History
Utica Avenue 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. Although an express station, it was served solely by the A, which ran local on the line at the time with express portions in Manhattan on its way to Inwood – 207th Street. In 1944, the CC began running along the line, making local stops in the peak rush hour direction only, allowing the A to run as an express during those hours.
Five years later, the CC and the E switched terminals (the CC now ran to the Hudson Terminal and the E to Euclid Avenue) a pattern that would last throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The CC and the E once again switched terminals (the A had now run express full-time on the line apart from late nights). By this time the E had been extended all the way to Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street and the CC similarly ran there. In 1985, the MTA eliminated double-lettered trains, leaving only the A and C to serve Utica Avenue and seven years after that, the C was reduced to Euclid Avenue, where it terminates today.
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