Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)

Livonia Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Livonia Avenue & Van Sinderen Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11207
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	East New York
Coordinates	40°39′49″N 73°54′02″W / 40.663745°N 73.90048°W / 40.663745; -73.90048Coordinates: 40°39′49″N 73°54′02″W / 40.663745°N 73.90048°W / 40.663745; -73.90048
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Canarsie Line
Services	L  (all times)
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	December 28, 1906 (1906-12-28)
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	987,560[1]  5.7%
Rank	363 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	Sutter Avenue: L
Next south	New Lots Avenue: L
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekdays only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekends and weekend late nights Stops weekdays and weekday late nights Stops weekdays only Stops weekends only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

Livonia Avenue is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Livonia and Van Sinderen Avenues, it is served by the L train at all times.

This elevated station, opened on December 28, 1906 and renovated in 2005-06, has two side platforms and two tracks. Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies in their centers and barb wired fences at either ends. They are all supported by green frames.

The station's only entrance/exit is a ground-level stationhouse directly underneath the platforms on the north side of the T-intersection of Van Sinderen and Livonia Avenues. It has a turnstile bank, token booth, and one staircase to each platform at the center.

Right next to the station house is a pedestrian bridge that spans west above the adjacent and parallel Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch and leads to Junius Street, where the entrance to a station on the IRT New Lots Line is less than a block away. There is no free transfer between that station and Livonia Avenue.

The Canarsie-bound platform has a secondary exit leading directly to the pedestrian bridge that contains two HEET turnstiles, an emergency gate, and a small staircase.

The 2007 artwork here is called Seasons by Philemona Williamson. It consists of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicted events related to the four seasons of meteorology.

Just south of this station is a spur branching off towards the Linden Shops & Yard. Another spur branches off of the IRT New Lots Line, which crosses over Livonia Avenue, and connects with track from the Canarsie Line before entering the yard. These spurs and the yard have no third rail and are used by New York City Transit diesel locomotives going to and from the facility.

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← toward Eighth Avenue (Sutter Avenue)
	Southbound	→ toward Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway (New Lots Avenue) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Exit/Entrance	Pedestrian bridge over LIRR from southbound platform
G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
	Station house	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard vending machines

References

External links

Media related to Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org—BMT Canarsie Line: Livonia Avenue
• Station Reporter — L Train
• The Subway Nut — Livonia Avenue Pictures
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)
• Livonia Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

Unstaffed entrance on the Canarsie-bound platform