Eighth Avenue station
The Eighth Avenue station is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 62nd Street.Photo: GeneralPunger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Metro station
- Description: New York City BMT Sea Beach Line subway station
- Also known as: “8 Av”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza.
Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Church
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and Marian shrine in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Mother of Perpetual Succour. Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is situated 1,900 feet northwest of Eighth Avenue station.
Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza
Park
Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza is a 0.853-acre plaza located at the intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway, 58th Street and 10th Avenue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, New York. Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza is situated 2,100 feet east of Eighth Avenue station.
Fort Hamilton Parkway station
Metro station
Photo: GeneralPunger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fort Hamilton Parkway station is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway, located in Borough Park, Brooklyn at the intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 62nd Street. Fort Hamilton Parkway station is situated 2,200 feet southeast of Eighth Avenue station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bay Ridge and Southwest Brooklyn.
Bay Ridge
Neighborhood
Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base and the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge to the south.
Southwest Brooklyn
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Southwest Brooklyn is a part of Brooklyn, New York City that encompasses the neighborhoods of Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Kensington, Parkville, and Sunset Park.
Sunset Park
Neighborhood
Photo: GK tramrunner229, CC BY 3.0.
Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west.
Eighth Avenue station
- Categories: station located in a cut, railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.63506° or 40° 38′ 6″ northLongitude
-74.01172° or 74° 0′ 42″ westInception
1915Operator
New York City Transit AuthorityNetwork
NYC SubwayOpen location code
87G7JXPQ+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 1683712509OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q2563370
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Eighth Avenue station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “第八大道車站”
- Dutch: “8th Avenue”
- Esperanto: “Stacio Oka Avenuo”
- French: “8ème Avenue”
- French: “Eighth Avenue”
- Italian: “Eighth Avenue”
- Japanese: “8番街駅 (BMTシー・ビーチ線)”
- Japanese: “8番街駅”
- Polish: “Eighth Avenue”
- Russian: “Восьмая авеню”
- Spanish: “Octava Avenida”
- Ukrainian: “8-ма авеню”
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