18 Avenue has the standard design of two entrances, one at either end with two concrete dilapidated side platforms, canopied and tucked beneath the buildings of Mapleton, in the open cut of the Sea Beach Line. The station was rebuilt during a multi-year construction project that saw it receiving service only in one direction from 2016 through 2019. This included giving the platforms a cleaner, no longer dilapidated, more uniform cream colored appearance.
The entrance to 18 Avenue is at the east end of the station and contains the full time token both and turnstiles, in the standard concrete station house above the tracks, it leads out to the east side of its respective street.
The other, eastern entrance contains only high turnstile equipment in its own station house and leads out to the west side of 17 Avenue. The interior of this station house was completely gutted and rebuilt with most of it now non-public rooms, the walls are unusually tiled and a yellow-cream color with a low turquoise and red lower line, and trim line. Each station entrance has only one staircase down to each platform that leads to an enclosed overpass and the entrance to the station house that is over the middle unused express tracks.
Photo 1-11: August 11, 2009; 12-32: December 30, 2010; 33-47: March 15, 2013; 48 & 49: October 18, 2018
The 18 Avenue entrance is tucked into storefronts
The original awning and tiling dangles above the few entrance doors to the 18 Avenue Station house
In front of the token booth passengers alight through the turnstiles
Inside fare control are some heaters for winter, benches and doors out to the metal sheeting enclosed overpass to the staircases down to the platforms
Signs for the two staircases down to the platforms at 18 Avenue
The staircase down to the Manhattan & Queens platform
Looking across to one of the platforms tucked beneath the property of the surrounding neighborhood
A passenger walks down the platform towards its 17 Avenue end
The concrete walls could use a paint job along the platform, typical of Sea Beach Line stations
Looking up a staircase to the dilapidated enclosed passageway up to the 17 Avenue exit
A R160 N train arrives at 18 Avenue
Passengers get off an N train at 18 Avenue
A Coney Island-bound R68 and Manhattan-bound R160 N trains pass entering and leaving a very snowy 18 Avenue
R160 #9078 leads a Manhattan-bound N train into 18 Avenue
Looking across the snowy midsection of 18 Avenue
A R160 N train goes beneath 17 Avenue and out of the station
The simple staircase up to the 17 Avenue exit at one end of the long platform
The little area before fare control in 17 Avenue's station house
Approaching the high turnstiles in 17 Avenue's now oversized station house
17 Avenue's station house there very few mosaics on the outside
Last Updated: June 21, 2022
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