Euclid Avenue

Euclid Avenue New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Euclid Avenue & Pitkin Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11208
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	East New York
Coordinates	40°40′31″N 73°52′19″W / 40.675366°N 73.871899°W / 40.675366; -73.871899Coordinates: 40°40′31″N 73°52′19″W / 40.675366°N 73.871899°W / 40.675366; -73.871899
Division	B (IND)
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (all times)      C  (all except late nights)
Connection	New York City Bus: B13, Q7, Q8
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	November 28, 1948
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	2.995 million[1][2] ▲ 4.5%
Rank	153 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	Shepherd Avenue (local): A  C  Broadway Junction (express): A
Next south	Grant Avenue: A
Next north	Franklin Avenue (local): A  C  West Fourth Street – Washington Square (express): A
Next south	Howard Beach – JFK Airport (via Rockaway): A
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

Euclid Avenue is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn, it is served by the A train at all times, and the C train, which terminates here, at all times except late nights.

This is an express station, with four tracks and two island platforms. It has the same 10" × 5" eggshell-beige wall tile as the next three stations north. The tile band, however, is a delicate shade of lilac with a violet border, similar to the Delancey Street stop in Manhattan. The I-beams are tiled and feature mini-vertical name tablets reading "Euclid," along with the two-tone border motif. Away from the platform center, there is a single row of these I-beams running down the middle of the platform. The south end of both platforms has an elevated crew quarters. The station has a crossover in the mezzanine along with an active newsstand.

East (railroad south) of the station the trackwork is quite complex, first allowing trains to enter the Pitkin Yard from either the express or the local tracks (where C trains relay to get from the southbound to the northbound local track), then the connection to Grant Avenue station, also from either the express or local tracks. All four trackways continue, disused, east under Pitkin Avenue until approximately Elderts Lane. It was planned that the four unused tracks would continue under Pitkin Avenue to Queens, as part of a never-built system expansion.

This station was an unfinished shell during World War II that couldn't be finished because of material shortages from the war effort. This meant the station got a sightly different tile job and design for the mezzanine compared to the rest of the stations along the line.

76th Street station provisional platforms

For years, the 76th Street station shell has been rumored to sit just to the east of this station, past the cinderblock wall. If the station was built, it would have been planned as part of the IND Second System to continue the line out to 229th Street in Cambria Heights, Queens where the subway is now only a distant rumor. The 76th Street station was partially built with one side platform with four trackways, and one uncertain portion of another platform. The station cannot be found on any subway or street maps. On the street where it is supposed to be, along Pitkin Avenue, just over the Brooklyn border into Queens, there are no traces of evidence, like subway gratings, that anything lies below. On the electric light board in the control room at the Euclid Avenue Station, showing the locations of trains, there is a part, now black-taped over that says "76th Street". It also says on the board, that the next tower is at Cross Bay Blvd. The four unused tracks dead-end at a cinderblock wall rather than a solid wall. One signal faces the dead-end tunnel about three carlengths from the end of the tunnel, which makes no sense for this to be here. There are rumors that the tracks continue past the cinderblock wall and into the 76th Street station shell.

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — IND Fulton: Euclid Avenue
• Station Reporter — C train
• Station Reporter — A Lefferts train
• Station Reporter — A Rockaway train
• The Subway Nut — Euclid Avenue Pictures

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