Named after Hunters Point, which recalls British sea captain George Hunter.
The land was awarded in 1643 to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister, and later owned by Captain George Hunter, whose family farmed 210 acres here; by 1825 it was known as Hunter’s Point. In 1835 Eliphalet Nott and Neziah Bliss bought the Hunter family estate. The station stands on 49th Avenue, which here was formerly Hunters Point Avenue.