Home<N.Y.C. Subway Stations<Avenue U/Sea Beach Line

Avenue U is a standard trenched Sea Beach Line Station with two side platforms for the four-tracked line tucked beneath the backyards that encroach on the subway's open-cut. Both of these platforms have a series blue-green columns along the platform edge and peeling painted cream concrete holding up the platforms ceilings. The station has two entrances one at either end. Avenue T has only High-Turnstiles and is at the northern end, Avenue U has the full time token booth and regular turnstiles, otherwise each station house is identical, alongside the sidewalk, where the fare control equipment yields to a short staircase enclosed in metal panels and down to an overpass area where a single staircase leads from each side of it down to each of the platforms.

Page 1|Page 2 (ave_un1) A R68 N train leaves Avenue U 4 June, 2005 (ave_un2) Looking across to houses along the Sea Beach Line, their backyards encroaching over the platforms. 4 June, 2005 (ave_un3) The paint chipped ceiling of the Coney Island-bound platform at Avenue U 4 June, 2005 (ave_un4) A R68 D train bypasses Avenue U, running non-stop to Coney Island because of track work on its West End Line, a fairly regular occurrence (Manhattan-bound trains will run normally) 4 June, 2005 (ave_un5) A Manhattan-bound R68 N train leaves Avenue U 4 June, 2005 (ave_un6) A Coney Island-bound N train enters Avenue U 4 June, 2005 (ave_un7) A Manhattan-bound R143 N train stops at Avenue U 11 August, 2009 (ave_un8) Looking across the Avenue U station with the houses almost on the tracks 11 August, 2009 (ave_un9) One Yard has a hand painted 9/11 memorial flag on it as we look down the trenched Avenue U Station 11 August, 2009 (ave_un10) The chipped ceiling of Avenue U 11 August, 2009 (ave_un11) The narrow metal walled overpass passageway that leads to the Avenue T exit 11 August, 2009 (ave_un12) The narrow staircase down to the Manhattan & Queens platform from the Avenue T entrance 11 August, 2009 (ave_un13) Up another short flight of stairs to the Avenue U station house 11 August, 2009 (ave_un14) The staircase entrance form the station house level for the two sets that lead down to the platform 11 August, 2009 (ave_un15) A historic from city sign in the mosaic trim of the station house at Avenue U 11 August, 2009 (ave_un16) A small electric heater inside the now quite bare with the removal of the turnstiles station house at Avenue U 11 August, 2009 Page 1|Page 2

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