62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn (D/N trains)
At the corner of Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Dyker Heights
Borough: Brooklyn
Neighborhood: Border of Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Dyker Heights
Train line(s): D, N
The 62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station is located at the corner of three neighborhoods. Borough Park, home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the world outside of Israel, lies to the north. To the southwest lies Dyker Heights, a majority Italian-American neighborhood famous for their yearly Christmas lights display. And to the southeast lies Bensonhurst, a historically Italian neighborhood now home to several large ethnic enclaves. According to a 2023 city report , more than half of Bensonhurst’s residents are foreign born. The city’s largest concentration of immigrants from Hong Kong reside in the neighborhood, as well as the city’s second-largest Cantonese population.
The 62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue connects the underground D train with the elevated N train. The two lines end together at Coney Island. Back in the day, a rail station known as Bath Junction existed near the current station and connected the New York & Sea Beach Railway (now part of the N train) with the Brooklyn, Bath Coney Island Railroad (now part of the D train). Later on, both lines were rebuilt by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, later known as the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT). Under the dual contracts of 1913, the station was improved and a new elevated line was built over New Utrecht Avenue.
62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue station was originally part of Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), which merged with the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) and Independent Subway System (IND) in 1940 to form the subway system as we know it today.