The High Street station, which is alternatively referred to as "Brooklyn Bridge Plaza" and "Cranberry Street",[REF][REF][REF] was part of a three-stop extension of the IND Eighth Avenue Line from Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan to Jay Street-Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn [REF].
The High Street station was the site of an attempted robbery of subway revenue on June 18, 1954, in which the unarmed perpetrator was fatally shot by one of the two armed transit employees collecting fares and already-used transfer slips from token booths [REF].