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The collapse of a marquee above an entrance to the Clark Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights on Sunday morning was just the latest chapter in the transit hub’s rough and rowdy history.

The station’s entrance is inside the lobby of the old Hotel St. George, which installed the now-doomed awning. The Department of Buildings said some of the steel beams supporting the structure had completely corroded. A second marquee above the station’s other entrance also showed signs of poor maintenance, prompting

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