View Before and After Photos of Re-New-vated Station

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced crews completed restorative renovations of the Kings Highway  subway station in Gravesend, Brooklyn. This work is part of New York City Transit (NYCT)’s Re-NEW-vation program, which utilizes planned weekend service outages to perform upgrades, repairs, and enhanced cleaning in stations within a 55-hour window, providing customers with overhauled stations when service interruptions end on Mondays.

Over the last weekend while work continued to modernize signals on the Culver Line from Church Av to West 8 St stations, resulting in service disruptions at Kings Highway station, transit workers removed outdated signage, stripped and repainted ceilings, walls, and columns, and replaced emergency lighting fixtures.

“Gravesend customers started their week with a cleaner, brighter, and more welcoming station,” said NYC Transit President Richard Davey. “While trains didn’t serve Kings Highway this weekend due to ongoing work installing modern signaling on the  Line, we took the opportunity to enhance the entire station environment, bringing tangible improvements to the customer experience as we seek to deliver faster, cleaner, and safer service.”

Kings Highway Station is the 32nd station to be enhanced. Re-New-vations are coming to Queens next week with Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer station on the  line. In total, NYCT plans to complete 50 “re-new-vations" by the end of the year.

About the Station Re-NEW-vation Program
The Station Re-NEW-vation Program is one of the major initiatives in New York City Transit’s Faster, Cleaner and Safer plan to improve the subway customer experience. The program was initiated with a soft launch over the summer of 2022 on the  line in the Bronx, including deep cleaning and renovating components of nine stations along that line, while stations were closed for state of good repair work underway in tunnels. Cleanliness is one of the top five attributes customers cite in surveys that would improve satisfaction and encourage increased ridership. In response, NYC Transit developed this program integrating renovations into planned station outages.