The New Lots Avenue Station is the terminus of trains on the Livonia Avenue elevated. The station has a single island platform, beyond the island platform the tracks continue no longer in revenue service, providing acress to the Livonia Avenue Yard, the only yard on the IRT that isn't the Lenox Terminal Yard or in the Bronx. This means the yard stays quite busy during rush hours with put-ins and take-outs, some deadheading, some in service starting at New Lots Avenue for all four IRT Express Lines (2,3,4,5) since this is the only yard at those train line's southern ends. This means during the AM rush hour two 5 trains, and one 2 train start at the station, five 2 trains return to the station to terminate between 8:52am and 10:48am, these same five trains originate at New Lots Avenue at the start of the PM rush hour between 3:42pm and 5:09pm. There are also a few 4 trains to and from New Lots Avenue, outside of the late night hours, when 4 trains replace 3 train service in Brooklyn.
The station itself is canopied for most of its length and has the usual assorted buildings and kiosks on it including crew-quarters and areas for the train car cleaners. There is a single exit towards the middle of the platform that is accessed by two staircases down to a small headhouse beneath the platform where either two High Exit Turnstiles or a bank of turnstiles facing the token booth lead to two street stairs on eitherside of Livonia Avenue right at the East side of Ashford Street. New Lots Avenue, the stations namesake street crosses Livonia Avenue at a diagonal just beyond the station's exits. The B15 bus to JFK Airport stops across New Lots Avneue south of the station.
1 & 2: November 21, 2004; 3-13: July 22, 2009; 14-20: February 1, 2013
Approaching the New Lots Avenue Station after a fan trip run into the Livonia Avenue yard, waiting for a R62 #3 train to begin another trip back into Manhattan and up to Lenox Terminal.
Looking out the window of the Low-Vs museum train, running on a fan trip as passengers reboard the train.
Passengers pour off an arriving #3 train and go down one of the two staircases to the station's exit at New Lots Avenue.
A sign that goes lengthwise across the single island platform at New Lots Avenue for the 3 train to 148 St, Manhattan via 7 Avenue Express, except Late Nights, and the side note of Late Nights 4 via Lex Av Local stops here.
A R142 train enters New Lots Avenue to enter service on the #2 line as a yard put-in just before the PM Rush Hour.
Looking down the narrow island platform at New Lots Avenue, crowded with employees a R62 #3 train is boarding passengers and a R142 put in from the yard enters the station.
The side of the New Lots Avenue headhouse beneath the elevated structure.
The bottom of one of two entrance staircases to New Lots Avenue.
New Lots Avenue has very unusual station signs along the diagonal of the staircases banisters.
Another view of the headhouse tucked beneath the elevated structure at New Lots Avenue.
The actual street called New Lots Avenue that runs at a diagonal, the elevated structure that continues down and into the Livonia Avenue Yard is also visible in this view.
A diagonal New Lots Avenue Station sign on an entrance staircase says 1/4. Someone has ripped off the sticker that said 2 and exposed the bullet of the 1 train that served the station for the year after the September 11th Attacks.
A final view beneath the el at New Lots Avenue, the two staircases down from the station's headhouse are on the opposite end from this picture.
Getting off a terminating train on Track 1
An older font platform sign
One of two streetstairs down to the small mezzanine
Sign for the B15 to JFK Airport approaching the turnstiles
The two New Lots Avenue entrance staircases
Waiting for the B15 under a train terminating above
The B15's stop is directly across from the station
Last Updated: March 10, 2023
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