Division A (IRT) Structure Elevated Opened 16 October 1922 Locale East New York | Line IRT New Lots Line Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Brooklyn Tracks 2 | |
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Services 2 (special rush hour trips)
3 (all except late nights)
4 (late nights and special rush hour trips)
5 (special rush hour trips) Rebuilt April 20, 2015; 22 months ago (April 20, 2015) to March 28, 2016; 11 months ago (March 28, 2016) Address Brooklyn, NY 11207, United States Similar Rockaway Avenue, Junius Street, Saratoga Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Lots Avenue | ||
Van Siclen Avenue is a station on the IRT New Lots Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Van Siclen Avenue and Livonia Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. It is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when the 4 train takes over service. Some rush hour 2, 4 and 5 trains also stop here.
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Station layout
This elevated station, opened on October 16, 1922, has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track that was never installed. The platforms are longer than a standard IRT train of 510 feet and have beige windscreen and brown canopies with green support columns along their entire length except at their extreme ends. Here, they have waist-high, steel fences with lampposts at regular intervals. The station's signs are the standard black name plates with white Helvetica lettering.
From April 20, 2015 to March 28, 2016, Van Siclen Avenue was closed for renovations.
Exits
The station's only mezzanine is an elevated headhouse below the platforms and tracks at the extreme east (railroad south) end. A single staircase from each platform goes down to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going down the northwest and southeast corners of Livonia Avenue and Van Siclen Avenue.