Utica Avenue station
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Platforms | 2 island platforms cross-platform interchange | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | April 9, 1936[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | ADA-accessible | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023 | 2,907,120[3] 8.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Utica Avenue station is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Utica Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights.
History
This underground station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the
Station layout
Ground | Street level | Exit/entrance |
Basement 1 | Upper mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Metrocard machines, to closed Utica Avenue Line platforms |
Basement 2 Utica Avenue platforms |
Lower mezzanine[6] | Connection between upper mezzanine and westbound trains |
Trackbeds | Provisions for 4 tracks and 2 platforms | |
Lower mezzanine[6] | Connection between upper mezzanine and eastbound trains | |
Basement 3 Fulton Street platforms |
Westbound local | ← toward 168th Street (Kingston–Throop Avenues) ← toward Inwood–207th Street late nights (Kingston–Throop Avenues) |
Island platform | ||
Westbound express | ← toward Inwood–207th Street (Nostrand Avenue) | |
Eastbound express | toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue, Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard or Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street (Broadway Junction) → | |
Island platform | ||
Eastbound local | toward Euclid Avenue (Ralph Avenue) → toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights (Ralph Avenue) → |
The station has four tracks and two
This station has two fare control areas, one at either end. The full-time side at the eastern (railroad south) end has two staircases from each platform going up to a crossover (the western ones go up to a ramp that leads to the main fare control area), where a turnstile bank and two exit-only turnstiles provide access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two street stairs, each going to either western corners of Utica Avenue and Fulton Street. The station's other fare control area has two staircases going down to each platform, a crossover, part-time turnstile bank and customer assistance booth, high entry/exit turnstiles that provide full-time access to and from the station, and two staircases going up to either side of Fulton Street between Stuyvesant and Schenectady Avenues.
Unusually, there are two mezzanine levels; the upper mezzanine level was closed off after a 1995 renovation, and the lower mezzanine level is actually the platform level of the unbuilt Utica Avenue line.
Between this station and
The artwork at the Utica Avenue station was made in 1996 by Jimmy James Green and is called Children's Cathedral.[10][11] The work consists of ten mosaic panels that are based on hundreds of drawings from neighborhood children. The scenes depict neighborhood residents doing everyday activities.[11]
Unfinished station
The center of the station slopes down and there is a lowered ceiling compared to the rest of the station.
There were blocked stairways up from the platform level to the upper level that were removed during the station's renovation. Climbing the steps to the intermediate level, there are locked doors that serve as access to the unfinished platforms. There are also some windows in this level. Looking into the window reveals a cinder-block wall that were erected to prevent glimpses into the closed portion of the intermediate level mezzanine. Climbing the ramp to the entrance level reveals more windows and doors These doors provide access to the disused portion of the upper level mezzanine, which has steps leading to the disused portion of the intermediate level mezzanine (which in turn leads directly to the unfinished station).
Before the renovation of this station in 1995, it was possible to see the unfinished station from the mezzanine. In the intermediate level of the mezzanine, the closed section of the mezzanine was blocked only by a chain-link fence. Past the fence, there was a tiled wall with a door. The door had some panels missing, and whenever open, a look into the door revealed the unfinished upper level station. After the 1990s renovation of the Utica Avenue station, the mezzanine was shortened using cinder-block walls and the current tiling in the intermediate level, hiding the chain-link fence and the door behind it.
Exits
This station is compliant with the 1990
There are four stair entrances, all on Fulton Street:[16]
- South side of Fulton Street west of Utica Avenue, at Boys and Girls High School[16]
- North side of Fulton Street west of Utica Avenue (staircase and elevator)[16]
- South side of Fulton Street west of Stuyvesant Avenue[16]
- North side of Fulton Street west of Stuyvesant Avenue[16]
References
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ from the original on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- New York Times, Last Train is Run on Fulton St. 'El' Archived December 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, June 1, 1940
- ^ a b "The Utica Avenue Subway". Archived from the original on February 23, 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ^ OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- Dropbox. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ African Voices. African Voices Communications, Incorporated. 2002. p. 44.
- ^ a b "Children's Cathedral". MTA. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
- ^ "Utica.ceil2.jpg". Archived from the original on May 1, 2018.
- ^ "- YouTube". YouTube.
- ^ "2nd System Blues". Archived from the original on August 20, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ^ "Utica Av AC Station Becomes the 82nd Fully ADA Accessible Subway Station". MTA. May 23, 2014. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Crown Heights" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
External links
- nycsubway.org – IND Fulton: Utica Avenue
- nycsubway.org — Children's Cathedral Artwork by Jimmy James Green (1996)
- Station Reporter — A Lefferts
- Station Reporter — A Rockaway
- Station Reporter — C Train
- Abandoned Stations: IND Second System unfinished stations
- The Subway Nut — Utica Avenue Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Utica Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)
- Utica Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Stuyvesant Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View