Sterling Street is a station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Brooklyn at the intersection of Sterling Street and Nostrand Avenue, it is served by the 2 train at all times and the 5 train on weekdays.
This underground station, opened on August 23, 1920, has two tracks and two side platforms. The platforms have their original 1920s Dual Contracts era tiling. The name tablets have "STERLING ST." in white Times New Roman font on a brown background with a blue and brown border. The tile's trim line consists of light brown coloring with a border composed of a mix of dark blue and brown coloring. An intermediate line of green runs between these two borders.
The platforms are offset at the north end, where they were extended in the 1950s and tiling from that time period was installed. The name tablets here run at regular intervals and have "STERLING STREET" in white Arial font on a brown background. Both platforms and the mezzanine have light blue I-beam columns at regular intervals.
The station's only entrance/exit is a small mezzanine above the platforms towards the northern end. Inside fare control, it has two staircases going down to each platform, a newsstand, and a turnstile bank. Outside fare control, it has token booth and two street staircases leading up to either northern corners of Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street. The mezzanine walls have four different large frames of drawings and paintings. It is not known who the author or what the name of this artwork is.
This is the only two side platform station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line that allows a free transfer between directions. All stations to the south have their fare control areas on platform level.
Famous quotes containing the words sterling, street and/or avenue:
“The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
“The sturdy Irish arms that do the work are of more worth than oak or maple. Methinks I could look with equanimity upon a long street of Irish cabins, and pigs and children reveling in the genial Concord dirt; and I should still find my Walden Wood and Fair Haven in their tanned and happy faces.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .”
—D.H. (David Herbert)