Named after 55th Street, the southern end of Borough Park’s Thirteenth Avenue strip.
The station sits where 55th Street meets 13th Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue. Thirteenth Avenue, a commercial strip about a mile long from 39th to 55th Streets, has storefronts supplying Jewish households. The neighbourhood’s name dates from 1902, when State Senator William H. Reynolds bought the land northeast of Blythebourne and the new area was named Borough Park.