Utica Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

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Utica Avenue
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A (all times) C (all except late nights)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other
Borough	Brooklyn
Opened	April 9, 1936
Next north	Kingston–Throop Avenues (local): A C Nostrand Avenue (express): A
Next south	Ralph Avenue (local): A C Broadway Junction (express): A

Utica Avenue is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. The tile color is maroon with a Tuscan red border. The station has been renovated. There are new old-fashioned light fixtures with modern sodium-vapor lamps in them. They are suspended on long rods from the high, vaulted ceilings. There is a free crossover.

The center of the station slopes down and there is a lowered ceiling compared to the rest of the station. Above are unused platforms above intended for use as part of a major system expansion. Stairways to them have been removed, but possible evidence is present at ceiling level. It appears that there were four tracks and two island platforms running diagonally across the ceiling in the center of the station. Climbing the steps to the intermediate level, there are some locked doors which could serve as access to the unfinished platforms. There are additional exits at the extreme ends of each platform which bypass the intermediate level and go straight to the fare control level, the eastern one to Utica Avenue and the western one to Stuyvesant Avenue.

Between this station and Ralph Avenue, there is a fifth track, which could be used for storage or turning trains, although it is not normally used for this purpose.

Artwork here was made in 1996 by Jimmy James Green and is called Children's Cathedral.