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Euclid Avenue is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Euclid and Pitkin Avenues in East New York, Brooklyn. It is served by the A train at all times and is the southern terminal for the C train at all times except nights. During nights, this is the northern terminal for the Lefferts Boulevard shuttle from Ozone Park, Queens.
Euclid Avenue was part of a four-station extension of the Fulton Street subway along Pitkin Avenue, past its original planned terminus at Broadway – East New York.[2][3][4] Construction of the station began in 1938, but the station remained an incomplete shell during World War II that could not be finished because of material shortages from the war effort.[4][5] Construction resumed on the extension in 1946.[6] The delay meant the station received different design features than the rest of the stations along the line, including a slightly different tile job, fluorescent lighting instead of then-standard incandescent lights, and improved restroom and phone booth facilities.[4][7][8]
After several test runs, the station opened to the public in the early morning of November 28, 1948. It became the new terminal of the Fulton Street Line, replacing the former terminal at Broadway – East New York (now Broadway Junction).[4][5][7][7] It later became the replacement for the elevated BMT Fulton Street Line's Chestnut Street and Crescent Street stations, which closed on April 26, 1956 when the connection to the eastern Fulton elevated was opened.[9]
In the mid-2000s, an elevator to the street and elevators between the mezzanine and each platform were installed, making the station ADA-accessible.[10][11]
This station has four tracks and two island platforms, and is the geographically easternmost (railroad southern) express station on the IND Fulton Street Line.[4][7] It has the same 10" × 5" eggshell-beige wall tile as the next three stations west (railroad north), in contrast to typical IND white square tiles.[12] The tile band, however, is a delicate shade of lilac with a violet border, similar to Delancey Street in Manhattan. The I-beams are tiled with color bands and mini-vertical name tablets reading "Euclid," along with the two-tone border motif. The I-beams are in pairs at the center of the platforms; towards each end the platforms narrow and there is a single row of these I-beams.[12] A crew quarters room is over the south end of both platforms. The station has a crossover in the mezzanine along with an active newsstand and elevators to both platforms. The street elevator is located at the Northeast corner of Pitkin and Euclid Avenues, and exits stairs are present at all four corners of the intersection.[11][13]
The next station east (railroad south) for IND Fulton Street service is Grant Avenue, located in City Line, Brooklyn. However, there is rumored to be another station named 76th Street in nearby Ozone Park, Queens, just four blocks east of Grant Avenue.[5]
The track work is quite complex there, allowing trains to enter the Pitkin Yard from both the express and local tracks (where C trains relay to get from the southbound to the northbound local track), and with connections to the two-track Grant Avenue station from both the express and local tracks; the Grant Avenue spur then veers northeast towards Liberty Avenue.[14] All four mainline trackways continue below the Grant Avenue connection, disused, east under Pitkin Avenue until approximately Elderts Lane (just south of the Grant Avenue station). It was planned that these tracks would continue under Pitkin Avenue to Cross Bay Boulevard, as part of a never-built system expansion which would have extended the Fulton Street Subway to the Rockaways and to Cambria Heights near the Queens-Nassau County border.[5][6][15] On the electric light signal board in the control room at Euclid Avenue, there is a taped-over section of the board that hides the 76th Street station.[5][15][16] There are also two tracks coming from the Pitkin Yard heading towards the 76th Street station site. When Pitkin Yard originally opened, the yard leads toward 76th Street were usable to relay short trains on. Today, those two tracks are no longer connected via switches. Parts of the trackways still exist, but the switches were removed and the tunnel ends in a cinderblock wall.[15]
As late as 1951, the mainline and relay tracks were still planned to be extended as far as 105th Street (the modern location of Aqueduct Racetrack), with a connection to the recently abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad east of Cross Bay Boulevard.[17] The extension of the subway, however, was never built; instead the line was connected to the former Fulton Street elevated on Liberty Avenue and the former LIRR Rockaway branch (now the IND Rockaway Line), both via the Grant Avenue station opened in 1956.[9][18][19]
Rumors of the supposed station are prevalent. Evidence supporting the existence of the station includes the signal board,[5][15][16] the cinderblock wall at the end of the tunnel (cinderblock, brick, and wooden partitions are used in other parts of the subway to seal potential expansion sites)[15][16] and a signal for trains running from the station into Euclid Avenue facing the wall.[16] On online transit forums, such as the website SubChat, some have claimed to have known people who have seen the station. The New York Times likened the rumor to the Roswell UFO incident.[15] Steve Krokowski, a retired transit worker and police officer, was quoted by the Times in reference to the station, mentioning:
However, there is also significant evidence against the existence of the station, including a lack of newspaper coverage, the lack of subway infrastructure such as ventilation grates or skylights on Pitkin Avenue in the area, and the absence of documentation of the work from the Transportation Board or the Board of Estimate.[5][15] In addition, Pitkin Avenue is more narrow at the site than other streets which accommodate four-track subways underground.
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