Hewes Street (BMT Jamaica Line)

Hewes Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Northbound platform
Station statistics
Address Hewes Street & Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Williamsburg
Coordinates 40°42′24″N 73°57′11″W / 40.706669°N 73.953009°W / 40.706669; -73.953009Coordinates: 40°42′24″N 73°57′11″W / 40.706669°N 73.953009°W / 40.706669; -73.953009
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Jamaica Line
Services       J  (all times except weekdays 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., peak direction)
      M  (all times except late nights)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: B46
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3
Other information
Opened June 25, 1888 (1888-06-25)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 981,379[2] Increase 8.6%
Rank 367 out of 422
Station succession

Preceding station   New York City Subway   Following station
toward Broad Street
BMT Jamaica Line
(local)
J  M 

Hewes Street is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Hewes Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction and the M train at all times except late nights.

Station layout

Track layout
Legend
to Lorimer St
to Marcy Av
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Westbound local[3] ← toward Broad Street all times except AM rush hours (Marcy Avenue)
← toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue weekdays, Essex Street weekends (Marcy Avenue)
Peak-direction express ← does not stop here →
Eastbound local[3] → toward Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer all times except PM rush hours (Lorimer Street) →
→ toward Metropolitan Avenue except late nights (Lorimer Street) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent
G Street Level Exit / Entrance
Manhattan-bound R32 train bypassing this station

This elevated station, built four stories above street level and opened on June 25, 1888,[1] has two side platforms and three tracks. The center track is used by J and Z trains weekdays in peak direction. Each platform has beige windscreens, green canopies, and red roofs that run from end to end.

The exit to Hewes Street at the east (railroad south) end of the station is now an emergency exit and its station house has been removed. From each platform, a single staircase goes down to Broadway, the northbound platform to the south side of Broadway, and the southbound one to the northeast corner of Hewes Street, Broadway, and New Montrose Avenue;[4] Hewes Street is split at separate intersections with Broadway.[5] The Hewes Street exits were closed in the 1980s due to high crime.[4][6][7]

The station's only active entrance is at the west (railroad north) end of the station. Each platform has a single staircase leading to the elevated station house beneath the tracks. It has a turnstile bank and token booth. Outside of fare control, two staircases lead to the western corners of Broadway and Hooper Street.[5] Each staircase landing has an exit-only turnstile to allow passengers to exit without having to go through the station house.

The artwork here is called El in 16 Notes by Mara Held. It features sixteen panels of art glass, each containing random geometric shapes and is based on shapes found in dress patterns.

References

  1. 1 2 ‹The template Cite BDE is being considered for deletion.› "The Broadway Line Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. June 25, 1888. p. 6.
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  3. 1 2 This is a wrong-way concurrency in railroad direction.
  4. 1 2 Muessig, Ben; Foretek, Jared; Geis, Shannon (August 24, 2009). "MTA still has no 'Hewes' for station entrances". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  5. 1 2 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Williamsburg & Bedford-Stuyvesant" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Harshbarger, Rebecca; De La Hoz, Felipe (October 12, 2015). "Williamsburg, Bushwick subway entrances sealed despite ridership spike". AM New York. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Closed subway entrances". WNYC (AM). October 31, 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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