Avenue U is a standard trenched Sea Beach Line Station with two side platforms for the four-tracked line tucked beneath the backyards that encroach on the subway's open-cut. Both of these platforms have a series blue-green columns along the platform edge and peeling painted cream concrete holding up the platform’s ceilings.
The station has two entrances one at either end. Avenue T has only High-Turnstiles and is at the northern end leading out to the southern sidewalk, Avenue U has the full-time token booth and regular turnstiles leading out to the northern sidewalk, otherwise each station house is identical located between West 7th and West 8th Streets. At each station house the fare control equipment leads to a short staircase enclosed in metal panels and down to an overpass area where a single staircase leads from each side of it down to each of the platforms, via a short staircase going the opposite direction via an intermediate landing.
Photos 1-6: June 4, 2005; 7-32: August 11, 2009
A R68 N train leaves Avenue U
Looking across to houses along the Sea Beach Line, their backyards encroaching over the platforms.
The paint chipped ceiling of the Coney Island-bound platform at Avenue U
A R68 D train bypasses Avenue U, running non-stop to Coney Island because of track work on its West End Line, a fairly regular occurrence (Manhattan-bound trains will run normally)
A Manhattan-bound R68 N train leaves Avenue U
A Coney Island-bound N train enters Avenue U
A Manhattan-bound R143 N train stops at Avenue U
Looking across the Avenue U station with the houses almost on the tracks
One Yard has a hand painted 9/11 memorial flag on it as we look down the trenched Avenue U Station
The chipped ceiling of Avenue U
The narrow metal walled overpass passageway that leads to the Avenue T exit
The narrow staircase down to the Manhattan & Queens platform from the Avenue T entrance
Up another short flight of stairs to the Avenue U station house
The staircase entrance form the station house level for the two sets that lead down to the platform
A historic from city sign in the mosaic trim of the station house at Avenue U
A small electric heater inside the now quite bare with the removal of the turnstiles station house at Avenue U
The automated fare equipment in the Avenue T station house
More emptiness of the Avenue T station house
An older painted metal High Exit Turnstile, and a newer stainless steel High Entrance turnstile
The paint chipping exterior of the Avenue T station house, with the windows covered in screens to avoid breakages
Last Updated: June 4, 2022
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