Euclid Avenue is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. At the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn, it is served by the A train at all times; the southern terminal for the C train at all times except late nights; and late nights the northern terminal for the Lefferts Boulevard shuttle from Ozone Park, Queens.
It is an express station, with four tracks and two island platforms. It has the same 10" × 5" eggshell-beige wall tile as the next three stations north. 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 mini-vertical name tablets reading "Euclid," along with the two-tone border motif. Away from the platform center there is a single row of these I-beams running down the middle of the platform. 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.
East (railroad south) of the station the track-work is quite complex, allowing trains to enter the Pitkin Yard from both the express and the local tracks (where C trains relay to get from the southbound to the northbound local track), and with a connection to Grant Avenue station from both sets of tracks. All four trackways continue, disused, east under Pitkin Avenue until approximately Elderts Lane. It was planned that these tracks would continue under Pitkin Avenue to Queens, as part of a never-built system expansion.
This station was an incomplete shell during World War II that could not be finished because of material shortages from the war effort. This meant the station received a sightly different tile job and design for the mezzanine compared to the rest of the stations along the line.
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