica lettering.
This station has one active, elevated station house below the platforms and tracks at the service north (geographic southeast) end. A staircase from each platform goes down to a balcony that leads inside to a waiting area/crossunder, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to either northern side of Broadway at Halsey Street. Both balconies have an exit-only turnstile that allows passengers to exit without having to go through the station house.
There is another now-closed station house at the service south (geographical northwest) end of the station with its staircases intact. They go down to either southern side of Broadway at Jefferson Avenue. This entrance was closed in the 1980s due to high crime.[3][4]
The 2008 artwork here is called SOL'SCRYPT by SOL'SAX. It consists of glass mosaic panels on the platform windscreens and station house depicting various images of African-American heritage.
References
- ↑ ‹The template Cite BDE is being considered for deletion.› "Halsey Street Station Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. August 19, 1885. p. 4.
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ↑ Harshbarger, Rebecca; De La Hoz, Felipe (October 12, 2015). "Williamsburg, Bushwick subway entrances sealed despite ridership spike". AM New York. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ "Closed subway entrances". WNYC (AM). October 31, 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
External links
- nycsubway.org – BMT Jamaica Line: Halsey Street
- Station Reporter — J train
- The Subway Nut — Halsey Street Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Halsey Street (BMT Jamaica Line)
- Halsey Street entrance from Google Maps Street View