Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)

Coordinates: 40°40′31″N 73°52′19″W / 40.6754°N 73.8719°W / 40.6754; -73.8719
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 Euclid Avenue
 
Q8
StructureUnderground
Platforms2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks4
Other information
OpenedNovember 28, 1948; 75 years ago (1948-11-28)
AccessibleThis station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ADA-accessible
Opposite-
direction
transfer		Yes
Traffic
20232,146,235[2] Increase 23.3%
Rank155 out of 423[2]
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
Broadway Junction
A all except late nights
toward Inwood–207th Street
Express 		Grant Avenue
A all times
toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue or Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
Shepherd Avenue
A late nights ​C all except late nights
toward 168th Street
Local 		Terminus
Location
Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line) is located in New York City Subway
Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)
Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line) is located in New York City
Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)
Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line) is located in New York
Euclid Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)
Track layout

Legend
to Broadway Junction
to Shepherd Avenue
to
Pitkin Yard
to Grant Avenue
Bumper blocks
Possible provision for
a 76th Street station
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only

The Euclid Avenue station is an express station on the

Lefferts Boulevard shuttle train from Ozone Park, Queens
.

Construction on the Euclid Avenue station started in 1938, but this part of the Fulton Street Line did not open until 1948. The Fulton Street Line was extended to the east in 1956, connecting to the

Grant Avenue
station. Elevators were installed at Euclid Avenue circa 2000.

The station has four tracks and two

Pitkin Yard
as well as to the Fulton Street Elevated. The tracks themselves dead-end after the Fulton Street elevated spur diverges.

History

Track wall tile caption and trim line

Euclid Avenue was part of a four-station extension of the Fulton Street subway along Pitkin Avenue, past its original planned terminus at

Pitkin Yard, began in late 1940.[7][8] On August 26, 1941, lightning from a severe thunderstorm damaged the temporary timber roofing over the construction site at Pitkin Avenue and Autumn Avenue just east of the station. The lighting also ruptured a gas main at the site creating a fire and causing damage to an adjacent building, while two automobiles fell into the exposed tunnel cavern.[9] Construction of the extension was halted in December 1942 due to material shortages caused by World War II.[6][7][10] At the time, the section of tunnel between Crystal Street and Grant Avenue was 96% complete. Other parts of the extension were more than 99% complete, but vital equipment had yet to be installed, precluding these stations' openings.[7]

Construction resumed on the extension in November 1946.

press buttons that automatically adjusted the corresponding switches. In older interlockings throughout the subway system, workers in a separate control tower had to manually adjust the switches using a series of levers within the tower.[7][14][15][16]

After several test runs, the station opened to the public in the early morning of November 28, 1948. It became the new terminal of the Fulton Street Line, replacing the former terminal at Broadway–East New York (now Broadway Junction).

Crescent Street stations, which closed on April 26, 1956 when the connection to the eastern Fulton elevated was opened.[7][19]

In 2002, the

ADA-accessible.[21][22]

Station layout

Ground Street level Exit/entrance
Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Disabled access Elevator at northeast corner of Euclid and Pitkin Avenues
Platform level Northbound local ← "C" train toward 168th Street (Shepherd Avenue)
← "A" train toward Inwood–207th Street late nights (Shepherd Avenue)
Island platform Disabled access
Northbound express ← "A" train toward Inwood–207th Street (Broadway Junction)
← "A" Shuttle train late night shuttle termination track
Southbound express → "A" train toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue, Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard or
Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street (Grant Avenue) →
→ "A" Shuttle train late night shuttle toward Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard (Grant Avenue) →
Island platform Disabled access
Southbound local → "C" train termination track →
→ "A" train toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights (Grant Avenue) →
Street staircase

This station has four tracks and two

Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard, one of the three southern termini of the daytime A train.[24]

The track walls have the same rectangular eggshell-beige wall tiles as the next three stations west, in contrast to the typical square white tiles seen in the rest of the IND.

mezzanine along with an active newsstand and elevators to both platforms.[26]

The station has a control tower at the eastern end of the southbound platform, which monitors trains between

Broadway Junction and the station, and controls the interlockings east of Euclid Avenue. The tower was the first in the subway system to use the "NX" or "Entrance-Exit" system. In this system, the tower utilizes a 12-foot (3.7 m) wide, 3.3-foot (1.0 m) tall electric light signal board which features a diagram of the nearby stations and track layout. It operates on direct current and consists of simple knobs and push buttons to control track switches, as opposed to the previous system which ran on alternating current and required a complicated series of levers.[14][15][16][27]

Exits

Stairways are present from each platform to the

B13 bus routes stop outside the station.[29]

East of the station

The next station east (

City Line, Brooklyn. However, an unfinished station is rumored to exist at 76th Street in nearby Ozone Park, Queens, just four blocks east of Grant Avenue.[17]
: 145–146 

Express tracks
The site of the planned station at 76th Street in Ozone Park, Queens

The track work near Euclid Avenue is intricate, allowing trains to enter the

a never-built system expansion which would have extended the Fulton Street Subway to the Rockaways and to Cambria Heights near the Queens-Nassau County border.[17]: 142 [11][32][33] On the electric light signal board in the control room at Euclid Avenue, there is a taped-over section of the board that hides the 76th Street station.[17]: 145 [32][34][35] There are also two tracks coming from the Pitkin Yard heading towards the planned 76th Street station site.[32][35] These tracks would have merged with the mainline tracks just before 76th Street station.[27] When Pitkin Yard originally opened, the yard leads toward 76th Street were usable to relay short trains on. Today, those two tracks are no longer connected via switches. Parts of the trackways still exist, but the switches were removed and the tunnel ends in a cinderblock wall.[32][35]

As late as 1951, the mainline and relay tracks were still planned to be extended as far as 105th Street (the modern location of

Cross Bay Boulevard.[36] The extension of the subway, however, was never built; instead the line was connected to the former Fulton Street elevated on Liberty Avenue and the former LIRR Rockaway branch (now the IND Rockaway Line), both via the Grant Avenue station, which opened in 1956.[19][37][38]

Rumors that the proposed station was actually constructed, at least partially, are prevalent. Evidence supporting the existence of the station includes the signal board,

Roswell UFO incident or the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.[32]
Steve Krokowski, a retired transit worker and police officer, was quoted by the Times in reference to the station, mentioning:

  • The taped-over portion of the signal board which covers a label for the 76th Street station.[32] (This control board actually exists, and has indeed been taped over.[17]: 145 [34][35])
  • The remnants of the Pitkin Yard leads that head northeast and then stop near the aforementioned cinder-block wall.[32] Krokowski tried to dig under the wall, and found a track tie, but stopped when the hole caved in.[32]
  • A retired police officer claimed that the cinder-block wall previously had a door, and that in the 1960s he walked through it, and saw a station complete with everything except for turnstiles and token booths.[32] Other "colleagues", all supposedly dead, also claimed to have seen the station, though whether anyone else actually made such claims is unknown.[32]

However, there is also significant evidence against the existence of the station, including a lack of newspaper coverage, the lack of subway infrastructure such as ventilation grates or skylights on Pitkin Avenue in the area, and the absence of documentation of the work from the Board of Transportation or the Board of Estimate.[17]: 143 [32]

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