The sales office was converted to railroad use and "debuted as a transit station" on August 23, 1907,and was renamed "Avenue H". In this same time frame, the Brighton Beach Line was rebuilt as a four-track railroad and regraded from Church Avenue to Sheepshead Bay. This rebuilding placed the Avenue H station at the transition point between the open cut to the north and the embankment to the south. after which the railway was to pass over the Bay Ridge Branch and the nearby Manhattan Beach Junction station; previously, the line crossed underneath the Bay Ridge Branch. With the station house on the surface, the station remained open during the regrading project.
