Saratoga Avenue station (IRT New Lots Line)

For the former station on the BMT Fulton Street Line, see Saratoga Avenue (BMT Fulton Street Line).

Saratoga Avenue  ​​​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Station statistics
Address	Saratoga Avenue & Livonia Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11212
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Brownsville
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT New Lots Line
Services	2  (limited rush hour service in the reverse-peak direction) ​   3  (all except late nights) ​   4  (late nights, and limited rush hour service in the peak direction) ​   5  (limited a.m. rush hour service in the northbound direction only)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B7
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	November 22, 1920 (November 22, 1920)
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	941,203  2.3%
Rank	304 out of 423
Station succession
Next north	Template:NYCS next
Next south	Template:NYCS next
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

Saratoga Avenue is a station on the IRT New Lots Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Saratoga Avenue and Livonia Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when the 4 train takes over service. Occasional 2, 4 and 5 trains serve this station during rush hours.

Station layout

Track layout
to Sutter Av–Rutland Rd to Rockaway Av

Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound	← toward Harlem–148th Street (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road) ← toward Woodlawn late nights (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road) ← toward Wakefield–241st Street (select rush hour trips) (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road) ← toward Eastchester–Dyre Avenue (select rush hour trips) (Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road)
	Center trackway	→ No track or roadbed
	Southbound	→ ( late nights) toward New Lots Avenue (Rockaway Avenue) → → toward New Lots Avenue (select rush hour trips) (Rockaway Avenue) →
	Side platform
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance

This elevated station, opened on November 22, 1920, has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track that was never installed. Both platforms are longer than the standard IRT train length of 510 feet and have beige windscreens and brown and red canopies with green canopies with green frames and support columns for their entire length except for a small section at the west (railroad north) end. Here, they have waist-high black steel fences with two lampposts and one standard black station sign in white lettering in-between them. The windscreens and canopy frames also have black and white station signs.

The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks at the extreme east (railroad south) end. Inside fare control, it has a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, one staircase to the Manhattan-bound platform and two to the New Lots Avenue-bound one. One of those staircases is built adjacent to the platform instead of directly on it and connected to the station house with a wooden elevated passageway. Outside fare control, there is a turnstile bank, token booth, and three staircases going down to all corners of Saratoga and Livonia Avenues except the northeast one.

The station house has several enamel white-on-navy blue "To Street" porcelain signs directing passengers to the street stairs, one of which also has porcelain signs of the same style at the bottom of the canopy that says, "Interborough Rapid Transit Company: To All Trains."

External links

• Media related to Saratoga Avenue (IRT New Lots Line) at Wikimedia Commons
• nycsubway.org – Brooklyn IRT: Saratoga Avenue
• Station Reporter — 3 Train
• The Subway Nut — Saratoga Avenue Pictures
• Saratoga Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View