Saratoga Avenue station (IRT New Lots Line)

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 Saratoga Avenue
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AddressSaratoga Avenue & Livonia Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Brownsville
Coordinates 40°39′42″N73°54′56″W / 40.661531°N 73.915586°W / 40.661531; -73.915586
Division A (IRT) [1]
Line IRT New Lots Line
Services    2   NYCS-SSI-rushreversepeak.svg (limited rush hour service in the reverse-peak direction)
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Structure Elevated
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Other information
OpenedNovember 22, 1920;103 years ago (November 22, 1920)
RebuiltApril 11, 2016;8 years ago (April 11, 2016) to September 19, 2016;7 years ago (September 19, 2016)
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2023941,203 [2] Increase2.svg 2.3%
Rank304 out of 423 [2]
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Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road
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Saratoga Avenue station (IRT New Lots Line)

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SymbolDescription
NYCS-SSI-alltimes.svg Stops all times
NYCS-SSI-nightsonly.svg Stops late nights only
NYCS-SSI-nightsweekends.svg Stops late nights and weekends
NYCS-SSI-rushonly.svg Stops rush hours only
NYCS-SSI-rushpeak.svg Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
NYCS-SSI-weekdaysonly.svg Stops weekdays during the day

The Saratoga Avenue station is a station on the IRT New Lots Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Saratoga Avenue and Livonia Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when the 4 train takes over service. During rush hours, occasional 2, 4 and 5 trains also stop here. [3]

History

The New Lots Line was built as a part of Contract 3 of the Dual Contracts between New York City and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, including this station. [4] It was built as an elevated line because the ground in this area is right above the water table, and as a result the construction of a subway would have been prohibitively expensive. [5] The first portion of the line between Utica Avenue and Junius Street, including this station, opened on November 22, 1920, with shuttle trains operating over this route. [6] [7] The line was completed to New Lots Avenue on October 16, 1922, [7] with a two-car train running on the northbound track. [8] On October 31, 1924, through service to New Lots Avenue was begun. [8]

From April 11, 2016 until September 19, 2016, Saratoga Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue were closed for renovation. [9]

Station layout

Platform level Side platform
Northbound NYCS-bull-trans-3-Std.svg toward Harlem–148th Street (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road)
NYCS-bull-trans-4-Std.svg toward Woodlawn late nights (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road)
NYCS-bull-trans-2-Std.svg toward Wakefield–241st Street (select rush hour trips) (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road)
NYCS-bull-trans-5-Std.svg toward Eastchester–Dyre Avenue (select rush hour trips) (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road)
Center trackway No track or roadbed
Southbound NYCS-bull-trans-3-Std.svg ( NYCS-bull-trans-4-Std.svg late nights) toward New Lots Avenue (Rockaway Avenue)
NYCS-bull-trans-2-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-4-Std.svg toward New Lots Avenue (select rush hour trips) (Rockaway Avenue)
Side platform
MezzanineFare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
GroundStreet levelExit/entrance

This elevated station has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track that was never installed. [10] Both platforms are longer than the standard IRT train length of 514 feet (157 m) and have beige windscreens and brown and red canopies with green canopies with green frames and support columns for their entire length except for a small section at the west (railroad north) end. Here, they have waist-high black steel fences with two lampposts and one standard black station sign in white lettering in-between them. The windscreens and canopy frames also have black and white station signs.

The station house had several enamel white-on-navy blue "To Street" porcelain signs directing passengers to the street stairs, [11] one of which also had porcelain signs of the same style at the bottom of the canopy that said, "Interborough Rapid Transit Company: To All Trains." [12] These signs were removed during the 2016 renovation.

Exits

The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks at the extreme east (railroad south) end. Inside fare control, it has a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, one staircase to the Manhattan-bound platform and two to the New Lots Avenue-bound one. One of those staircases is built adjacent to the platform instead of directly on it and connected to the station house with a wooden elevated passageway. Outside fare control, there is a turnstile bank, token booth, and three staircases going down to all corners of Saratoga and Livonia Avenues except the northeast one. [13]

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