Division B (BMT) Services L (all times) Platforms 2 side platforms Opened 28 December 1906 Locale Brownsville | Line BMT Canarsie Line Structure Elevated Passengers (2015) 1,001,522 1.4% Borough Brooklyn Tracks 2 | |
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Address Brooklyn, NY 11212, United States Similar Sutter Avenue, New Lots Avenue, East 105th Street, Bushwick Avenue–Aberdeen Street, Atlantic Avenue | ||
l train action at livonia avenue bmt canarsie line
Livonia Avenue is an elevated station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Livonia and Van Sinderen Avenues in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times.
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Station layout
This elevated station, opened on December 28, 1906 and renovated in 2005-2006, has two side platforms and two tracks. Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies in their centers and barb wired fences at either ends. They are all supported by green frames.
The 2007 artwork here is called Seasons by Philemona Williamson. It consists of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicted events related to the four seasons of meteorology.
Just south of this station is a spur branching off towards the Linden Shops & Yard. Another spur branches off of the IRT New Lots Line, which crosses over Livonia Avenue, and connects with track from the Canarsie Line before entering the yard. These spurs and the yard have no third rail and are used by New York City Transit diesel locomotives going to and from the facility.
Exits
The station's main entrance/exit is a ground-level station house directly underneath the platforms on the north side of the T-intersection of Van Sinderen and Livonia Avenues. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and one staircase to each platform at the center. The Canarsie-bound platform has a secondary exit leading directly to the pedestrian bridge that contains two HEET turnstiles, an emergency gate, and a small staircase.
Right next to the station house is a pedestrian bridge that spans west above the adjacent and parallel Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road and leads to Junius Street, where the entrance to a station on the IRT New Lots Line is less than a block away. There is currently no free transfer between that station and Livonia Avenue. There are proposals to convert the overpass into a free-transfer passage between the two stations, due to increasing ridership and plans for additional housing in the area. Money is allocated in the 2015–2019 Capital Program to build this transfer. Both stations will also be upgraded to become compliant with mobility accessibility guidelines under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. From January 2019 to at least July 2020, a free MetroCard-only transfer between the two stations will be provided due to a rehabilitation of the 14th Street Tunnel.