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Utica Avenue is an Fulton Street Subway express Station and was built to be a transfer stop to a subway line along Utica Avenue that was a part of the IND Second System that was never built. An uncompleted station for this four-track line two-island platform line still passes through the center of the station and the platform ceilings get extremely low. Before the station was renovated in 1996 there were closed off staircases up to these platforms. This means that the station doesn't have the standard mezzanines but does have two exits at either end of the two island platforms for the four tracks. The eastern end of the station has the full time exit to Utica Avenue, the western end is part-time turnstiles (a Customer Service assistant booth) and a High Entrance Gates for other times, to Fulton Park and Fulton Street. Each of these mezzanines have nearly identical but unique designs. The station is significantly deeper than most stations because of the phantom tracks passing through the station so right at the each exit there is a single double length staircase down to each of the island platforms, there is also a central ramp over the express tracks that gradually goes down before spitting and there's a single normal-length staircase down to each side platform. The platform's trim is a maroon color, with Utica in the standard individual tiles below it, the station has numerous columns all of which are painted in a maroon color.
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(uticaa1) R38 #3837 and a Euclid Av-bound C train stop at Utica Avenue.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa2) Looking down the platform at Utica Avenue over a portion of the platform that has extremely high ceilings.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa3) A Utica Avenue pillar sign.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa4) Looking back down the Brooklyn-bound platform at Utica Avenue, another staircase is in view.
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(uticaa5) The middle of each of the platform's ceilings get unusually low because of the phantom, never really built shell of a subway station above the current station.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa6) A sign on one of the ramp mezzanines for the Lefferts Blvd & The Rockaways platform at Utica Avenue
25 June, 2008 (uticaa7) Looking across from the top of one of the staircases that leads up to a ramp up to one of the exits at Utica Avenue, at the Queens-bound platform and its high ceiling and low hanging light fixtures.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa8) A very long ADA sign on one of the ramps at Utica Avenue saying, Up to exit. AC To Manhattan & The Bronx, stairs down Southeast. Lefferts & The Rockaways; Stairs down Southwest.
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(uticaa9) Approaching the top of the ramp up to the exit to Utica Avenue & Fulton Street.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa10) Looking down the ramp that's surrounded by artwork from the Utica Avenue exit's mezzanine.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa11) Looking beyond one of the Ramps at Utica Ave to a Utica Av platform sign and a R38 C train stopped at the station.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa12) A view down the express tracks at Utica Avenue by the shells of the tracks and platforms of the second system station that was never used.
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(uticaa13) One of the staircases up to the Fulton Park exit at Utica Avenue towards the eastern end of the platforms.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa14) An old black text on enamel sign on one of the ramps at Utica Avenue for Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa15) Looking down a long staircase back down to one of the platforms at Utica Avenues.
25 June, 2008 (uticaa16) There are couple of old font Utica signs at the extreme ends of some of the platforms.
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