Fort Hamilton Parkway (F,G)

Fort Hamilton Parkway is a two side platform station on the four-tracked IND Culver Line. The express tracks are directly underneath the station here before, north of the station, they take a different, more direct path under Prospect Park, instead of fallowing the local tracks more circuitous route via 15 Street-Prospect Park. The station has a very unusual layout for its exits, there are only four currently open exits to the street from the station, but all lead to locations quite relatively far apart from one another because the station huddles the Prospect Expressway.

The station platforms have tiled over columns, an orange-yellow trim with a black boarder and Ft. Hamilton Pkwy written underneath it, and name tablets that are a light orange yellow boarder around white Ft. Hamilton Pkway text that is on a maroon colored background. Directional mosaics (towards exits and the station's platforms) are white text with this same colored background. The station by no means has a full-length mezzanine but has two tiny mezzanines at either end of the station both with free crossovers.

The mezzanine at the extreme southern end of the station has a single staircase up from each platform and a small, unstaffed fare control area with a pair of High Exit Turnstiles and one High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles. There was a part time token booth here until the early 2000s. The exit to street level is simply a short passageway that ramps up to an area next to a park, Greenwood Playground, right along the southern side of the Prospect Expressway and a bit of a walk to the closest street with Fort Hamilton Parkway that is above on a highway bridge.

The fully staffed fare control area is at the northern end of the platforms and is located on another very small mezzanine area with a single staircase down to each platform. To the west, with an extra wide staircase awkwardly and partially fenced off, is a streetstair up to the west side of Prospect Avenue just north of Greenwood Avenue, to the east, this mezzanine area leads to a long passageway. This passageway ends a short distance to the south where there is a closed fenced off staircase down to the Manhattan-bound platform where I guess there was once a very small on platform fare control area. Next to this closed staircase is an open streetstair up to the NE corner of Prospect Avenue and Greenwood Avenue. The mezzanine runs a full block north underground, leading to a streetstair at the SE corner of Reeve Place and Prospect Avenue. The passageway currently ends at a door but at one time used to split into two final passageways and continue to now closed and slabbed over exits to the NE corner of Reeve Place and Prospect Avenue, and to the west side of Prospect Avenue across from Reeve Place that ends at a T intersection.
Photos 1-26: June 9, 2009; 27 & 28: July 6, 2009

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The back of a CI-bound R46 F train stopped at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

Passengers make there way up to the exit staircase at the northern end of the Fort Hamilton Parkway Station.

Looking up the only exit staircase from the CI-bound platform to the small mezzanine level for the 24 hour booth Prospect Av/Greenwood Av exits at Fort Hamilton Parkway .

A mosaic sign for the Coney Island platform at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

A fully fenced off staircase on the northern mezzanine area at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

Approaching the small mezzanine area for the 24 hour booth at the northern end of the Fort Hamilton Parkway Station.

Getting closer to the turnstiles at Fort Hamilton Parkway that are across from the stations only token booth there at the Prospect Av/Greenwood Av end of the station.

Looking down the Manhattan-bound platform at Fort Hamilton Parkway as an F train enters the station.

R32 #3429 and the back of a R32 F train has closed its doors and prepares to leave Fort Hamilton Parkway.

Approaching the two High Entrance Turnstiles that provide the only way to enter the subway at the no longer staffed Fort Hamilton Parkway end of the station.

An old font sign for Exit and the Coney Island-bound platform at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

A High Exit Turnstile on the small mezzanine area for the Fort Hamilton Parkway Exit.

A mosaic sign for the Coney Island-bound platform at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

The staircase up from the Manhattan-bound platform for the exit to Fort Hamilton Parkway.

Looking up a short staircase down to the unstaffed fare control area at the Fort Hamilton end of the station.

Looking down a passageway to the small fare control area at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

The entrance to the subway from Fort Hamilton Parkway, its in a small area of parkland adjacent to the Prospect Expressway, not really near the surrounding community, the highway through was built after the station was.

A conventional entrance to Fort Hamilton Parkway at the other end of the station and on the other side of the Prospect Expressway and a bit of a ways from the other entrance.

Looking down a very long passageway that connects the entrance to Prospect Av and Reeve Place at Fort Hamilton Parkway.

The end of the long passageway to the Reeve Place exit at Fort Hamilton Parkway ends with a staircase up to street level.

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