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The Avenue U Station has two side platforms on the local tracks of the three tracked line. The middle track has never been used in passenger service but is used by non-revenue trains that have terminated or will originate at Kings Highway and need to access the Coney Island yard that has yard lead tracks just after the Avenue X station (where the middle track ends). The station's platforms are windscreened, and canopied for their entire lengths except for a small section at their northern ends. The canopy is held up by small-cantilevered beams that are also windscreened. These are all painted green.

For exits, the station has two. The 24-hour booth exit is at the northern end of the station. A single staircase leads down from each platform to a small station house where the turnstiles are and the token booth faces them. Staircases lead out of the station house in opposite directions one to the NE corner of McDonald Avenue and Avenue U, and one to the NW corner of McDonald Avenue and Village Road North, since this station house is above a very short block of McDonald Avenue.

There is a secondary unstaffed exit at the southern end of the station where the station house was closed and is no longer in passenger usage around 2006. Here a single staircase leads down from each platform to a High Exit Turnstile from the Coney Island-platform (making this an exit only exit), and a single staircase is down to a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile from the Manhattan-bound platform. These in turn lead to staircases down to street level on eitherside of McDonald Avenue just south of Gravesend Neck Road (locally called and signed in the station just as Neck Road, the same street that runs to the Brighton Line station just called Neck Road).
Photo 1-26: August 4, 2009

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