Utica Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Utica Avenue

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bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Fulton Street Line
service = Fulton
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
passengers = 4.204 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = 7
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = April 9, 1936
north_line = IND Fulton Street Line
north_local_station = Kingston–Throop Avenues
north_local_service = Fulton local
north_express_station = Nostrand Avenue
north_express_service = Fulton express
south_line = IND Fulton Street Line
south_local_station = Ralph Avenue
south_local_service = Fulton local
south_express_station = Broadway Junction
south_express_service = Fulton express

Utica Avenue is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. The tile color is maroon with a tuscan red border. The station has been renovated with new old-fashioned light fixtures with modern sodium-vapor lamps in them. They are suspended on long rods from the high, vaulted ceilings. There is a free crossover.

The center of the station slopes down and there is a lowered ceiling compared to the rest of the station. Above are unused platforms above intended for use as part of a major system expansion. Stairways to them have been removed, but possible evidence is present at ceiling level. It appears that there were four tracks and two island platforms running diagonally across the ceiling in the center of the station. Climbing the steps to the intermediate level, there are some locked doors which could serve as access to the unfinished platforms. There are additional exits at the extreme ends of each platform which bypass the intermediate level and go straight to the fare control level, the eastern one to Utica Avenue and the western one to Stuyvesant Avenue.

Between this station and Ralph Avenue, there is a fifth track, which could be used for storage or turning trains, although it is not normally used for this purpose.

Artwork here was made in 1996 by Jimmy James Green and is called "Children's Cathedral".

Gallery

Bus connection

*B46 via Utica Avenue to Kings Plaza or via Malcolm X Boulevard/Broadway to Williamsburg

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?217:2885|IND Fulton|Utica Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/aleff.htm A Lefferts]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/arock.htm A Rockaway]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ctrain.htm C Train]