Church Avenue is a fully ADA accessible stop on the two track IRT Nostrand Avenue Subway, the station has two side platforms, with no crossover, so no free change of direction transfer. The station was rehabilitated in 1997, as a plaque in the station commemorates. Each platform was retiled in a replica way of its original 1920 Dual-Contracts era tiling with Church Ave name tablets on a blue background with a green boarder. The station's trim line is similar: a light yellowish-brown for the main solid sections with a boarder composed of a majority of green tiles. There are Cs in it for Church at regular intervals. Beneath the original 1920s trimline more modern day streaks of color have been added along the platform walls. For about the first two feet of the platform walls the tiles are a green color, there is a single tile line of a yellow above this that forms accent lines up to the Cs in the station's trimline.
The platforms are quite narrow towards the ends of each and become wider towards the middle as the stations exits are directly on each platform (no free-crossover or under) in the middle of each platform. The Manhattan-bound platform contains turnstiles and the token booth, leading to streestairs up to the NE and SE corners of Church Avenue and Nostrand Avenue. There is also an elevator to make this platform ADA accessible up to the SE corner of Church Avenue and Nostrand Avenue, this elevator is the middle-generation green beam variety.
Fare control for the Flatbush-bound platform is fully automated with three High Exit Turnstiles for passengers leaving the subway system and a single High Entrance/Exit Turnstile for passengers trying to get on Flatbush-bound trains. Two streetstairs lead up to the NW corner, along with a single streetstair and elevator (there was once a second streetstair here up this corner too) to th SW corner of Nostrand Avenue and Church Avenue.
Photos 1-23: July 22, 2009;
Looking down the Flatbush Avenue-bound platform at Church Avenue, towards an extremely narrow end of it, as a R142 5 train stops in the station.
A close up of a C in the platform wall trim line at Church Avenue.
Looking down the Flatbush Avenue-bound platform at Church Avenue at a section of it where the I-beam columns begin and it gets a bit wider going towards the platform's only exit.
Looking back down the Flatbush-bound platform at Church Avenue, all four extreme ends of the platform are quite narrow.
A Church Ave name tablet.
A close up of a Church Avenue column sign with a bit of graffiti on it.
A sign on a column at Church Avenue advertising the fact the 5 has been extended there during middays, the High Exit Turnstiles are in the background.
The four different High Turnstiles that provide the only way to exit or enter (there's just one for that) Flatbush Avenue-bound trains at Church Avenue.
Another view down the Flatbush Avenue-bound platform at Church Avenue with a R142 2 train stopped in the station.
Looking back at the single High Entrance Turnstile, the only way to enter the Flatbush-bound platform at Church Avenue.
Looking across Church Avenue at two street stairs on the same corner for 2/5 trains To Flatbush Av only.
The one elevator from the street to the platform level fare control for Flatbush Avenue-bound trains at Church Avenue.
A staircase for trains to Manhattan at Church Avenue looks like it could use a bit of a paint job.
The top of the elevator on the street at Church Avenue for 2/5 trains to Manhattan & The Bronx.
The elevator door of the elevator for 2/5 trains to Manhattan & The Bronx.
An ADA sign on the elevator to Mezz (it really should say platform, the station doesn't have a mezzanine level) for 2/5 trains to Manh. & The Bronx.
A street stair for the Manhattan & The Bronx only side of Church Avenue.
In the small area outside of fare control is at Church Avenue, the token booth is visible across from its turnstiles.
A plaque commemorating Church Avenue's rehabilitation in 1997 after the station opened in 1920.
Looking by a closed metal gate along the Manhattan-bound platform at Church Avenue, it was probably a newsstand.
Last Updated: November 5, 2023
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