This station opened on June 22, 1915, along with the rest of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line.

[4][5] The station closed on July 16, 1956 for the reconstruction of the flying junction north of DeKalb Avenue to increase capacity for the entire BMT Division.

There was a plan to build a loop just north of this station to turn back Fourth Avenue local trains from 95th Street.

[14] Masstransiscope was again covered by graffiti during the complete subway shutdown during Hurricane Sandy[15] and again restored after that.

[9] Originally, Brand came up with a more ambitious plan using blown up photographs to create a virtual film strip–these would have been regularly swapped out.