{"id":325322,"date":"2026-08-19T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325322\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:10:54","slug":"mta-unveils-new-elevators-at-now-ada-accessible-kings-highway-brooklyn-f-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325322\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA unveils new elevators at now ADA accessible Kings Highway Brooklyn F train station"},"content":{"rendered":"

F train<\/a> riders with mobility disabilities finally have a station where they can access the subway system along the sizable stretch between the Church Av and Coney Island-Stillwell Av stops.<\/p>\n

The MTA on Wednesday celebrated the addition of three new elevators to the Kings Highway F station \u2014 making the elevated stop the latest that was brought into compliance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act<\/a>. The station sits in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, where riders can connect to the B82 bus as well as its Select Bus Service counterpart.<\/p>\n

One of the new elevators connects the mezzanine to the street level, while each one of the other two link it to the Coney Island and Manhattan-bound platforms respectively.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cKings Highway now has three brand-new elevators up and running,\u201d MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said during a Wednesday morning news conference inside the station. \u201cIt is great news for the thousands and thousands of riders who pass through here every day on the F train, which is the heart of this part of Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lieber said that due to the station being 107 years old, it was \u201cpretty difficult\u201d to carry out the $72 million construction project.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn stations this old, you don\u2019t have enough room for dropping all of the elevators in,\u201d he said. \u201cThe structure, when we uncover it, usually is eroded and in challenging shape. So it means that there is a lot of work in addition to dropping in the elevators that\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The additional work included expanding and reconfiguring the mezzanine, redoing the roof, reconstructing the platforms\u2019 accessible boarding areas, and installing new lighting and fire alarm systems, according to the MTA.<\/p>\n

During the event, Quemuel Arroyo, the MTA\u2019s chief accessability officer, said making more of the subways accessible is beneficial to all riders, not just those with disabilities. He said seniors, parents pushing strollers, or anyone with an injury could end up relying on them.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery New Yorker should have access to a reliable, a safe, and an accessible transport system,\u201d Arroyo said. \u201cBecause it\u2019s not only people with disabilities, it\u2019s everyday New Yorkers who sometimes are too tired or don\u2019t want to go up stairs or may have sprained their ankle. The disability community is the only minority demographic that anybody can join at any moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stop is the fifth that the MTA has completed work on in its latest $692 million package of eight station accessibility projects, according to the agency. Two other stations in the package, the Steinway St R and M station in Queens and the Junius St 3 station in Brooklyn, are already under construction.<\/p>\n

Lieber touted the suite of projects as being the first where the agency has utilized a public-private partnership in which private firms pay for the construction work upfront and the MTA reinburses them once it is completed and found to meet agency standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an approach that saves us and the taxpayers a ton of money in the long-run,\u201d Lieber said.\n<\/p>\n

After years of lagging far behind on installing elevators in stations, the MTA has very much picked up the pace.<\/a> The shift came in earnest after the agency settled a lawsuit<\/a> by a group of disability advocates over its lack of compliance with the ADA in 2023.<\/p>\n

Over the past six years, the agency has made 46 stations ADA accessible, it says. Another 35 stations are currently under construction and another 60 are set to get elevators under the MTA\u2019s current $68 billion 2025 to 2029 Capital Plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the same number of ADA projects complete or in construction in the last few years and right now equivilent to what was done in the 30 years before that,\u201d Lieber said. \u201cThat is real progress and proof of our committment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F train riders with mobility disabilities finally have a station where they can access the subway system along…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30678,102312,31529,122512,141,122513,31847,9,24,63,122,124,123,38662,110653],"class_list":["post-325322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-ada","tag-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-f-train","tag-kings-highway-f-train-station","tag-mta","tag-mta-elevators","tag-mta-chair-and-ceo-janno-lieber","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-quemeuel-arroyo","tag-station-accessability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}