Utica Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

Utica Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Utica Avenue & Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11233
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bedford-Stuyvesant
Coordinates	40°40′45″N 73°55′45″W / 40.679239°N 73.929062°W / 40.679239; -73.929062Coordinates: 40°40′45″N 73°55′45″W / 40.679239°N 73.929062°W / 40.679239; -73.929062
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (all times)       C  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B25, B46, B46 SBS
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 81 years ago (April 9, 1936)
Accessible
Wireless service
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	5,060,099  3.7%
Rank	95 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Nostrand Avenue (express): A  Kingston–Throop Avenues (local): A  C
Next south	Ralph Avenue (local): A  C  Broadway Junction (express): A
Next north	Jay Street–MetroTech (express): A  Franklin Avenue (local): A  C
Next south	Euclid Avenue: A  C
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times Stops late nights only
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Utica Avenue 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.

This underground station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the Independent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus at Jay Street–Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, to Rockaway Avenue. The new IND subway replaced the BMT Fulton Street El. The Reid Avenue El station, which was originally named Utica Avenue and was formerly above the current subway station, closed on May 31, 1940.

The station has four tracks and two island platforms, typical for a four-track express station. The outer track walls are made of tile and have a Pomegranate red band with a Tuscan red border. Small black signs with "UTICA" in white lettering run below the bands at regular intervals. The station's i-beam columns are painted maroon. 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.

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.

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