Lafayette Avenue
Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	South Portland Avenue & Fulton Street Brooklyn, New York (main station entrance)
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Fort Greene
Coordinates	40°41′11″N73°58′28″W / 40.686268°N 73.974466°W /40.686268; -73.974466
Division	B (IND)[1]
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (late nights) ​  C  (all except late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus:B25,B26,B52
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 89 years ago (1936-04-09)[2]
Traffic
2024	1,365,749[3]  9%
Rank	233 out of 423[3]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets A  ​C  toward168th Street Local Clinton–Washington Avenues A  ​C  towardEuclid Avenue
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend toHoyt–Schermerhorn Streets toClinton–Washington Avenues
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only

TheLafayette Avenue station is a localstation on theIND Fulton Street Line of theNew York City Subway. Located under Lafayette Avenue andFulton Street inBrooklyn, it is served by theC train at all times except nights, when theA train takes over service.

Despite the station's name, there are no entrances on Lafayette Avenue; the nearest entrance is a block away.

This underground station opened on April 9, 1936, and replaced theBMT Fulton Street El.^[2] TheLafayette Avenue El station, which was formerly above the current subway station, closed on May 31, 1940.^[4]

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent,MetroCard machines
Platform level	Side platform
	Westbound local	← toward168th Street(Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets) ← towardInwood–207th Street late nights(Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets)
	Westbound express	← does not stop here
	Eastbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Eastbound local	→ towardEuclid Avenue(Clinton–Washington Avenues) → → towardFar Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights(Clinton–Washington Avenues) →
	Side platform

This station has four tracks and twoside platforms. Both platforms have stairs that lead up to a longmezzanine andfare control. There is no free crossover or crossunder between the two platforms, due to the shape of the mezzanine's fare control area.

Both platform walls have a light green trim line with a dark green border and mosaic name tablets reading "LAFAYETTE AVE." in whitesans-serif lettering on a dark green background with light green border. Small tile captions reading "LAFAYETTE" in white lettering on a black background run below the trim line. Emerald green I-beam columns run along the station mezzanine, but none are present at platform level.

East of this station is a storage/lay up track between the two express tracks. The west end connects to the northbound express track, and the east end connects to the southbound express track, so trains must reverse in order to enter the layup track. At both ends, the storage/lay up track also ends atbumper blocks. There are also switches in both directions from the respective local to the respective express tracks; however, express trains cannot switch to the local tracks at these switches.^[5]

The station is located very close to theFulton Street station on theIND Crosstown Line. Passengers on northbound local trains can see the platforms of the station on the right just after leaving Lafayette Avenue, as well as the Crosstown Line's northbound track through openings in the curtain walls. There is an employee-only connection between the two stations via the subway tunnels.

All exits serve both platforms. At the west end, there are stairs to all four corners of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue.^[6] At the east end, there are stairs to four out of the six corners of the intersection of Fulton Street, South Oxford Street, and Hanson Place. There are two stairs to the northern corner, one to the northeastern (via a passageway), one to the southeastern, and one to the southwestern.^[6]

• Barclays Center^[6]
• Brooklyn Academy of Music^[6]
• Brooklyn Technical High School^[6]
• Fort Greene Park^[6]
• Irondale Center^[6]
• Mark Morris Dance Center^[6]
• MoCADA^[6]

Wikimedia Commons has media related toLafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line).

• nycsubway.org –IND Fulton: Lafayette Avenue
• Station Reporter —C Train
• The Subway Nut —Lafayette Avenue Pictures
• Portland Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Oxford Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Hanson Place entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Greene Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View

• IND Fulton Street Line stations
• New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1936
• 1936 establishments in New York City
• Fort Greene, Brooklyn

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