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Newkirk Plaza was renamed from Newkirk Avenue in August 2011 after the station underwent an extension rehabilitation to help the local merchants that surround the station promote their small shopping district. It also better reflects where the station’s entrance actually is, located inside the middle of this pedestrian plaza surrounded by small shops that has been built over the open-cut 4 track Brighton Line below. Newkirk Plaza above the station means nearly the entirety of the Manhattan-bound platform is covered, beneath this plaza along with both local tracks, the express tracks and one section of the Brighton/Coney Island-bound platform is exposed to the elements, with just a chain-link fence at street-level allowing views down to the station, and the express tracks in particular below. The 2009 to 2011 renovation repainted the platform columns that were dilapidated with peeling paint from red to green, installed tactile warning strips and new silver lampposts on the exposed portion of the Brighton/Coney Island-bound platform.

Two staircases lead up from each platform combining into one staircase at an intermediate landing up to the small station house. This station house is located directly above the express tracks, at street level. The station house is inside the middle of Newkirk Plaza, a one-block pedestrian only shopping strip that is located between Newkirk Avenue and Foster Avenue, that cross over the subway line at the northern and southern ends of the platform respectively. The station house was renovated in the late 1980s with generic white tiled walls.
Photos 1-16: August 13, 2008; 17-23 & 48-50: January 10, 2012; 24 & 25: January 20, 2012; 26-47: September 24, 2014

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Arts For Transit at Newkirk Avenue

Transit Skylight, 1988

Zinc-glazed polycarbonate skylight

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