Saratoga Avenue (IRT New Lots Line)

For the former station on the BMT Fulton Street Line, see Saratoga Avenue (BMT Fulton Street Line).
Saratoga Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Saratoga Avenue & Livonia Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11212
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Brownsville
Coordinates 40°39′42″N 73°54′56″W / 40.661531°N 73.915586°W / 40.661531; -73.915586Coordinates: 40°39′42″N 73°54′56″W / 40.661531°N 73.915586°W / 40.661531; -73.915586
Division A (IRT)
Line IRT New Lots Line
Services       2  (special rush hour trips)
      3  (all except late nights)
      4  (late nights and special rush hour trips)
      5  (special rush hour trips)
Transit connections NYCT Bus: B7
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened November 22, 1920 (November 22, 1920)
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 2,442,282[1] Increase 36.3%
Rank 199 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road: 2  3  4  5 
Next south Rockaway Avenue: 2  3  4  5 

Saratoga Avenue 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. Occasional 2, 4 and 5 trains serve this station during rush hours.

Station layout

Track layout
Legend
to Sutter Av–Rutland Rd
to Rockaway Av
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound ← toward Harlem–148th Street ( toward Woodlawn late nights) (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road)[2]
Center trackway → No track or roadbed
Southbound → ( late nights) toward New Lots Avenue (Rockaway Avenue)[3] →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
M Mezzanine Station agent, MetroCard vending machines, fare control
G Street Level Exit/ Entrance

This elevated station, opened on November 22, 1920,[4] has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track that was never installed. Both platforms are longer than the standard IRT train length of 510 feet 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'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.

The station house has several enamel white-on-navy blue "To Street" porcelain signs directing passengers to the street stairs,[5] one of which also has porcelain signs of the same style at the bottom of the canopy that says, "Interborough Rapid Transit Company: To All Trains."[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ Occasional 2 trains to Wakefield–241st Street and 5 trains to Nereid Avenue and Dyre Avenue also serve the station during rush hours.
  3. ↑ Occasional 2 5 trains also serve this station during rush hours.
  4. ↑ "Annual report. 1920-1921.". HathiTrust. Interborough Rapid Transit. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  5. ↑ "To Street" porcelain sign (The Subway Nut)
  6. ↑ IRT "To All Trains" porcelain sign (The Subway Nut)
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