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The Saratoga Avenue Station is a simple elevated stop on the two-track Livonia Avenue el. The station has two side platforms and a single exit that is at the extreme eastern (railway southern) end of the platforms. This exit is inside a small headhouse on the elevated structure beneath the tracks so a free cross-under is provided. There is a single staircase down from the Manhattan-bound platform that is at about the very last door of the last car. There is a staircase down from the New Lots-bound platform at this same point as well (first door of the first car), but there is also a second exit that instead of being directly on the platform juts out from the elevated platform for its own staircase and entrance into the station house. This secondary staircase has gates and signs on the gates that say it is open Monday - Friday 6:00am to 10:00pm.

From the station house there are three staircases down from the elevated, these lead to the NW, SW, and SE corners of Saratoga Avenue and Livonia Avenue, the corner missing a staircase is the NE one.

When I last visited the station in 2009 and 2012, before it was closed for renovations from April 11, 2016 until September 19, 2016, the station still featured a couple of extremely rare (and valuable to collectors) enamel on porcelain signs in the form of ones saying To Street that direct passengers from the staircases off the platform and into the headhouse so they can leave the subway system.

Even more impressive through were the still legible sign at the bottom of an entrance staircase to the elevated that reads: 'Interborough Rapid Transit Company: To All Trains'. The platforms have the standard cream colored metal windscreens for most of there lengths. The cantilevered metalwork that holds up the windscreen is painted green and has little Saratoga Avenue signs on it. There is a small exposed section at the end opposite the station's exit and this has the standard low black painted metal fence. At the other end of the platform beyond the exit staircases the platforms continues a bit (although no trains ever stop here) and there is another small exposed portion of the platforms that are great places to photograph incoming trains.

Sadly, the renovations that gave the platform green and cream windscreens, rebuilt the streetstairs and renovated other parts of the mezzanine removed these historic features.
1-23: July 22, 2009; 24-32: November 3, 2012; 33-51: November 27, 2023;

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Arts For Transit at Saratoga Avenue

Chanelier, 2017,
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By Nancy Baker

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