New Utrecht Avenue (N) - The SubwayNut

The New Utrecht Avenue is a standard trenched Sea Beach Line Station with two side platforms for the four-tracked line tucked beneath buildings that are close to the subway's open-cut. The station before restorations from 2016 through 2019 contained a series of blue-green columns along the platform edge and peeling painted cream concrete holding up the platforms ceilings.

The station has two entrances one at either end, and the portion of the station around each entrance has good deal of the station in tunnels. At the eastern end of the station is the entrance from 15 Avenue. This exit is on the eastern side of 15 Avenue, meaning the platforms cross-under 15 Avenue in a tunnel before the station exit. It has a station house with only high turnstiles and TVMs with a lot of the house being wasted space leftover from the days when the entrance was staffed. There is a single staircase down to the extreme eastern end of each platform from this entrance after passengers travel through a bland concrete passageway. This exit requires entering passengers to turn 90 degrees to actually reach the station platform, since The renovation added windows looking down the tracks (the platforms have already eneded), just before each platform staircase.

The main full time entrance is located at New Utrecht Avenue at the eastern end of the station platforms, there are two staircases up to it from each platform, along the staircases are uniquely tiled green walls. This entrance is set back from the street a bit, and there is a bus loop around it. It is in the shadow of the West End lines elevated structure and a staircase leads up through the station house and out to a canopied but exposed walkway overpass (beneath the elevated structure) to its 62 Street Station. This station house and transfer were closed from 2015 to 2019 to be rebuilt and made wheelchair accessible, with a Free MetroCard 'via street' transfer added between the 15 Avenue headhouse and the secondary entrance to the D train station at 60 Street & 14 Avenue.

When the station house reopened the station was made fully wheelchair accessible, with two elevators added connecting each N train platform with the headhouse, with the elevator up from the Coney Island-bound platform continuing after making an intermediate landing at the station house to the D train's mezzanine above (connecting to two more D train platform elevators). The station house was made bigger with two extensions to the station house built for the elevators on each side to be directly over the platforms. These passageways to the elevator landings have very different looking light blue tiled walls, with a green modern trimline and lower accent line in the same locations as the historic tiles in the station house that were restored.
Photos 1-3: January 1, 2005; 4-6: December 9, 2005; 7-32: May 28, 2010; 33-54: December 28, 2010; 55-59: March 15, 2013; 60-82: October 8, 2018; 83-113: September 25, 2023;