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The Lafayette Avenue station is a local station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the
Last Train is Run on Fulton St. 'El'
June 1, 1940
This station has four tracks and two
C Train
* The Subway Nut â€
Lafayette Avenue Pictures
Portland Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Oxford Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Hanson Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
Greene Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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New York City Subway
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. Located under Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn
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, it is served by the C train at all times except nights, when the A train takes over service.
Despite the station's name, there are no entrances on Lafayette Avenue; the nearest entrance is a block away.
History
This underground station opened on April 9, 1936, and replaced the BMT Fulton Street El. The Lafayette Avenue El station, which was formerly above the current subway station, closed on May 31, 1940.New York Times
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Last Train is Run on Fulton St. 'El'
June 1, 1940
Station layout
This station has four tracks and two side platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
s. Both platforms have stairs that lead up to a long mezzanine
A mezzanine (; or in Italian language, Italian, a ''mezzanino'') is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft ...
and fare control
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. There is no free crossover or crossunder between the two platforms, due to the shape of the mezzanine's fare control area.
Both platform walls have a light green trim line with a dark green border and mosaic name tablets reading "LAFAYETTE AVE." in white sans-serif
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lettering on a dark green background with light green border. Small tile captions reading "LAFAYETTE" in white lettering on a black background run below the trim line. Emerald green I-beam columns run along the station mezzanine, but none are present at platform level.
East of this station there is a storage/lay up track between the two express tracks. The west end connects to the northbound express track, and the east end connects to the southbound express track, so trains must reverse in order to enter the layup track. At both ends, the storage/lay up track also ends at bumper blocks. There are also switches in both directions from the respective local to the respective express tracks; express trains cannot switch to the local tracks at these switches, however.
The station is located very close to the Fulton Street station on the IND Crosstown Line
The IND Crosstown Line or Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States. It provides crosstown service between western Brooklyn and nor ...
. Passengers on northbound local trains can see the station on the right just after leaving Lafayette Avenue. There is an employee-only connection between the two stations via the subway tunnels.
Exits
All exits serve both platforms. At the west end, there are stairs to all four corners of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue. At the east end, there are stairs to four out of the six corners of the intersection of Fulton Street, South Oxford Street, and Hanson Place. There are two stairs to the northern corner, one to the northeastern (via a passageway), one to the southeastern, and one to the southwestern.Nearby points of interest
*Barclays Center
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* Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant-garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in ...
* Brooklyn Technical High School
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* Fort Greene Park
Fort Greene Park is a city-owned and -operated park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City. The park was originally named after the fort formerly located there, Fort Putnam, which itself was named for Rufus Putnam, George Washington's Chief ...
* Irondale Center
The Irondale Center for Theater, Education, and Outreach is a performance space in Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county i ...
* Mark Morris Dance Center
The Mark Morris Dance Center is the permanent home of the international touring modern dance company, the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG), in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is at 3 Lafayette Avenue, on the corner o ...
* MoCADA
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), is a museum of contemporary art located at 80 Hanson Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City. It is the first museum of its kind to be opened in New York.
History
MoCADA was founded i ...
References
External links
* * Station Reporter â€C Train
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Lafayette Avenue Pictures
Portland Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Oxford Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Hanson Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
Greene Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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