Saratoga Avenue is a station on the IRT New Lots Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Saratoga Avenue and Livonia Avenue in Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when it is replaced by the 4 train. Occasional 2, 4 and 5 trains serve this station during rush hours.
This elevated station, opened on December 24, 1920, has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track that was never installed. Both platforms are longer than the standard IRT train length of 550 feet and have beige windscreens and brown and red canopies with green canopies with green frames and support columns for their entire length except for a small section at the west (railroad north) end. Here, they have waist-high black steel fences with two lampposts and one standard black station sign in white lettering in-between them. The windscreens and canopy frames also have black and white station signs.
The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks at the extreme east (railroad south) end. Inside fare control, it has a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, one staircase to the Manhattan-bound platform and two to the New Lots Avenue-bound one. One of those staircases is built adjacent to the platform instead of directly on it and connected to the station house with a wooden elevated passageway. Outside fare control, there is a turnstile bank, token booth, and three staircases going down to all corners of Saratoga and Linovia Avenues except the northeast one.
The station house has several enamel white-on-navy blue "To Street" porcelain signs directing passengers to the street stairs, one of which also has porcelain signs of the same style at the bottom of the canopy that says, "Interborough Rapid Transit Company: To All Trains."
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