Wilson Avenue station

Wilson Avenue opened on July 14, 1928, as part of an extension of the Canarsie Line. This extension, done as part of the Dual Contracts, connected Montrose Avenue, which had opened four years earlier, to Broadway Junction, which was the western end of the already-operating elevated line to Canarsie. The station opened next to the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, making the eastbound platform overlook the pre-existing cemetery. On September 21, 1984, Irma Lozada, a New York City Transit Police officer, was murdered at an abandoned lot south of the station. Lozada was part of the Plain Clothes Anti-Crime unit when she was gunned down by Darryl Jeter, a chain snatcher that took her service gun as she attempted to arrest him for stealing a necklace from a rider. Lozada was the first female police officer to be killed in action in New York City. In the 2010s, a ramp was built from the Wilson Avenue entrance to the ground-level Manhattan-bound platform for $3–5 million, making it accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). At the time, the elevated Canarsie-bound platform was not proposed to get ADA access since it would be much more costly to add an elevator up to the Canarsie-bound level. As part of its 2025–2029 Capital Program, the MTA has proposed making the station wheelchair-accessible for the southbound platform as well, in compliance with the ADA. Plans for the Interborough Express, a light rail line using the Bay Ridge Branch right of way, were announced in 2023. As part of the project, a light rail station at Wilson Avenue has been proposed next to the existing subway station. ==Station layout==

The station, which was designed by Robert Ridgway and Squire J. Vickers, Since the platforms are on different levels, each has a different design. The outbound track sits on a low elevated structure; immediately south of the station, the outbound track passes over Central Avenue before descending into a tunnel toward Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street. The inbound track is immediately below the outbound track, and this portion of the station gives the impression of being underground, but it is really at street level. The Rockaway Parkway-bound (upper level) platform has a canopy along the entire length of the platform, supported by a beige concrete retaining wall with curved green supports extending from the wall at regular intervals. A fence runs along the track side of the southbound platform, separating the subway station from the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, which is visible directly through the fence. There are five steps leading up to the station entrance, The entrance feeds directly onto the northbound platform with stairs to southbound service on the upper level. == References ==