Avenue H station

Avenue H
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
View of northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Avenue H & East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Midwood, Flatbush, Fiske Terrace
Coordinates	40°37′48″N 73°57′43″W / 40.630003°N 73.962016°W / 40.630003; -73.962016
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	Q  (all times)
Structure	Embankment / At-Grade
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	April 26, 1897
Accessible	ADA-accessible
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Former/other names	Fiske Terrace
Traffic
2023	646,824[2]  7.1%
Rank	354 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Newkirk Plaza toward 96th Street Local Avenue J toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue does not stop here
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Newkirk Plaza to Avenue J
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
New York City Landmark
Official name	Avenue H Station House
Designated	June 29, 2004[3]
Reference no.	2158

The Avenue H station is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at Avenue H between East 15th and East 16th Streets near the border of Midwood and Flatbush, Brooklyn. The station is served by the Q train at all times.^[4]

The Avenue H station was opened on or around April 26, 1897 as Fiske Terrace, a two-track surface station serving the new planned community of Fiske Terrace in Midwood, Brooklyn. It served the Kings County Elevated Railway and then the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). The station house serving the northbound platform, built in 1906 as a sales office for Fiske Terrace, was converted to a passenger facility shortly afterward when the station was substantially rebuilt in 1907. The Avenue H station became part of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) system in 1923 and the New York City Transit system in 1940. It was renovated in the first decade of the 21st century.

The Avenue H station contains two side platforms and four tracks; express trains use the inner two tracks to bypass the station. The platforms sit on an embankment slightly above ground level and crosses above the Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. There is a station house adjacent to each platform. The station house serving the northbound platform is a New York City designated landmark. Both platforms' station houses contain ramps from the street, which make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The southbound ramp was completed in September 2011; a ramp for the northbound platform was completed in June 2021.