Division B (BMT) Services Q (all times) Structure Embankment Opened 1908 Tracks 4 | Line BMT Brighton Line Transit connections New York City Bus: B3 Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Brooklyn Locale Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay | |
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Address Brooklyn, NY 11229, United States Similar Avenue M, Avenue H, Avenue J, Seventh Avenue, Cortelyou Road | ||
Avenue U is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway, located at Avenue U between East 15th and East 16th Streets in Homecrest and Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times.
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Station layout
This station, opened in 1908 and completely rebuilt in 2008-2010, is situated on an embankment and has four tracks and two side platforms. The center tracks are used by the B express train when it operates on weekdays.
Both platforms have beige windscreens with green outlines and frames along their entire lengths and red canopies with green frames in the center. The station signs are in the standard black plates in white lettering and lamp posts are on all support columns of the windscreens in the non-canopied areas. The Coney Island-bound platform has a storage area above the mezzanine staircase.
The 2011 artwork here is called Brooklyn Wildfires by Jason Middlebrook and Miotto Mosaic Art Studio. It is installed on the walls of the Coney Island-bound platform's staircase and consists ceramic tiling and glass mosaic depicting various species of wildflowers.
Exit
The station has one ground-level station house directly underneath the tracks and platforms on the north side of Avenue U. It has a token booth, turnstile bank, and double-wide staircase going up to the Coney Island-bound platform and two standard width staircases to the Manhattan-bound one. The Coney Island-bound staircase landing splits below a landing, one side leading to the station house and the other bypassing it with two exit-only turnstiles leading directly to the sidewalk. The Coney Island-bound platform also has a metal door leading to a closed staircase that goes down to the north side of Avenue U.