New York MTA completes Kings Highway station accessibility upgrades

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has completed a $72 million project to make the MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) Kings Highway F Line subway station in southern Brooklyn fully accessible.

The project called for the installation of three new elevators. One elevator connects the street with the mezzanine, while two additional elevators connect the mezzanine with the Manhattan-bound and Coney Island-bound platforms, said MTA officials in a press release.

Crews also expanded and reconfigured the mezzanine, reconstructed the accessible boarding areas, installed a new roofing system, new lighting and a new fire alarm system, and completed concrete repairs. They added a new station agent booth, two new exit gates and Help Points, as well as security cameras at the turnstiles and intercoms inside the elevators. The design-build team for the project includes Halmar and Forte, and the elevators were manufactured and installed by Otis.

"With Kings Highway now completed, we’re pushing 50 new ADA subway stations added to the map since 2020," said MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber. "That’s more ADA projects completed or in construction than in the previous three decades of the ADA era. By the end of the current Capital Plan, 70% of all subway rides will start or end at an accessible station – huge progress."

Kings Highway station opened in 1919 as the original southern terminal of the Culver Line. The elevated station has two island platforms and three tracks. It is the fifth newly accessible station completed under the MTA's $692 million ADA Package 3, which funds eight full-station accessibility projects.

Work is underway at the Steinway St. M and R lines station and the Junius St. 3 line station, MTA officials said.