Named after 69th Street, which was Fisk Avenue until the 1920s.
The station is also known as 69th Street–Fisk Avenue. Forgotten New York tells of Almond Fisk, a stove maker who devised a metal coffin; in the 1840s he and his father-in-law Henry Raymond built a factory in an area soon to be known as Winfield. The foundry, at Fisk Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard, closed in 1889. Fisk Avenue was renamed 69th Street in the 1920s.