Norwood Avenue station

The Norwood Avenue station is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Norwood Avenue and Fulton Street in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn,^[4] it is served by the Z train during rush hours in peak direction and the J at all other times.^[5]

Norwood Avenue  ​
Manhattan-bound J train in 2019
Station statistics
Address	Norwood Avenue and Fulton Street Brooklyn, New York
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Cypress Hills
Coordinates	40.681582°N 73.879151°W / 40.681582; -73.879151
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Jamaica Line
Services	J  (all except rush hours, peak direction) ​   Z  (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit	NYCT Bus: Q24
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1893 (132 years ago) (1893-05-30)[2]
Accessible	not ADA-accessible; currently undergoing renovations for ADA access
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2024	468,898[3]  2.2%
Rank	394 out of 423[3]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Van Siclen Avenue Z  skip-stop Crescent Street J  ​Z  toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer Cleveland Street J  toward Broad Street
Former services Preceding station Brooklyn Rapid Transit Following station Cleveland Street toward Chambers Street Union Elevated Broadway Line Crescent Street toward 111th Street Woodhaven Junction 1898–1917 toward Rockaway Park
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Crescent Street to Cleveland Street
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops all times

History

This station was opened on May 30, 1893 as part of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad's four stop extension of the Lexington Avenue Line to Cypress Hills.^[2]

From July 18, 2005 to March 13, 2006 this station was closed for rehabilitation. As part of the rehabilitation project, the stairs were rehabilitated, the floors were renewed, major structural repairs were made, new canopies were installed, the area around the station booth was reconfigured, the platform edge strips were replaced, walls were replaced, and a high-quality public address system was installed.^[6][7] The renovation cost $8.40 million.^[8]

In 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.^[9] The MTA received $254 million from the Federal Transit Administration in 2023 for accessibility upgrades to four subway stations, including the Norwood Avenue station.^[10] Work on new elevators began in December 2024.^[11]

Station layout

Platform level	Westbound	← toward Broad Street (Cleveland Street) ← AM rush toward Broad Street (Van Siclen Avenue) ← AM rush does not stop here
	Island platform
	Eastbound	→ toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Crescent Street) → → PM rush toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Crescent Street) → → PM rush does not stop here →
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, MetroCard and OMNY machines
Ground	Street level	Entrances/exits

This elevated station has two tracks and one island platform.^[12] The platform has a short red canopy with green frames and support columns at the east (railroad north) end and silver lampposts and black station sign structures for the rest of the length.

The 2007 artwork here is called "Culture Swirl" by Margaret Lazetta, It consists of stained glass artwork of various images on the platform sign structures, as of March 2022, The artwork has been covered up with green pained wood for reasons unknown.^[13][14]

Joint service with the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch existed between Norwood Avenue and Crescent Street stations with a connection built at Chestnut Street in Brooklyn. This allowed BRT trains to access the Rockaways and Manhattan Beach while affording the LIRR a connection into Manhattan to the BRT terminal located at Park Row over the Brooklyn Bridge (this service predated the opening of the East River Tunnels to Penn Station). This service ended in 1917 when the United States Railroad Administration took over the LIRR, and classified different operating standards between rapid transit trains and regular heavy rail railroads such as the LIRR.^[15]: 59

Exit

The station's only entrance/exit is a station house connected to the platform at the extreme east end. It has a bank of three turnstiles, token booth, and one staircase going down to an elevated passageway beneath the tracks, where two staircases go down to either eastern corners of Norwood Avenue and Fulton Street.^[4]