Utica Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line station)
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Brooklyn
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Utica Avenue, located at Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue, is the southernmost underground station, and the southernmost four-track station, on the Eastern Parkway Line. It is the south terminal of the Template:NYCS 4 at all times but rush hours, and some rush-hour Template:NYCS 5 trips. The station serves local and express trains in a two-level layout with two island platforms. The upper platform serves southbound trains, with local tracks to the west and express tracks to the east, and the lower platform serves northbound trains with a similar configuration.
Double crossover tracks exist north of the station for northbound trains and south for southbound trains between the local and express tracks. South of the station, a track comes from a connection with both lower level tracks and rises between the upper level tracks, with double crossovers between the it and both upper tracks before ending between the local tracks after curving south with them. This track may have been intended for a reversible express track on the rest of the line.
There is an active tower at the south end of the platform. Extensions of the subway have been proposed as part of the MTA's 1970s expansion proposals as well as in the older IND Second System plans. In the station there are ornate doors in the tile walls which serve as vent chambers for the station. There are plans to renovate this station and add elevators. On the lower level there is a closed tower on the south end.
External links
- NYCsubway.org - Brooklyn IRT: Utica Avenue (http://nycsubway.org/irt/brookirt/irt-brooklyn-utica.html) (text used with permission)