Lafayette Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)

Lafayette Avenue
Lafayette Avenue
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
	Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	South Portland Avenue & Fulton Street; Brooklyn, NY; (main station entrance)
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Fort Greene
Coordinates	40°41′11″N73°58′28″W / 40.686268°N 73.974466°W
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A (late nights); C (all except late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B25, B26, B52
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936;88 years ago
Opposite-; direction; transfer	No
Traffic
2023	1,252,720 15.4%
Rank	246 out of 423
Services
Services
Location
Track layout
	Legend
Street map
Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only

Last updated July 10, 2024

The Lafayette Avenue station is a local station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located under Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, it is served by the C train at all times except nights, when the A train takes over service.

Despite the station's name, there are no entrances on Lafayette Avenue; the nearest entrance is a block away.

History

This underground station opened on April 9, 1936, and replaced the BMT Fulton Street El.^[2] The Lafayette Avenue El station, which was formerly above the current subway station, closed on May 31, 1940.^[4]

Station layout

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Platform level	Side platform
	Westbound local	← toward 168th Street (Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets) ← toward Inwood–207th Street late nights (Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets)
	Westbound express	← does not stop here
	Eastbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Eastbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue (Clinton–Washington Avenues) → → toward Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights (Clinton–Washington Avenues) →
	Side platform

This station has four tracks and two side platforms. Both platforms have stairs that lead up to a long mezzanine and fare control. There is no free crossover or crossunder between the two platforms, due to the shape of the mezzanine's fare control area.

Both platform walls have a light green trim line with a dark green border and mosaic name tablets reading "LAFAYETTE AVE." in white sans-serif lettering on a dark green background with light green border. Small tile captions reading "LAFAYETTE" in white lettering on a black background run below the trim line. Emerald green I-beam columns run along the station mezzanine, but none are present at platform level.

East of this station there is a storage/lay up track between the two express tracks. The west end connects to the northbound express track, and the east end connects to the southbound express track, so trains must reverse in order to enter the layup track. At both ends, the storage/lay up track also ends at bumper blocks. There are also switches in both directions from the respective local to the respective express tracks; express trains cannot switch to the local tracks at these switches, however.^[5]

The station is located very close to the Fulton Street station on the IND Crosstown Line. Passengers on northbound local trains can see the platforms of the station on the right just after leaving Lafayette Avenue, as well as Crosstown Line's northbound track through openings in the curtain walls. There is an employee-only connection between the two stations via the subway tunnels.

Exits

All exits serve both platforms. At the west end, there are stairs to all four corners of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue.^[6] At the east end, there are stairs to four out of the six corners of the intersection of Fulton Street, South Oxford Street, and Hanson Place. There are two stairs to the northern corner, one to the northeastern (via a passageway), one to the southeastern, and one to the southwestern.^[6]

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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.
1 2 "NEW SUBWAY LINK OPENED BY MAYOR; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut". The New York Times. April 9, 1936. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved August 15, 2016.
1 2 "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
↑ New York Times, Last Train is Run on Fulton St. 'El', June 1, 1940
↑ Marrero, Robert (January 1, 2017). "472 Stations, 850 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox . Retrieved April 27, 2018.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Downtown Brooklyn & Borough Hall" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2016.

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[SASDEIS-DIVISION-1] "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.

[nyt19360409-2] 1 2 "NEW SUBWAY LINK OPENED BY MAYOR; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut". The New York Times. April 9, 1936. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved August 15, 2016.

[riderref-3] 1 2 "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

[Rockaway-closed-4] New York Times, Last Train is Run on Fulton St. 'El', June 1, 1940

[tracks-469-5] Marrero, Robert (January 1, 2017). "472 Stations, 850 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox . Retrieved April 27, 2018.

[MTANeighborhood-DowntownBrooklyn-2015-6] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Downtown Brooklyn & Borough Hall" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2016.

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