B’klyn Heights subway station closing for 4 months

New Yorkers who use Brooklyn Heights’ Clark St. subway station will need to take a hike for at least four months.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it will shut down the stop on Nov. 3 “until spring 2022” to replace several aging elevators at the station, which does not have stairs for riders to access the platform below.

But the elevator work doesn’t mean the station will be wheelchair-accessible.

The elevators currently let out at the mezzanine, and riders need to use a set of stairs to get to the platforms. Their replacement will not include a connection that enables riders in wheelchairs to access the platform, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said Sunday.

“The station is not being made ADA-accessible through this work,” said Donovan, referring to the Americans With Disabilities Act. “This is a deep-station elevator replacement project for the current elevators which have reached the end of their useful life.”

Clark St., which serves the Nos. 2 and 3 lines, recorded roughly 5,500 turnstile entries per day before the pandemic, but just 1,700 per day last year, MTA data shows.

The work to replace the elevators is bundled into a larger $61 million project that also includes replacing lifts at the Upper East Side’s 63rd St. station on the F and Q lines and the Court St. station on the R line.

“The plan to replace all three elevators at Clark St. simultaneously reduces the length of construction time and minimizes the impact that this disruption will cause for our riders,” said Acting MTA Chairman Janno Lieber.

Transit officials advised the outage on Friday, and told affected riders to instead use the nearby Borough Hall or High St. stations. The Nos. 2 and 3 line tracks are fully ADA-accessible at Borough Hall, but only the Manhattan-bound platforms on the Nos. 4 and 5 lines are accessible to riders in wheelchairs.

High St. has no ramps or elevators on its platform.