Kingston–Throop Avenues
Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Fulton Street between Kingston Avenue & Throop Avenue Brooklyn, New York
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Bedford–Stuyvesant
Coordinates	40°40′47″N73°56′26″W / 40.679857°N 73.940606°W /40.679857; -73.940606
Division	B (IND)[1]
Line	IND Fulton Street Line
Services	A  (late nights) ​  C  (all except late nights)
Transit	NYCT Bus:B15,B25,B43
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	April 9, 1936; 89 years ago (1936-04-09)[2]
Traffic
2024	1,541,318[3]  6.7%
Rank	207 out of 423[3]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Nostrand Avenue A  ​C  toward168th Street Local Utica Avenue 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 toNostrand Avenue toUtica Avenue
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only

TheKingston–Throop Avenues station is a localstation on theIND Fulton Street Line of theNew York City Subway. Located onFulton Street between Kingston and Throop Avenues inBedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by theC train at all times except nights, when theA train takes over service.

The Kingston–Throop Avenues station was constructed as part of the IND Fulton Street Line, the main line of the city-ownedIndependent Subway System (IND)'s main line fromDowntown Brooklyn to southern Queens.^[4] The groundbreaking for the line was held on April 16, 1929, at Fulton Street and Arlington Place.^[5] This station opened on April 9, 1936, as part of an extension of theIndependent Subway System (IND) from its previous Brooklyn terminus atJay Street–Borough Hall, which opened three years earlier, toRockaway Avenue.^[2] The new IND subway replaced theBMT Fulton Street Elevated, and this station replaced itsBrooklyn–Tompkins Avenues station, which closed on May 31, 1940.^[6]

Under the 2015–2019Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Plan, the station, along with thirty other New York City Subway stations, were to have undergone a complete overhaul and would have been entirely closed for up to six months. Updates would include cellular service, Wi-Fi, charging stations, improved signage, and improved station lighting.^[7][8][9] However, most of these renovations are being deferred until the 2020–2024 Capital Program due to a lack of funding.^[10]

Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance
Platform level	Side platform
	Westbound local	← toward168th Street(Nostrand Avenue) ← towardInwood–207th Street late nights(Nostrand Avenue)
	Westbound express	← does not stop here
	Eastbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Eastbound local	→ towardEuclid Avenue(Utica Avenue) → → towardFar Rockaway–Mott Avenue late nights(Utica Avenue) →
	Side platform

This underground station has four tracks and two noticeably offsetside platforms, with the southbound platform located roughly 300 feet further west (railroad north) than the northbound platform. The two center tracks are used by the Aexpress train during daytime hours. Both platforms have a butterscotch yellow trim line with a mustard brown border and mosaic name tablets reading KINGSTON - THROOP AV." in whitesans serif lettering on two lines on a mustard brown background and butterscotch yellow border. Small tile captions alternating between "KINGSTON" and "THROOP" in white lettering on a black background run below the trim line, and directional captions in the same style are present below some of the name tablets. The platforms are column-less except for a few dark yellowI-beam ones nearfare control.^{[citation needed]}

Each platform has one same-levelfare control area. The one on theEuclid Avenue- and Queens-bound platform is at the extreme west (railroad north) end and has a bank of threeturnstiles, and two staircases going up to each southern corners of Fulton Street and Kingston Avenue. The one on the Manhattan-bound platform is at the center and has a bank of four turnstiles, a full-time token booth, and two staircases going up to either northern corners of Fulton Street and Throop Avenue.^[11]

This station was the site of a 1995 robbery that killed the token booth clerk, 50-year-old Harry Kaufman. Robbers squirtedaccelerant into the booth on the Euclid Avenue-bound platform and set the fumes alight with a match, causing an explosion that blew out the glass and deformed the booth. The incident drew national attention due to allegations that the movieMoney Train (1995) inspired the murder. The allegations were unfounded and the movie's producer,Columbia Pictures, claimed that the scenes were inspired by an earlier event, in 1988, where another token booth clerk was killed in the same fashion.^[12][13][14]

• Brooklyn Children's Museum
• Restoration Plaza

Wikimedia Commons has media related toKingston–Throop Avenues (IND Fulton Street Line).

• nycsubway.org –IND Fulton: Kingston/Throop Aves
• Station Reporter —C Train
• The Subway Nut —Kingston–Throop Avenues Pictures
• Kingston Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Throop Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View

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

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