NEW LOTS AVENUE STATION, East New York

by Kevin Walsh

The New Lots Avenue station is the eastern end of the line for #3 and #4 IRT trains. This view, from NYC Subways’ 1980s collection, shows a pair of graffitied rolling stock idling in the station waiting for their citybound run to begin.

Note that in the 1980s there were still a good number of enamel signs around, dating back to the 1910s and 1920s, but the Unimark signs employing Standard and Helvetica fonts were about to claim total sovereignty.

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4 comments

andy January 15, 2015 - 9:28 pm

According to http://www.nycsubway.org this station is unique. All other terminal stations on elevated structures end with bumper blocks; that is the tracks and structure do not continue beyond the station. At New Lots the tracks continue east (southbound in official subway operating parlance) and lead to a large yard and inspection barn that straddles Linden Boulevard. The MTA’s early plans, around 1968-69, envisioned extending revenue trains on this alignment terminating at a new station adjacent to the yards and geographically south of Linden Boulevard, to serve the Spring Creek area. This extension never happened.

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Jeff B. January 16, 2015 - 1:11 am

If the Exit sign fully followed Unimark’s 1970 NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual, the arrow should precede the word Exit. http://thestandardsmanual.com/page.html#68

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Bob Sklar January 22, 2015 - 11:55 am

There was also apparently a plan to extend the line further east along New Lots Av. See the link below.

http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/?z=10&p=1016951,182327&c=GIS2012

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Steven Steinberg December 10, 2021 - 7:51 pm

Why is New Lots Avenue IRT terminal station the only one without its neighborhood listed on subway signs?

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