The Kingston–Throop Avenues station is a local station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located on Fulton Street between Kingston and Throop Avenues in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the C train at all times except nights, when the A train takes over service.

Kingston–Throop Avenues
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Fulton Street between Kingston Avenue & Throop Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11216
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bedford–Stuyvesant
Coordinates	40.679857°N 73.940606°W / 40.679857; -73.940606
Division	B (IND)[1]
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (late nights) ​   C  (all except late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B15, B25, B43
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 86 years ago (1936-04-09)[2]
Station code	180[3]
Opposite- direction transfer	No
Traffic
2019	2,055,094[4]  2.1%
Rank	231 out of 424[4]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Nostrand Avenue A  ​C  toward 168th Street Local Utica Avenue A  ​C  toward Euclid Avenue
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Nostrand Av to Utica Av
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only

History

The Kingston—Throop Avenues station was constructed as part of the IND Fulton Street Line, the main line of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND)'s main line from Downtown Brooklyn to southern Queens.[5] The groundbreaking for the line was held on April 16, 1929, at Fulton Street and Arlington Place.[6] This station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of the Independent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus at Jay Street–Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, to Rockaway Avenue.[2] The new IND subway replaced the BMT Fulton Street Elevated, and this station replaced its Brooklyn–Tompkins Avenues station, which closed on May 31, 1940.[7]

Under the 2015–2019 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Plan, the station, along with thirty other New York City Subway stations, were to have undergone a complete overhaul and would have been entirely closed for up to six months. Updates would include cellular service, Wi-Fi, charging stations, improved signage, and improved station lighting.[8][9][10] However, most of these renovations are being deferred until the 2020–2024 Capital Program due to a lack of funding.[11]

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
P Platform level	Side platform
	Westbound local	← toward 168th Street (Nostrand Avenue) ← toward 207th Street late nights (Nostrand Avenue)
	Westbound express	← does not stop here
	Eastbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Eastbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue (Utica Avenue) → → toward Far Rockaway late nights (Utica Avenue) →
	Side platform

This underground station has four tracks and two noticeably offset side platforms, with the southbound platform located roughly 300 feet further west (railroad north) than the northbound platform. The two center tracks are used by the A express train during daytime hours. Both platforms have a butterscotch yellow trim line with a mustard brown border and mosaic name tablets reading KINGSTON - THROOP AV." in white sans serif lettering on two lines on a mustard brown background and butterscotch yellow border. Small tile captions alternating between "KINGSTON" and "THROOP" in white lettering on a black background run below the trim line, and directional captions in the same style are present below some of the name tablets. The platforms are column-less except for a few dark yellow I-beam ones near fare control.

Exits

Each platform has one same-level fare control area. The one on the Euclid Avenue- and Queens-bound platform is at the extreme west (railroad north) end and has a bank of three turnstiles, and two staircases going up to the each southern corners of Fulton Street and Kingston Avenue. The one on the Manhattan-bound platform is at the center and has a bank of four turnstiles, a full-time token booth, and two staircases going up to either northern corners of Fulton Street and Throop Avenue.[12]

Incidents

This station was the site of a 1995 robbery that killed the token booth clerk, 50-year-old Harry Kaufman. Robbers squirted accelerant into the booth on the Euclid Avenue-bound platform and set the fumes alight with a match, causing an explosion that blew out the glass and deformed the booth. The incident drew national attention due to allegations that the movie Money Train (1995) inspired the murder. The allegations were unfounded and the movie's producer, Columbia Pictures, claimed that the scenes were inspired by an earlier event, in 1988, where another token booth clerk was killed in the same fashion.[13][14][15]

Nearby points of interest

• Brooklyn Children's Museum — 0.8 miles away
• Restoration Plaza — 0.3 miles away

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kingston–Throop Avenues (IND Fulton Street Line).

• nycsubway.org – IND Fulton: Kingston/Throop Aves
• Station Reporter — C Train
• The Subway Nut — Kingston–Throop Avenues Pictures
• Kingston Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Throop Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View

На других языках

[ru] Кингстон-авеню — Труп-авеню (линия Фултон-стрит, Ай-эн-ди)