Kingston–Throop Avenues (IND Fulton Street Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Kingston–Throop Avenues


bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Fulton Street Line
service = Fulton local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
passengers = 1.500 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = 4
borough = Brooklyn
connection = B15 bus to JFK Int'l Airport
open_date = April 9, 1936
north_station = Nostrand Avenue
north_line = IND Fulton Street Line
north_service = Fulton local
south_station = Utica Avenue
south_line = IND Fulton Street Line
south_service = Fulton local

Kingston–Throop Avenues is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located on Fulton Street between Kingston and Throop Avenues in the Weeksville neighborhood of Brooklyn.

This station is a local station with two offset side platforms. The Manhattan-bound platform has exits to Throop Avenue, while the Queens-bound platform has exits to Kingston Avenue. Fare control along with 24-hour exits is available on both sides.

This station is the site of the 1995 murder of token booth clerk, Harry Kaufman. Robbers squirted accelerant into the booth and set the fumes alight with a match causing an explosion that blew out the glass and deformed the booth. The incident drew national attention due to allegations that the movie Money Train inspired the murder. The allegations were unfounded and the movie's producer, Columbia Pictures, claimed that the scenes were inspired by an actual event in 1988 where a token booth clerk was killed in the same fashion. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E4DB1739F935A25751C1A963958260 Token Booth Fire Attack Seems Unrelated To Movie - New York Times ] ] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DF1E38F936A35755C0A96E948260 Subway Token Clerk Dies After Booth Was Set Afire - New York Times ] ] [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/thecity/31mone.html Cash and Carry - New York Times ] ]

Nearby points of interest

*Brooklyn Children's Museum
*Restoration Plaza

Bus connections

*B15 (One block east)
*B25 [PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b025cur.pdf B25 schedule] |257 KB]
*B43

References

External links

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*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ctrain.htm C Train]