Kings Highway station
The Kings Highway station is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at Kings Highway between East 15th and East 16th Streets on the border of Midwood and Homecrest neighborhoods of Brooklyn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Metro station
- Description: New York City BMT Brighton Line subway station
- Also known as: “Kings Highway” and “Kings Hwy”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead and Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital.
Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead
Photo: Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead in Flatlands, Brooklyn, New York City, is a National Historic Landmark. It is believed to have been built before 1766. During the American Revolution it housed Hessian soldiers, two of whom, Captain Toepfer of the Ditfourth regiment and Lieut. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead is situated 2,000 feet northeast of Kings Highway station.
Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
Hospital
Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, formerly New York Community Hospital is a 134 bed community hospital in Brooklyn, NY that was founded in 1929 by two brothers, both doctors. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital is situated 3,200 feet northeast of Kings Highway station.
Avenue M station
Metro station
Photo: Brooklynl, Public domain.
The Avenue M station, is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in Midwood, Brooklyn, at Avenue M between East 15th and East 16th Streets. The station is served by the Q train at all times. Avenue M station is situated 3,400 feet north of Kings Highway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midwood and Gravesend.
Midwood
Neighborhood
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Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway.
Gravesend
Neighborhood
Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
Sheepshead Bay
Neighborhood
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Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in southern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bounded by Ocean Parkway to the west; Kings Highway to the north; Nostrand Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue to the east; and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
Kings Highway station
- Categories: station located on surface, railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.60867° or 40° 36′ 31″ northLongitude
-73.95773° or 73° 57′ 28″ westOperator
New York City Transit AuthorityNetwork
NYC SubwayOpen location code
87G8J25R+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2013879311OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q2502126
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Kings Highway station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “金斯公路車站”
- Dutch: “Kings Highway”
- Esperanto: “Stacio Reĝa Ŝoseo”
- French: “Kings Highway”
- Italian: “Kings Highway”
- Japanese: “キングス・ハイウェイ駅 (BMTブライトン線)”
- Japanese: “キングス・ハイウェイ駅”
- Polish: “Kings Highway”
- Russian: “Кингс-Хайвей”
- Spanish: “Kings Highway”
- Ukrainian: “Кінгс-Хайвей”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kings Convenience Corporation and Planet Fitness.
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