Wilson Avenue
R143 L train departing the southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Wilson Avenue & Moffat Street Brooklyn, New York
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bushwick
Coordinates	40°41′19″N73°54′16″W / 40.6885°N 73.9044°W /40.6885; -73.9044
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Canarsie Line
Services	L  (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus:B60
Structure	Elevated (southbound) covered at-grade (northbound)
Levels	2
Platforms	2splitside platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks	2 (1 on each level)
Other information
Opened	July 14, 1928; 97 years ago (1928-07-14)
Accessible	PartiallyADA-accessible; accessibility to rest of station planned (northbound only, southbound planned)
Traffic
2024	981,068[2]  3%
Rank	296 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Halsey Street towardEighth Avenue Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street towardCanarsie–Rockaway Parkway
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend Upper level LIRRBay Ridge Branch (toNYCR) to Fresh Pond Junction andHell Gate Bridge formerLIRREvergreen Branch fromHalsey Street toBushwick Ave–Aberdeen St LIRRBay Ridge Branch toBay Ridge Railroad Subway Lower level toHalsey Street fromBushwick Ave–Aberdeen St
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.	05000681[3]
Added to NRHP	July 6, 2005[4]

TheWilson Avenue station is astation on theBMT Canarsie Line of theNew York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Moffat Street inBrooklyn, it is served by theL train at all times.

Wilson Avenue opened on July 14, 1928, as part of an extension of the Canarsie Line. This extension, done as part of theDual Contracts, connectedMontrose Avenue, which had opened four years earlier, toBroadway Junction, which was the western end of the already-operating elevated line toCanarsie.^[5] The station opened next to the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, making the eastbound platform overlook the pre-existing cemetery.^[6]

On September 21, 1984,Irma Lozada, aNew York City Transit Police officer, was murdered at an abandoned lot south of the station. Lozada was part of the Plain Clothes Anti-Crime unit when she was gunned down by Darryl Jeter, a chain snatcher that took her service gun as she attempted to arrest him for stealing a necklace from a rider. Lozada was the first female police officer to bekilled in action in New York City.^[7]

In the 2010s, a ramp was built from the Wilson Avenue entrance to the ground-level Manhattan-bound platform for $3–5 million, making it accessible under theAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). At the time, the elevated Canarsie-bound platform was not proposed to get ADA access since it would be much more costly to add an elevator up to the Canarsie-bound level.^[8] As part of its 2025–2029 Capital Program, the MTA has proposed making the station wheelchair-accessible for the southbound platform as well, in compliance with the ADA.^[9]

Plans for theInterborough Express, alight rail line using theBay Ridge Branch right of way, were announced in 2023.^[10] As part of the project, a light rail station at Wilson Avenue has been proposed next to the existing subway station.^[11][12]

Second floor	Eastbound	→ towardCanarsie–Rockaway Parkway(Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street) →
	Side platform
Ground	Westbound	← towardEighth Avenue(Halsey Street)
	Side platform
	Street level	Station house, entrance/exit, fare control, station agent Wheelchair ramp at dead-end of Wilson Avenue east of Moffat Street for northbound trains only

The station, which was designed byRobert Ridgway andSquire J. Vickers,^[3] has some features that are not found elsewhere in the system.^[13] It is squeezed in between the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, to the east, and theLong Island Rail Road's (LIRR)Bay Ridge Branch, to the west. The two tracks and twoside platforms are ondifferent levels, making Wilson Avenue the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs.^[13] Since the platforms are on different levels, each has a different design. The outbound track sits on a low elevated structure; immediately south of the station, the outbound track passes over Central Avenue before descending into a tunnel towardBushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street. The inbound track is immediately below the outbound track, and this portion of the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level.^[13][14] Fixed platform barriers, which are intended to prevent commuters falling to the tracks, are positioned near the platform edges.^[15][16]

The Rockaway Parkway-bound (upper level) platform has acanopy along the entire length of the platform, supported by a beige concreteretaining wall with curved green supports extending from the wall at regular intervals.^[13][14] A fence runs along the track side of the southbound platform, separating the subway station from the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, which is visible directly through the fence.^[13][14] The Manhattan-bound (lower level) platform has tiling and name plaques, which is typical for a Canarsie Line underground station. A concrete wall closes off the east side of the lower level.^[13] The mosaic band is predominantly green at edges with a vivid multicolored design throughout, 28 colors in all. The trackside wall once had tiles that matched those of the platform, but these tiles were removed sometime after 1982, and the trackside wall is currently the same plain, dark color as a typical New York City Subway tunnel wall.^[13][14]

There is one entrance and exit to the station, which is in a dead-end at the foot of Wilson Avenue, just east of Moffat Street.^[17] There are five steps leading up to the station entrance,^[13][14] as well as a accessible ramp.^[18] The entrance feeds directly onto the northbound platform with stairs to southbound service on the upper level.^[13][14]

• Stookey, Lee (1994).Subway ceramics : a history and iconography of mosaic and bas relief signs and plaques in the New York City subway system. Brattleboro, Vt: L. Stookey.ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0.OCLC 31901471.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toWilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line).

• nycsubway.org –BMT Canarsie: Wilson Avenue
• Station Reporter —"L Train".stationreporter.net. Archived fromthe original on June 30, 2013.
• The Subway Nut —Wilson Avenue Pictures
• Wilson Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Upper platform from Google Maps Street View (Daytime)
• Upper platform from Google Maps Street View (Evening)
• Lower platform from Google Maps Street View

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