The Avenue H station is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at Avenue H between East 15th and East 16th Streets near the border of Midwood and Flatbush, Brooklyn. The station is served by the Q train at all times. The Avenue H station was opened on or around April 26, 1897 as Fiske Terrace, a two-track surface station serving the new planned community of Fiske Terrace in Midwood, Brooklyn. It served the Kings County Elevated Railway and then the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). The station house serving the northbound platform, built in 1906 as a sales office for Fiske Terrace, was converted to a passenger facility shortly afterward when the station was substantially rebuilt in 1907. The Avenue H station became part of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) system in 1923 and the New York City Transit system in 1940. It was renovated in the first decade of the 21st century. The Avenue H station contains two side platforms and four tracks; express trains use the inner two tracks to bypass the station. The platforms sit on an embankment slightly above ground level and crosses above the Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. There is a station house adjacent to each platform. The station house serving the northbound platform is a New York City designated landmark. Both platforms' station houses contain ramps from the street, which make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The southbound ramp was completed in September 2011; a ramp for the northbound platform was completed in June 2021. History Early history The Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway (BF&CI; now the BMT Brighton Line) opened in 1878. There was originally no station at the site of what is now Avenue H station. The nearest stations were South Midwood to the north and South Greenfield to the south, while Avenue H site did not have any station, though the railway passed below the nearby New York & Manhattan Beach Railway (now LIRR). The BF&CI was reorganized as the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad in 1887 and was subsequently leased by the Kings County Elevated Railway (KCER) in 1896. The KCER was subsumed into the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) by 1899. What is now the Avenue H station opened April 27, 1897 on land contributed by