This extension, done as part of the Dual Contracts, connected Montrose Avenue, which had opened four years earlier, to Broadway Junction, which was the western end of the already-operating elevated line to Canarsie.

[5] On September 21, 1984, Irma Lozada, a New York City Transit Police officer, was murdered at an abandoned lot south of the station.

[6] In the 2010s, the ground-level Manhattan-bound platform was made accessible at a cost of between three and five million dollars under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) via the use of a ramp from the Wilson Avenue entrance.

[9] It is squeezed in between the Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, to the east, and the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Bay Ridge Branch, to the west.

The two tracks and two side platforms are on different levels, making Wilson Avenue the only station on the Canarsie Line where this occurs.